European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 17, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Speakers were Wetenko s principal contacts during the Early period of his defection All of whom showed extraordinary sensitivity in preparing him Lor the difficult transition to an alien culture. By selecting in a top of the line soviet Jet lighter Belenko had made an inestimable contribution to . Intelligence and his hosts responded according to Barren by establishing an irrevocable Trust that would provide him with a generous income for the rest of his life. But Barren s account also dramatizes the difficulty even the Best treated defectors have in making the adjustment to life in America. Many americans assume that East bloc defectors assimilate easily into the american mainstream Seldom giving a second thought As to the Wisdom of their decision to abandon Lite under marxism. Belenko s experience As Well As that of Many others suggests that Assumption is profoundly mistaken. Belenko was indeed dazzled by almost everything about America its abundance its Freedom its doctors. At the outset when he went to a supermarket in a Small Virginia town and saw the mountains of food he was so astonished that he thou Jet it was a Cia showplace set up exclusively for foreign visitors. For All that during one traumatic period Belenko slopped just Short of rejecting America and returning to the soviet Union. For a time the extravagant luxuries of America made it seem to Belenko like an alien planet where he could never be a Normal inhabitant Barron wrote. Primordial impulses seized and held and pushed him and he could not resist them Barron related. He wanted to feel the mud of the streets smell the. Stink in which he had grown up be among the desolate old huts hear russian be in the land of his birth his people his  in California he decided to re defect and he began a Cross country drive to the soviet embassy in Washington. It was t until he was two hours away from his destination that he recognized that re defection was Folly. Instead of the embassy according to Barron Belenko went to the Home of a Cia Case officer in Trgina. Jameson said that nowadays Belenko no longer plagued by doubts is happily married and his life is spiritually and financially  he works in the aerospace Industry. Jameson said he Belenko example is a Model of How the Cia should treat defectors. The Cia seemed to have come a Long Way toward redeeming itself from the period in the Early 1960s, when it kept former Kab agent Yuri Nosenko incommunicado for More than two years on the suspicion than he was a soviet Plant rather than a defector. In the Cia s defense Jameson said Nosenko detention was not ordered by the Cia but by then Alloney general Robert f. Kennedy. Like other experts interviewed for this article Jameson is mystified by the Cia s handling of Yurchenko. In the Yurchenko Case the Central role of a figure of authority Confidence and Friendship does not appear Viktor Belenko soviet Pilot who landed Hii super secret fighter plane in Japan surrounded by Security Gentt. To have been occupied Jameson said. Few analysts accept Yurchenko s explanation that he was kidnapped and then drugged and tortured by the Cia during three horrible months before escaping to the soviet embassy on nov. 2. The consensus is that Yurchenko was the victim of Cia mishandling no russian speakers were assigned to him he claimed and also suffered from the same kind of yearnings Lor the motherland that brought Belenko to the Brink of re defection years earlier. Recalling his own experiences with the Cia Horodincu said i am absolutely too percent sympathetic with  Bui ii defectors find the Cia unreasonable they sometimes make unreasonable demands on the Cia too. According to one expert who asked not to tie identified a russian defector married an old generation russian immigrant several years ago and after the Union turned out to be a disaster the defector wrote Back to his Case officer demanding that he arrange a divorce and also to recover the  she had absconded  another defector tilled with a sense of sell importance left he was entitled to an audience with the president and to an invitation to address a joint session of Congress according to the source. Jameson pointed out that defectors sometimes face cultural biases in their adopted land. All americans Are sons and daughters of ancestors who immigrated and there is a common attitude that by god. My father or Grandfather had it Tough so Why should defectors have it any easier " he said. There is a consensus however that the Cia could do More than it has to ease the transition of detectors to Normal lives. Wallop a senator who has taken a special interest in the subject said the Cia has made a mistake in relegating defector resettlement duty to a dead end career  another expert said at the Cia taking care of defectors is about the worst Joi you can  officers assigned to such duties Lack training Are rotated frequently and their foreign language skills often Are limited he said. This expert As Well As Wallop said that resettlement should be yielded by the Cia to the Fri. A soviet defector Yelena Metr Khina said recently that her experience indicates Fri agents have shown Tai greater sensitivity to the needs of defectors than Cia officers. Three weeks before Yurchenko s defection Metr Khina said she suggested to the Fri that she meet with Yurchenko sensing that he might want the companionship of a compatriot. She said the Fri officers she approached responded enthusiastically but that she got no response rom the Cia. Metr Khina who detected from the soviet embassy in the late t970s. Also was disappointed with Cia treatment of her. Jameson said the Cia recommended that she become a Secretary even though she is an authentically Brilliant  ignoring that advice Jameson said. Metr Khina attended Wharton school of business completing her studies Well ahead of Lime even though she was caring for her two children. Wallop and the other experts agreed that the United states has an important National Security interest in encouraging East bloc defections. Wallop said one of the Tew deterrents to extremist behaviour by these countries such As promoting acts of terrorism is the knowledge that their agents might defect rather than carry out such activities. Barron said the Kab habitually warns russians serving Moscow abroad that should they defect the americans will squeeze you like a Lemon and once they have squeezed you dry they will throw you into the garbage like a  he added that unless the transition rom dependence on the Cia to Independence is accomplished adroitly the russian May eel that he is being thrown  the consequent sense of abandonment betrayal aimlessness and loneliness can cause disabling depression or destructive paranoid  the stars and stripes Page 15 uary17, 1986