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Dark Dealings Discredit Nobel Peace Prize
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10715 |
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CURRENT ISSUES
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1 / 1986 |
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Claudio Campuzano
Claudio Campuzano is a nationally published writer of news
analysis and commentary in both English and Spanish language
publications. He lives and works in New York City. |
At his "homecoming" press conference in Moscow--complete with his psychiatrist-in-attendance--"Double Dipper Defector" Vitaly Yurchenko testified to his suffering before his "escape".
Perhaps your newspaper of choice spared you the gory details but the CIA not only forced him to sunbathe, it also made him "go for sports; even play golf."
Worse still a CIA official took him to a "French restaurant" said Yurchenko and "forced me to eat French food in Georgetown…I was at the end of my tether--it was freedom or death."
For the bewildered journalists there was an explanation from Dr. Nikolai Zharikov, a physician and member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. According to his diagnosis, Yurchenko suffered "an acute organic damage of the brain" as a result of having been fed "psychotropic drugs" and now showed signs of emotional instability including "special psychotic states." He also had trouble with motor functions and cried easily, the doctor said.
Enough Soviet officials were present at the press conference to make sure everybody got it right, therefore the good doctor must have known what he was doing when he publicly destroyed with such thoroughness his patient's credibility. Yurchenko's future seems to be ordained. It's not back to the KGB for him but rather down to the Soviet Institute of Psychiatry which is where problem personalities--be it political dissidents or confused spies--are straightened out.
There Yurchenko is bound to run into
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