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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 . [1]
Feb 18, 2018 · The man’s name was Colonel Vitaly Yurchenko, of the KGB. American intelligence officers had already started debriefing him using a tape recorder. He didn’t need much prompting. 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 ...
Nov 5, 1985 · Soviet KGB officer Vitaly Yurchenko, whose defection on July 28 had been billed as the greatest American intelligence coup in 50 years, turned up suddenly Monday at the Soviet Embassy and charged ...
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Nov 9, 1985 · Mr. Yurchenko was married in 1958 and his first child, a daughter, was born in 1961. He adopted a son in 1969, and at the press conference this week, he referred to this child's adolescent ...
Jul 23, 2021 · On Aug. 1, Vitaly Yurchenko slipped into the U.S. Embassy in Rome with one goal: He wanted a new life. Frustrated by a stagnant spy career in Moscow, despairing over failed relationships with his w…
Dec 8, 1985 · The New Yorker, December 16, 1985 P. 37. In a Moscow press conference last week, Mr. Yurchenko rerevealed new details about his purported kidnapping by the CIA. Among other things, he charged that ...
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. The State Department ...
