References to George Krimsky:

The Moscow Correspondents: Reporting on Russia from the Revolution to Glasnost

by Whitman Bassow

 

p. 265

"AP Correspondent George Krimsky handed his blue U.S. passport to the young soldier in the control booth at Moscow's Sheremeteyovo Airport. With him was his wife, Paula, holding the hand of their eight-month-old daughter Alissa, who had taken her first steps that day. Krimsky, thirty-two, was abruptly ending a 2 1/2-year assignment on a melancholy note. He was being expelled for unspecified espionage activities and currency violations, the first American correspondent forced to leave in seven years and the first since the Helsinki Accords were signed in 1975..."


Memoirs

by Andrei Sakharov

p.459-460

"In December 1976, I gave a long interview on human rights and our family situation to the Associate Press correspondent, George Krimsky, one of the few journalists with whom we developed a personal relationship. Our friendship was probably one reason why Krimsky was attacked in the Soviet Press, had his car tires slashed, and suffered other harassment..."


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