TOKYO DISMISSES SOVIET KIDNAP CHARGE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600350040-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 27, 2001
• Sequence Number: 40
• Publication Date: April 15, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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TOKYO, April 1
anew Foreign Minis
today
dismissed Soviet eha
ges that
American intelligenc 6ulkta
had tried to kidnap a Soviet
diplomat here, but the diplo-
mat, Georgi Pokrovsky, said
the charges were true.
The Japanese said Pokrov-
sky had been involved in a
fight with two Americans, re-
portedly tourists, at the apart-
ment of a Colombian business-
man who lived in the same
building as Pokrovsky. The
fight occurred on March 17.
Pokrovsky, first secretary at
the Russian Embassy here,
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t e acts. When the people
read the Soviet protest note
: Colombian was taken ill out-
side the building where he
the police report as sayin
There was an exchange o
believe it." sky, who knew him, came by
(In Washington, a State De- and h elped .him to his apart-
partment spokesman said the
charges in the Soviet note of ment.
Wednesday "are totally false." When he opened the apart-
He said Japanese authorities ment door, Pokrovsky . saw
had reported the "altercation" two men inside and fled, ap-
but had dropped the matter parently frightened. The Co-
when investigation showed no lombian and the two men-lat-
basis for further action. The er identified as American tour-
spokesman said no American fists-stayed in the apart-
was involved, nor had there ment for 20 or 30 minutes and
been any request by Pokrov- then left.
sky for political asylum.). Outside, Pokrovskyj and two
Associated Press,
GEORGI POKROVSKY
ow u o
After hearing both stories, the
police decided nothing serious
had happened and sent them
all home, There was no men-
tion at that time of a kidnap-
ing attempt.
(The Russian note claimed
that an American diplomat
pretended to have a heart at-
tack and asked Pokrovsky to
help him to his apartment in
the building, where other
Americans tried to seize him.)
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