Once a respected electrical engineer who earned the Soviet Order of Merit for Patriotic Work. he lost his Job as a senior researcher after he and his wife. Valentina. applied to Join their two sons in Israel. His application was refused on th. gounds of "Regime Considerations. a common reason for the denial of visas to Jews. especially those who have served in the Soviet military. The Government claims that these people have had access to classified information. and that their presence abroad would be damaging to national security. Kochubievsky denies ever having had access to such material. The target of official harassment since his application to emigrate in 1978. his subsequent attempts to reestablish a "U.S.S.R.-Israel Friendship Society" and the publication of several of his works abroad resulted in his arrest in September 1982. Sentenced to 21h years for the "circulation of fabrications known to be false which defame the Soviet State and Social System." he is now imprisoned in a labor camp. Mr.
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