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U.S. REFUSES VISA
TO RUSSIAN
EMPLOYEE OF U.N.
NEW YORK, Sunday.
A Soviet member of the United
Nations Secretariat has been
barred from the United States on
the ground of attempted espion-
age
The United States mission to
the United Nations has announced
that a re-entry visa has been
refused to Nicolai Skvortsov an
assistant to Konstantin Zin
clerk who is Assistant Secretary
General of the United
Nations in charge of Security
Council affairs
Skvortsov is in Moscow on
leave
Zmchenko has also been on
leave in the Soviet Union for
some time
It has been reported that he
would not return to New York
The United States mission said
Skvoitsov was refused a visa
pending action by the United
Nations The
mission spokesman did not
elaborate on the charge of
attempted, espionage, at
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