In the 1980s , Fuisz was involved in a number of business ventures in the Soviet Union through Leopoldina Import-Export Inc. , an international business consulting firm , and Folkon , Ltd. , an oil exploration company . Working with a young Mikhail Khodorkovsky , then the head of the Young Communist League , Fuisz exported computers and other electronics to the Soviet Union through the Center for Scientific and Technical Creativity of the Youth , and he would later claim that his business helped to supply computers to the KGB . In 1988 , Fuisz was approached by Yuri Dubinin , the Soviet ambassador to the United States , to set up a modeling agency that would prepare young Soviet models for American markets . The first model Fuisz was to oversee was Yulia Sukhanova , the first-ever Miss USSR , but hard-liners in the Moscow City Council obstructed Fuisz 's efforts to secure Sukhanova 's visa . With Khodorkovsky 's assistance , he was able to smuggle Sukhanova out of the country , though upon reaching the U.S. she cut ties with Fuisz after a dispute over his commissions . In the first of two depositions regarding Fuisz 's knowledge of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing , held in December 2000 , Fuisz was prohibited from answering questions regarding the relationship between his Russian businesses and the Central Intelligence Agency – when asked if Folkon did any work for the CIA , whether it received any money from the CIA , or whether there were any links between the CIA and any of the companies operated by Fuisz , U.S. Attorney ( DOJ ) Anthony Coppolino raised objections precluding Fuisz 's testimony on the grounds of state secrets privilege . In the second deposition , held in January 2001 , when asked to describe his interactions with high-level Soviet officials , Fuisz claimed to have difficulty separating information gained in his capacity as director of the modeling agency from information gained in " his employment by the government " , and that he was " prohibited by a contract with the government " from providing further clarification
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