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Vitaly Yurchenko
Vitaly Sergeyevich Yurchenko (; 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 allegedly defected to the United States during an assignment in Rome on August 1, 1985, arriving the following day.Alexander Kouzminov ''Biological Espionage: Special Operations of the Soviet and Russian Foreign Intelligence Services in the West'', Greenhill Books, 2006, , page 107 After providing the names of two U.S. intelligence officers as KGB agents, asserting that Yuri Nosenko was a true defector, and claiming that Lee Harvey Oswald was never recruited by the KGB, Yurchenko slipped away from the Americans Fake defection, and returned to the Soviets. Background Upon his defection to the United States, Yurchenko identified two American intelligence officers as KGB agents: Ronald Pelton and Edward Lee Howard. Pelton was later Conviction, convicted, while Howard fled to the Soviet Union before he could be questioned. ...
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Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet Union, it dissolved in 1991. During its existence, it was the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country by area, extending across Time in Russia, eleven time zones and sharing Geography of the Soviet Union#Borders and neighbors, borders with twelve countries, and the List of countries and dependencies by population, third-most populous country. An overall successor to the Russian Empire, it was nominally organized as a federal union of Republics of the Soviet Union, national republics, the largest and most populous of which was the Russian SFSR. In practice, Government of the Soviet Union, its government and Economy of the Soviet Union, economy were Soviet-type economic planning, highly centralized. As a one-party state go ...
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Aldrich Ames
Aldrich Hazen Ames (; born May 26, 1941) is an American former Central Intelligence Agency, CIA counterintelligence officer who was convicted of espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union and Russia in 1994. He is serving a life sentence, without the possibility of parole, in the Federal Correctional Institution, Terre Haute, Federal Correctional Institution in Terre Haute, Indiana, Terre Haute, Indiana. ''(Search result)'' Ames was known to have compromised more highly classified CIA assets than any other officer until Robert Hanssen, who was arrested seven years later in 2001. Early life and education Ames was born in River Falls, Wisconsin, on May 26, 1941, to Carleton Cecil Ames and Rachel Ames (' Aldrich). His father was a college lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, Wisconsin State College-River Falls, and his mother a high school English teacher. Aldrich was the eldest of three children and the only son. In 1952, his father began working with the Central Intel ...
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KGB Officers
The Committee for State Security (, ), abbreviated as KGB (, ; ) was the main security agency of the Soviet Union from 1954 to 1991. It was the direct successor of preceding Soviet secret police agencies including the Cheka, OGPU, and NKVD. Attached to the Council of Ministers, it was the chief government agency of "union-republican jurisdiction", carrying out internal security, foreign intelligence, counter-intelligence and secret police functions. Similar agencies operated in each of the republics of the Soviet Union aside from the Russian SFSR, where the KGB was headquartered, with many associated ministries, state committees and state commissions. The agency was a military service governed by army laws and regulations, in the same fashion as the Soviet Army or the MVD Internal Troops. While most of the KGB archives remain classified, two online documentary sources are available. Its main functions were foreign intelligence, counter-intelligence, operative-investigative a ...
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List Of KGB Defectors
This is a list of Soviet secret police officers and agents who have defected. See also * List of Cold War pilot defections * List of GRU defectors * List of Soviet and Eastern Bloc defectors * Petrov Affair References Further reading * Richelson, Jeffrey. (1999). The U.S. Intelligence Community: Fourth Edition ook WestView Press, {{ISBN, 978-0-8133-6893-1 * Soviet defectors Def KGB The Committee for State Security (, ), abbreviated as KGB (, ; ) was the main security agency of the Soviet Union from 1954 to 1991. It was the direct successor of preceding Soviet secret police agencies including the Cheka, Joint State Polit ... KGB defectors Soviet spies KGB defectors ...
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List Of Soviet And Eastern Bloc Defectors
Soon after the formation of the Soviet Union, emigration restrictions were put in place to keep citizens from leaving the various republics of the USSR, though some defections still occurred. During and after World War II, similar restrictions were put in place in non-Soviet countries of the Eastern Bloc, which consisted of the communist states of Central and Eastern Europe (except for non-aligned Yugoslavia). Until 1952, however, the Inner German border between East and West Germany could be easily crossed in most places. Accordingly, before 1961, most of that east–west flow took place between East and West Germany, with over 3.5 million East Germans emigrating to West Germany before 1961.Senate Chancellery, Governing Mayor of Berlin''The construction of the Berlin Wall'' states "Between 1945 and 1961, around 3.6 million people left the Soviet zone and East Berlin" On August 13, 1961, a barbed-wire barrier, which would become the Berlin Wall separating East and West Berlin, was ...
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John Anthony Walker
John Anthony Walker Jr. (July 28, 1937 – August 28, 2014) was a United States Navy chief warrant officer and communications specialist convicted of spying for the Soviet Union from 1967 to 1985 and sentenced to life in prison. In late 1985, Walker made a plea bargain with federal prosecutors, which required him to provide full details of his espionage activities and testify against his co-conspirator, former senior chief petty officer Jerry Whitworth. In exchange, prosecutors agreed to a lesser sentence for Walker's son, former Seaman Michael Walker, who was also involved in the spy ring. During his time as a Soviet spy, Walker helped the Soviets decipher more than one million encrypted naval messages, organizing a spy operation that ''The New York Times'' reported in 1987 "is sometimes described as the most damaging Soviet spy ring in history." After Walker's arrest, Caspar Weinberger, President Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Defense, concluded that the Soviet Unio ...
