§ 66. Mr. Burdenasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement about the circumstances in which Dr. Vladimir Kachenko was removed from a Soviet plane at London Airport and subsequently handed over to Russian Embassy officials.
§ Mr. Roy JenkinsOn 16th September the Metropolitan Police learnt that a man had been forced into a car identified as one used by the Soviet Embassy in the Bayswater Road. A man was later seen to be resisting attempts to place him on a Soviet aircraft. He told British officials that he did not wish to travel in that aircraft, hut wanted to speak privately to them. He was therefore escorted from the aircraft and placed under medical care. He later expressed a wish to return to his own country and I was advised that this was desirable on medical grounds and that he was capable of making a rational decision on the matter. He was444W therefore taken on 18th September to the Soviet Embassy, who arranged his return to Moscow.