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FROM:   COMSAT Corporation
6560 Rock Spring Drive
Bethesda, MD 20817
PHONE:  301 214 3442
FAX:    301 214 7130
DATE:   April 24, 1997


For Immediate Release

COMSAT SUES FORMER CEO BRUCE CROCKETT, HERBERT DENTON, PROVIDENCE CAPITAL AND
WYSER-PRATTE, INC.


Bethesda, Md. -- COMSAT Corporation (NYSE:CQ) filed suit yesterday against
its former chief executive officer, Bruce L. Crockett, alleging a conspiracy
linking him with Herbert Denton, Providence Capital, Inc. and Wyser-Pratte,
Inc., who have threatened COMSAT with a proxy contest.

Also named as defendants are two entities that Denton and  Wyser-Pratte are
using in their  proxy  effort,  Providence  Capital,  Inc.  and  Providence
Investors,  L.L.C., and a number of unidentified "John Does 1-15" with whom
they are allegedly aligned.

COMSAT's  suit  charges  that  the  defendants'   activities   violate  the
Communications  Satellite Act of 1962, a federal statute  governing COMSAT,
as well as a 1996  Termination  Agreement  in which  Crockett  agreed  with
COMSAT not to disparage,  compete with or disclose confidential information
about COMSAT to third parties.

The  Complaint,  filed in the  Virginia  federal  district  where  Crockett
resides,   reveals  heretofore  undisclosed  aspects  of  the  reasons  for
Crockett's  July 1996  departure  from  COMSAT.  It alleges  that  Crockett
resigned  to avoid an  imminent  firing by the Board  for  several  causes.
Listed in the  Complaint are the failure of his  diversification  strategy,
which has been the  source of most of the  criticism  COMSAT now faces from
shareholders who are threatening a proxy contest. Other reasons alleged are
Crockett's  violation of COMSAT policy in the course of efforts to make the
stock more attractive to speculative  investors and his virtual abandonment
of his managerial duties at COMSAT.

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The Complaint  states that COMSAT's  Board,  in order to implement a smooth
restructuring of COMSAT back to its core communications business, agreed in
a  termination  agreement  to  provide  Crockett  with  payments  and other
benefits in exchange for Crockett's agreement not to injure the corporation
by leaking  confidential  information,  by joining with  competitors  or by
disparaging the corporation and its leadership.

According  to  the  Complaint,  Crockett  has  violated  those  agreements,
motivated by over $2 million in potential  profits from a change of control
at COMSAT, by promises of help from the other defendants in securing future
employment, as well as by a desire for retribution. In these activities, he
is alleged to be working with Denton, Wyser-Pratte, Inc. and the Providence
defendants,  who are  described as fronts for a larger  unidentified  group
whose purpose allegedly is generating  short-term,  speculative  profits by
creating turmoil among COMSAT's shareholders by threatening a proxy contest
for control of COMSAT.

The Complaint  asserts that Denton's only  experience  with a business like
COMSAT was with a Russian  communications venture that attempted to compete
with a COMSAT company and went bankrupt in 1996. After that bankruptcy, the
Complaint asserts, Denton and his alleged co-conspirators returned to their
earlier  business  of  attempting  to  profit  by  trying  to  drive up the
short-term  price of COMSAT's stock in an effort to turn a quick profit for
themselves and others by creating market turmoil,  including  threatening a
proxy contest. The Complaint alleges that they are acting in concert with a
number of other,  similarly  motivated  investors  in  violation  of unique
limits  on  ownership  of more  than 10% of the  securities  of  COMSAT,  a
provision of the federal Communications  Satellite Act of 1962, pursuant to
which COMSAT was created and is  regulated.  This is alleged to  constitute
both tortious  interference  with  Crockett's  termination  agreement  with
COMSAT  and  a   conspiracy   to  violate   both  that   contract  and  the
Communications  Satellite  Act.  In the  Complaint,  COMSAT  seeks over $20
million in damages,  which can be trebled under applicable  conspiracy law,
and injunctive relief, against all defendants, jointly and severally.

COMSAT Corporation (NYSE: CQ) is a global provider of communications
services and products.

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COMSAT Corporation ("COMSAT") and certain persons named below may be deemed
to be "participants" within the meaning of Regulation 14A under the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934.  The participants in this solicitation may include the
directors of COMSAT (C.J. Silas, Betty C. Alewine, Lucy Wilson Benson, Edwin
I. Colodny, Lawrence S. Eagleburger, Neal B. Freeman, Arthur Hauspurg, Caleb
B. Hurtt, Peter S. Knight, Peter W. Likins, Howard M. Love, Charles T. Manatt,
Robert G. Schwartz, and Dolores D. Wharton); the following executive officers
of COMSAT (Janet L. Dewar, Allen E. Flower, Paul G. Pizzani and Warren Y.
Zeger); and the following other employees of COMSAT (Gary S. Sharpe and
Charles H. Taylor, Jr.).  As of March 1, 1997, Betty C. Alewine and Warren Y.
Zeger beneficially owned 321,301 shares and 179,979 shares of COMSAT,
respectively (including shares subject to stock options exercisable within 60
days).  The remaining participants do not beneficially own, individually or in
the aggregate, in excess of 1% of COMSAT's equity securities.

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