234. Editorial Note

At 7 p.m., October 27, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents arrested Igor Y. Melekh, a Soviet employee of the U.N. Secretariat, on espionage charges. (Telegram 848 to Moscow, October 27; Department of State, Central Files, 313/10–2760) The Soviet Government protested this action orally and in writing to U.N. Secretary-General Hammarskjöld and the U.S. Government. Documentation on the arrest, the Soviet protests, and the U.S. responses to them is ibid., 313 and 310