The World - News from March 10, 1986
An apparent Soviet defector now suspected of working for the KGB returned to the Soviet Union of his own free will after spending more than four months under the protection of West German counterintelligence, the magazine Der Spiegel said. The man was identified only as Skhuvalov, a high-ranking employee of a Soviet-West German trading company. The magazine added that the man alleged he was being held against his will by West German authorities.
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