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Soviet DiplomatsFor 'Espionage'fihlt;ireiit1£reWASHINGTON This conn- 0i try’s relations with Russia tookfi a sinister new turn today follow- ^ ing the expulsion of three Soviet ^ diplomats for “espionage and im- g: proper activities” and the retalia- rr tion ouster of two U.S. officialsin Moscow. P:Authorities reported that the ^ svidence of spying was “conclu- s\sive .. . , we • got the goods on clt; them and out they went.” si The State Department dis-closed the ouster moves late yes- q terdy at an unusual holiday news conference. I jTHE. DEPARTMENT mid Ru*- “ sia on Saturday demanded the ? “immediate departure” - of two a U.S. embassy officials in Moscowfor allegedly carrying on “espion-age work,” They • are Lt, Col. Howard L, Felchlin, New York, assistant military attache, and 2 Maj. 'Walter' McKinney, Santa11Criiz. Calif., assistant air attache. ?The United States flatly deniedthe charges in a diplomatic* note . Sunday andj in its announcement “ yesterday, the. State Department' ' charged that the action was» merely “in retaliation” for. the earlier expulsion of the three So-viet diplomats., - • rjIt then reported for the first “ time that Cmdr. Igor A. Amosov, assistant naval attache at the Soviet embassy here,, was expelled £ Feb. 8; Alexander P. Kovlyov, D secretary of the Soviet delegation °i to the United Nations, was ousted Feb. 10, and Lt, Col. Leonid E.j’,1 Pivnev, assistant-air attache here.M left for Moscow June 6. All were tl declared personally unacceptable because of their ‘'espionage ac-tivities. I*THE DEPARTMENT mid it;? had Jtepl the expulsions secret h until yesterday in the vain.hope h the Kremlin would not retaliate * against Americans in Moscow,The State Department would t* not guess why^ Felchlin and Me- . Kinney were picked as the scape- ™ goats for the Russians, But it was b recalled that the Soviet news- tl paper Trud on March 25 called c for their expulsion along with r Maj, Martin J. Manhoff, Bothel!, v Wash,, and Sgt. Eugene Williams, a
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Hayward, California, US
Tue, Jul 06, 1954
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