Italy orders out Russians
NZPA-Reuter Rome Italy has ordered a Soviet diplomat and the Rome office manager of the Soviet airline, Aeroflot, to leave the country, apparently for spying. Government sources said the two men had been asked to leave for
activities incompatible with their status, a phrase invariably meaning espionage or similar acts against the host country. Viktor Kopytine, a first secretary at the Soviet Embassy, had left Italy on Wednesday, the sources said.
The Soviet Embassy said there was no valid motive for the expulsions and blamed “circles who do not like the current positive trend in relations between the Soviet Union and Italy” for them. The Aeroflot office denied that its manager,
Andrei Sheluchin, had been expelled, but said he would return to Moscow at the end of his posting in a few days. Italian State television, R.A.1., said the two men had been ordered out “in a sensational new spy case”.
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Press, 7 February 1986, Page 6
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