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Vitaly Sergeyevich Yurchenko (Russian: Виталий Сергеевич Юрченко; born May 2, 1936) is a former high-ranking KGB disinformation officer in the Soviet Union. After 25 years of service in the KGB, he defected to the United States during an assignment in Rome on August 1, 1985, arriving the following day. [1]
Feb 18, 2018 · In a gush of Russian-accented English, the KGB colonel began to blurt out a number of astonishing Soviet secrets. The only problem for the Americans was slowing him down. After two or three hours of listening to Yurchenko, they decided to take a break.
Apr 18, 2005 · He was Vitaly Yurchenko, the Soviet KGB agent who had disappeared from a Rome street one sunny day last summer and turned up several weeks later as a defector in CIA hands.
Nov 9, 1985 · Glimpse of Soviet Intelligence. Titled ''Vitaly Sergeyevich Yurchenko,'' the document offers several intriguing glimpses at one of the Kremlin's most secret organizations. It cryptically notes...
May 9, 1994 · Aldrich Ames maintains KGB officer Vitaly Yurchenko genuinely defected to the United States in 1985, but espionage experts say even the views of Moscow's confessed spy inside the CIA won't resolve questions about the nature of Yurchenko's return to the Soviet Union.
Nov 5, 1985 · Vitaly Yurchenko, a K.G.B. officer described as one of the most senior Russian officials ever to defect to the West, announced today that he was returning to the Soviet Union.
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Feb 23, 1994 · Aldrich Hazen Ames, the highest-ranking active CIA official ever arrested as a Russian spy, disclosed to Moscow the identity of at least one U.S. agent, was involved in the debriefing of the...
