The Nation - News from Feb. 9, 1989
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The director of a U.S.-Soviet cultural exchange group denied federal charges that he tried to conceal money provided by a Soviet organization the FBI has called a Communist Party front. Alan Thomson, 57, director or the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, was arrested in New York on an indictment charging that he tried to evade bank reporting requirements on $17,000 he received in Moscow from the U.S.S.R. Society for Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries.
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