RUDY MAXA'S DIARY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000504330003-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 24, 2012
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: July 1, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/01/24: CIA-RDP96-00965R000504330003-7 STAT
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1-W WASHINGTONIAN
July 1985
RUDY MA NS DIARY
Breaking with Arkadv: Soviet
defector Arkady Shevchenko is
getting rich with his best-selling
memoir, Breaking with Moscow.
but whatever became of Judy
Chavez, the woman who blew
his cover?
Shevchenko, the former high-
ranking Soviet diplomat to the
United Nations, lived under FBI
protection near the Shoreham
Hotel while the CIA debriefed
him in the late 1970s. To keep
Shevchenko company. one of his
G-men suggested he call an es-
cort service listed in the Yellow
Pages. The result: Judy Chavez.
a specialist in leather and whips.
Shevchenko became obsessed
with Chavez. showering her with
money and demanding more and
more of her time. But, wary of
growing FBI and CIA interest in
her, Chavez pulled a defection of
her own.
She told an NBC reporter
about her interesting client, then
invited Shevchenko to a lunch
where television cameras were
waiting. The Soviet defector ap-
peared that night on network
news, and for the CIA and Shev-
chenko, thejig was up.
Today Chavez is a New York-
er, living in a SoHo loft bought
with earnings from her paper-
back, The Defector's Mistress,
published after her brush with
notoriety. Two years ago she
married a Yugoslavian artist.
Has she read her ex-lover's
book? No. says Chavez. but she
does admit to having looked for
her name in the index. She's
there-Shevchenko devotes five
paragraphs to her.
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/01/24: CIA-RDP90-00965R000504330003-7