Assistance From Soviet Defectors

EDM number 379 in 1994-95, proposed by Rupert Allason on 12/01/1995.

That this House applauds all former members of hostile intelligence agencies opting to disclose the identities of agents of influence who operated under their control during the Cold War; notes that a former British intelligence officer, Mr Brian Crozier, has reported that a senior KGB defector in London has named certain individuals as having been 'confidential contacts' of the Soviet Embassy in London; and urges Mr Yuri Shvets to reveal the true identity of the British journalist he ran while working for the KGB under diplomatic cover at the Soviet Embassy in Washington DC. (Relevant registered interest declared).

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