Talk:Georgi Bolshakov

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Article needs clarification. The term 'spy' implies covert intelligence gathering but the rest of the information implies that this man was assigned to the Embassy of the USSR. This suggests that he was an intelligence officer and operated overtly. This would be strongly supported by information that he was an accredited diplomat. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.153.252.31 (talk) 15:10, 27 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A simple Google search indicates that the man was a journalist. There are several photographs available on the Library of Congress web site. He was unlikely to be an accredited diplomat. Journalists are covert gatherers of intelligence by definition and a USSR-based journalists was undoubtedly on the FBI counterintelligence radar. The Russians would be unlikely to use such a resource as a spy when they had accredited diplomats in the intelligence establishment who were protected by diplomatic immunity. They also had a significant establishment of agents in place at the time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.153.252.31 (talk) 15:21, 27 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]