The Mitrokhin Archive reveals that faced with American protests and the denunciation of the story by the international scientific community, however, Gorbachev and his advisors were clearly concerned that exposure of Soviet disinformation might damage the new Soviet image in the West.
Mitrochinov archív odhaľuje, že: čeliac americkým protestom a zavrhnutiu príbehu medzinárodnou vedeckou komunitou, sa Gorbačov a jeho poradcovia zjavne obávali, že odhalenie sovietskej dezinformácie by mohlo poškodiť nový sovietsky imidž na Západe.