Bulgaria: Name That Tune

Bulgaria's Ivan-Assen Hristov Georgiev, counselor of the Bulgarian mission to the United Nations from 1956 until 1961, was so successfully obscure that scarcely any of his diplomatic colleagues missed him when he returned home from Manhattan. Last week the man no body remembered was the man everyone was talking about.

On trial in a crowded Sofia court room, Georgiev, 56, confessed to a double life of spying for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, which he said provided him with $200,000, three secret bank accounts in Switzerland, and a harem of mistresses at...

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