The World - News from March 11, 1986
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The Soviet Embassy in Washington denied reports that KGB agent Vitaly S. Yurchenko, who returned home after three months in CIA custody, was executed. Embassy spokesman Boris Malakov said Yurchenko “is alive, in good health and working in Moscow.” Yurchenko returned home in November after charging that he was abducted in Rome and held by the CIA. U.S. officials have insisted that Yurchenko was a genuine defector who changed his mind.
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