EDITOR AT U.S. RADIO REAPPEARS IN SOVIET, ASSAILING THE WEST

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 7, 2011
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: April 29, 1986
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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~~ ON PAGEry~ NEW YORK TIMES
29 April 1986
Editor at U.S. Radi~o~
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MOSCOW. APcil 7t - ~~
after he v^aois6a~d in West Get:natry, ~'
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Mr. TUmamv, who was born m the ,
that he felt unwell, according to otti-
cials at Radio Liberty, which has its
Soviet Union 42 yeses ago aM detected
headquarters in Munich.
to the West is 196, saW ady that !>r
.lt the time, Mr. Tumanov was act-
had "lived thrargh a nightmare" fee
ing chief editor of Radio Liberty, lire
the last 21 years and that "my root .
.w: _,, _.,..~.._.. _.._...__ _..~_ _._.,~
igence o uers,
his disapQearanoe tram Wssiitb '
Feb. ~i and hb r'atiirtl to MaaoOw. '~
Mr. Tumanov was last seen in Mu-
nich on Feb. 25 after having left work
Seems Narsws ssrd Apfadsd .~ .
early the previous day complaining
denied that ha had bean kidnapped
forcibly brarsht back to the Soffit
Union.
When pressed to describe his retuta
to Moscow, Mr. Tlrmanov add. "Yp
have a right to raise gtrestiens, and.I
have a right not t0 answer." '
Mr. 'ILtnatrov seemed nervous acid
agitated, Pausing izecl~uY alod
breathing deeply as be read a prepared
statement and answered reporters'
questions at the Foreign Ministry pram
center.
Radio Liberty and its sister statia~.
Akencv.
Mr. 'ILmanov said "Res
an Ra io ree uro are a
lent rout or covert o ra ona a
e ousel ruon o er ist
countnes.
~. "I can sav confident(t that
the radio services' executives ^
nc ucica:aCU w u1C wC.1iL ul a.7oD when
he was in the Soviet Navy, jumping
ship in the Mediterranean and swim-
ming six miles to the Libyan coast, atr
cording to accounts provided this year
by Radio Liberty officials.
Mr. nimanov did not say what his
titatus was in the Soviet Union. De-
serters from the Soviet military Can be
tried for treasm_ and sentenced to
death. Radio Liberty officials said this
year that Mr. TLmarwv had been tried
and aentenoed to deaRh In abeemtia.
Retm'a and Condemn the Went
Mr. 'Ilrmaaov's news conference
marked the fourth time in recent years
that s promirrerit Soviet defector had
returned to Moscow am condemned
the west.
In 1!161 Oleg Bitty, a Soviet journalist
who defected is Britain, turned up in
in 1963 bsaying~ had been kidnapped
Y .agents.
Also in 1961. Svetlana A1Wuyeva,
Stalin's daughter. returned to the
Soviet Union after a 17- stay in the
West. Miss AlWuyeva ~ to the
United States this month.
Last November Vital S
ko a et once ent who do-
fecfe o~Wm
to oscow c ;~
Mr. 'Itirmanov Bald Radio Liberty's
"assets" loci "sale foreign oor-
rmPaodents accredited In Moacaw."
When pressed for details, Mr. Tuma-
~' names two former Moscow oorre-
c~ut cMhiet of t~Moscow ~~u
The New York Times.
Mr. 'ILtnanov said of Mr. Schme-
mam: "I dm't say he is employed. but
he.receivea material from us. His fa-
ther worked for many years for Radio
Mr. cluaemam, responding later in
~ trews conference, said ~ the aNy
Tlmes's Moscow bureaus was ba
R~arch~ Bulletln, to w~o almost
~r'Y American and Western news bu-
reau In Masoow subecribea.
Mr. Schmemann's late father, the
Rev. Aleiunder Schmemann, dean of
St. Vladimir's Ortbodoar Theological
Sbminary in Cr'eatwood, N.Y., had a
r'~ular Program on religigrs and cul-
tural subjects that was broadcast by
Radb Liberty.
STAT
STAT
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