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Brown subsequently conceded that when he had " used the phrase ' an agent ' to describe someone who turned out to be I. F.

Stone ", that he understood the term, " agent " to mean " useful contact ," and that the " take any money " reference simply meant that Stone would not permit a Soviet employee to pick up the check for lunch then, or in the future, as had sometimes been done before.

He adds that New York trial lawyer and author Martin Garbus recounted that in September 1992, while at the Moscow Journalists Club, Kalugin had explained to him, " I have no proof that Stone was an agent.

I have no proof that Stone ever received any money from the KGB or the Russian government, I never gave Stone any money and was never involved with him as an agent.