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ning. He particularly targeted the recent visit of a 10-member Soviet delegation to the county. “They were professional Communist Party members — or members of the KGB (the Soviet secret police),” he assured his audiences.
Mr. Lezhnev bases his allegations on his own experience. As a member of the Moscow Symphony, he led a relatively prosperous existence. Yet, when the orchestra travelled outside the Soviet Union, he said, the. members were always watched by KGB agents, who accompanied them everywhere. At no time were they allowed to venture anywhere alone, and they always feared other members of the orchestra might be KGB informers.
He knows that first hand, as well. He described how he was recruited by the KGB to become an informer himself. He managed to escape the attempt, he said, by portraying himself as a “sensitive artist” whose music would suffer under the pressures of being an undercover agent.
Only by assuring the recruiter that he would, “of course,” be the very first to report any “anti-Soviet activity” by orchestra members was he able to allay any suspicions that he was not a loyal Soviet citizen himself. In addition, he said, he was forced to sign a release promising , that he would never reveal the re1 cruitment attempt.
Mr. Lezhnev credits the success of the ruse to his mother, who suggested the idea. “Just think,” he added, “of all the people who didn’t have such a smart mother, or who were too weak, and succumbed to the pressures of the secret police.”
When told of the freedom that the Soviet delegation seemed to enjoy during its visit in January, Mr.
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