SOVIET DIPLOMAT KILLED BY GUNMEN IN NEW DELHI

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000202030014-1
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• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 18, 2010
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: March 22, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHINGTON POST
22 March 1985
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Soviet, Diplomat single motorbike had been used in
the attack on Khitziche
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, Mlle hy' was aged 48, and had one son:
The moto otorbike approached the
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ell
rear of the Soviet envoy's car, and a`
single shot was, fired.. The. car'
? skidded to a halt, and more- shots-
In New were pumped into the vehicle from-
e~- the right side and front, Jog said at
a briefin
By John Fullerton
Reuter
NEW DELHI, March 21-Two
gunmen on a motorbike assassi-
nated a Soviet diplomat in his car
near
his
embassy
i
in the
Indian
caP- it
al today, and
Ind'
pan police
i
m me-
di
at
el launched searches of
places
Y
frequented
b
Afghan exiles
and
Y
Palestinians.
The killing followed the disap-
earance of another SovieP t diplomat
who vanished after an early morn-
ing
stroll in a Delhi park last Sun-
day.
bility of a link between this [shoot-
ing] and the missing Soviet di
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Perhaps there is a ]ink, Palestinian refugee and political
the
Delhi police ice
commissioner,
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exile
groups in
Delhi-as part in their',,
Jog said.. `