Mr. Shcharansky was. after all. perhaps the best known and most effective publicist of the problems of Soviet Jewry. First as a spokesman for the Jewish emigration movement (himself having been denied permission to emigrate) and later for a group of monitoring Soviet compliance with the Helsinki Accords. he became. thanks in part to his fluent English. a translator and trusted liaison man for Western correspondents and diplomats. There was never any question that his activities displeased Soviet authorities. he prudently took special precaution to stay within the limits of Soviet law. But the disclosure that his onetime roommate in Moscow had worked briefly for the CIA provided the longsought pretense for his arrest. on the charge of spying for the United States.
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