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Tennent H
Tennent is a surname, and may refer to: * Blair Tennent (1898–1976), New Zealand politician * David Hilt Tennent 1873–1941), American developmental biologist * Gilbert Tennent (1703–1764), Irish Presbyterian clergyman * H. M. Tennent (1879–1941), British theatre impresario * Hector Tennent (1842–1904), Australian cricketer * Hugh Tennent (1863–1890), Scottish brewer known for beginning the production of Wellpark Brewery's "Tennent's Lager" * James Emerson Tennent (1804–1869), British politician * John Tennent (other) * Madge Tennent (1889–1972), American artist of Hawaii * Peter Tennent, mayor of New Plymouth, New Zealand * William Tennent (1673–1746), Scottish-American Presbyterian clergyman * William Tennent III (1740–1777), Presbyterian clergyman and colonial patriot See also * Tennent, New Jersey * Tennent Caledonian or Tennent's, a brewery company in Glasgow * Tenant (other) Tenant may refer to: Real estate *Tenant, the hold ...
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Jeanne Vertefeuille
Jeanne Ruth Vertefeuille (December 23, 1932 – December 29, 2012) was a CIA officer who participated in a small team that investigated and uncovered the actions of Aldrich Ames, a notorious Cold War spy. Early life Born in New Haven, Connecticut, on December 23, 1932, Vertefeuille earned a bachelor's degree in history from the University of Connecticut in 1954, where she also learned German and French. She began her career as a typist for the Agency in 1954 and obtained promotions and expertise on the Soviet Union over several decades, serving in Ethiopia, Finland, and the Netherlands. Career In 1976, Vertefeuille wrote ''The GRU Today'', which was a study on the operations of the GRU, the Soviet Union's foreign military intelligence organisation. She was made the lead investigator of a small team looking at the high rate of Soviet double agent disappearances in 1986. As it became more clear to the team that there could be a mole in the organization, Vertefeuille worked to kee ...
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Sandra Grimes
Sandra Grimes is a former Central Intelligence Agency, CIA officer who participated in a small team that investigated and uncovered the actions of Aldrich Ames, a United States government, United States counter-intelligence, counterintelligence officer who was subsequently convicted of spying for the Soviet Union. Early life Grimes was born in August 1945 to a couple who met in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and worked together on the Manhattan Project. She went to school in Los Alamos, then left and did the rest of her schooling in Denver, Colorado. While in high school she enrolled in a course in Russian language, Russian, in which she excelled and gave her the encouragement to later major in Russian language at the University of Washington in Seattle. CIA career and Aldrich Ames In October 1966, a friend informed Grimes that a CIA recruiter was on campus, and told her she "would make a perfect spy." She subsequently interviewed with the CIA, and was hired as a GS-06 Intelligence Assi ...
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Bush School Of Government And Public Service
The Bush School of Government & Public Service is an academic college of Texas A&M University founded in 1997 under former President of the United States, President George H. W. Bush's philosophy that "public service is a noble calling." Since then, the Bush School has continued to reflect that notion in curriculum, research, and student experience and has become a leading international affairs, political science, and public affairs institution. The Bush School is located in the Robert H. '50 and Judy Ley Allen Building adjacent to the George Bush Presidential Library on the West Campus of Texas A&M University. The George Bush Presidential Library opened its doors in 1997 on of land donated by Texas A&M at the western edge of the campus. In 1995, Dr. Charles F. Hermann was hired as the Founding Director to build the Bush School; the first students started taking classes in Fall 1997. The school was initially a department inside the College of Liberal Arts but became an independe ...
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Stomach Ulcer
The stomach is a muscular, hollow organ in the upper gastrointestinal tract of humans and many other animals, including several invertebrates. The Ancient Greek name for the stomach is ''gaster'' which is used as ''gastric'' in medical terms related to the stomach. The stomach has a dilated structure and functions as a vital organ in the digestive system. The stomach is involved in the gastric phase of digestion, following the cephalic phase in which the sight and smell of food and the act of chewing are stimuli. In the stomach a chemical breakdown of food takes place by means of secreted digestive enzymes and gastric acid. It also plays a role in regulating gut microbiota, influencing digestion and overall health. The stomach is located between the esophagus and the small intestine. The pyloric sphincter controls the passage of partially digested food (chyme) from the stomach into the duodenum, the first and shortest part of the small intestine, where peristalsis takes ove ...
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Oleg Kalugin
Oleg Danilovich Kalugin (; born 6 September 1934) is a former KGB general (stripped of his rank and awards by a Russian Court decision in 2002). He was during a time, head of KGB political operations in the United States and later a critic of the agency. After being convicted of spying for the West in absentia during a trial in Moscow, he remained in the US and was sworn in as a citizen on 4 August 2003. Early life and career Born 6 September 1934, in Leningrad and son of an officer in the NKVD, Kalugin attended Leningrad State University and was recruited by the KGB, under the aegis of the First Chief Directorate (Foreign Intelligence). After training, he was sent to the United States, where he enrolled as a journalism student at Columbia University on a Fulbright scholarship in 1958, along with Aleksandr Yakovlev. In 1959, his photo appeared in a Newsweek article in which, identified as a 24-year-old student, he said: "I like Americans very much. But after seven months her ...
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