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- A drunk and a gun enthusiast, he had failed four CIA lie-detector tests and was ultimately fired. Yurchenko boarding a plane for Moscow at Dulles Airport on November 6, 1985, three months after he defected to the US—and days after defecting right back.
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Feb 18, 2018 · Yurchenko boarding a plane for Moscow at Dulles Airport on November 6, 1985, three months after he defected to the US—and days after defecting right back. Following up on Yurchenko’s tip, the FBI dispatched agents to confront Howard in Texas. He denied he had ever worked for the KGB—then fled.
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]
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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Dec 8, 1985 · December 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...
Nov 10, 1985 · Some U.S. officials say Yurchenko spilled valued information. Others say he gave and took little. Maybe he was just a bird that flew into the jet engine: a freak accident, not a systemic failure.
Jun 24, 2001 · In fact, Italian intelligence officials knew what had happened: Yurchenko, 50, one of the highest-ranking agents in the KGB, the Soviet intelligence organization, had defected to the West. He...
Nov 5, 1985 · Surrounded by smiling Soviet diplomats, Mr. Yurchenko told reporters he had been kidnapped in Rome last summer by American authorities, drugged and transported to the United States, where he was...
