Soviet-era Russian intelligence officer (born 1936)
Vitaly Sergeyevich Yurchenko Виталий Сергеевич Юрченко
Born
(1936-05-02) 2 May 1936 (age 88) Soviet Union
Allegiance
USSR
Awards
Order of the Red Star
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] After providing the names of two U.S. intelligence officers as KGB agents and claiming that Lee Harvey Oswald was never recruited by the KGB, Yurchenko slipped from the Americans and returned to the Soviets. It is clear that his initial defection was illegitimate, because Yurchenko was awarded the Order of the Red Star from the Soviet government for the successful "infiltration operation."[1]
^ abAlexander Kouzminov Biological Espionage: Special Operations of the Soviet and Russian Foreign Intelligence Services in the West, Greenhill Books, 2006, ISBN 1-85367-646-2, page 107
Vitaly Sergeyevich Yurchenko (Russian: Виталий Сергеевич Юрченко; born May 2, 1936) is a former high-ranking KGB disinformation officer in the Soviet Union...
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Penkovsky (considered fake by Peter Wright and James Angleton) and VitalyYurchenko. Examples of US fake defection operations include Operation Shocker...
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and it was concluded that the Soviets had taken it. In July 1985, VitalyYurchenko, a KGB colonel who was Pelton's initial contact in Washington, D.C...
name GT/COWL) provided a sample of the substance. Soviet defector VitalyYurchenko confirmed the chemical. In the summer of 1985 the powder began to appear...
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Soviet walk-in defector, VitalyYurchenko, who walked into the US Embassy in Rome and defected to the United States. While Yurchenko also identified Ronald...
officials. Robert Hanssen Harold James Nicholson John Anthony Walker VitalyYurchenko Fischer 2016, p. 52. Deutch 1995b. U.S. Senate Select Committee on...
Spy Ever to Defect to the U.S. 1991 ISBN 9780671726645 Pocket Books VitalyYurchenko Inside the CIA: Revealing the Secrets of the World's Most Powerful...
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002 Hungary Rudolf Dombi Roland Kökény 3:23.021 K–4 1000 m Russia VitalyYurchenko Vasily Pogreban Anton Vasilev Oleg Zhestkov 2:58.692 Czech Republic...
K-2 1000 m Germany Andreas Ihle Martin Hollstein 3:07.095 Russia VitalyYurchenko Vasily Pogreban 3:07.827 Hungary Roland Kökény Rudolf Dombi 3:08.205...
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behind Kara Eaker, McCusker, and Ragan Smith. Biles debuted a new vault: a Yurchenko with a half turn onto the table with a stretched salto forward off with...
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