ILO FIRES SOVIET OFFICIAL ALLEGED TO BE KGB AGENT [The Washington Post, 5 August 1978]

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• Publication Date: August 5, 1978
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JLO F....1r.'es.-So-viet Official
4ligi'd; to Be I{GB Agent
GENEVA (UPI)-The International
Labor; Organization said': yesterday it
fired 4" Soviet-official 'at the request
of the Swiss, government; which has
identified the man as a'KGB agent.
~Vyhlle Miagkov. worked, in the pron
fessional training sector, Bukreyev
had' an extremely influential position
as. director- of the publications, which-
gave him control, over all of the- agen
Western governments: . have ex- .cy'a? publications . distributed around
pressed increasing. concern that the the world.
Soviet, Union may be- seeking. to con- 'Switzerland, as host country, 'has
trol the .U.N. agency since the United the right to ask U.N. agencies to 'get
States quitit last. year..;+y . rid of any employe: believed to? be
An ILO spokesman said it fired risk to Swiss security. Thee request for.
Gregory. Miagkov,. 51, who. -was with made Mingkov's dismissal was . the first.
the agency for 10 years;. on Monday made public In many years:. .
He left Geneva -Thursday with his '' In June; Britain., and_ the United'
wife and two children on a flight to States protested the appointment oC
Moscow, Western officials said.. Geil Dneprovskys identified in London'
Swiss as a KGB colonel, to the sensitive pos.
government spokesmen said ition of personnel director at the U.N:
the. ILO was asked to get rid of the European headquarters here.
'Soviet functionary after Western inteI- Dneprovsky, currently at U.N. hen
ligence services learned he was a KGB quarters in New York, was to have;
officer.
taken up his Geneva job' July 15 bit;
Miagkov was the second Soviet offi- has not yet appeared.
cial at the agency to quit Geneva in Washington and London in their prt.
two months. In. June, Vladimir Bu test said the job, which allows total
kreyev rushed back to Moscow after ? access to confidential employe files, '
British reports identified ? him as d' 'should not go to anyone from either.a !
KGB agent. NATO or Warsaw Pact country.
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