The Strange Cases of Igor Kochnov and Vitaliy Yurchenko . . .
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IGOR KOCHNOV KGB Colonel Igor Kochnov, posted temporarily at the Soviet embassy in Washington, called Deputy Director of CIA (soon to be Director) Richard Helms at home on a Sunday morning in June 1966 and offered to spy for the CIA. CIA’s chief of counterintelligence, James Angleton, believing that Kochnov was a “plant” and fearing that the Soviet division was penetrated by a “mole,” decided to “play” him back against the KGB by having his confidant, mentor and mole-hunting boss, probable KGB “mole” Bruce Solie from the Office of Security, be Kochnov’s CIA case officer but didn’t tell him he thought Kochnov was fake.
The Strange Cases of Igor Kochnov and Vitaliy Yurchenko . . .
The Strange Cases of Igor Kochnov and Vitaliy…
The Strange Cases of Igor Kochnov and Vitaliy Yurchenko . . .
IGOR KOCHNOV KGB Colonel Igor Kochnov, posted temporarily at the Soviet embassy in Washington, called Deputy Director of CIA (soon to be Director) Richard Helms at home on a Sunday morning in June 1966 and offered to spy for the CIA. CIA’s chief of counterintelligence, James Angleton, believing that Kochnov was a “plant” and fearing that the Soviet division was penetrated by a “mole,” decided to “play” him back against the KGB by having his confidant, mentor and mole-hunting boss, probable KGB “mole” Bruce Solie from the Office of Security, be Kochnov’s CIA case officer but didn’t tell him he thought Kochnov was fake.