Vitaliy Yurchenko, the KGB Colonel Who Wasn't Kidnapped by the CIA
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KGB Colonel Vitaliy Yurchenko defected to the U.S. in 1985 and redefected to the USSR three months later claiming he’d been drugged and kidnapped by the CIA in Rome. While he was in the U.S., Yurchenko said the only KGB penetration of the CIA he knew of was by “Robert” (Robert Lee Howard), a former CIA trainee who he said had given Soviet intelligence enough information to enable it, by using some special tracking “spy dust,” to roll up the CIA’s Moscow spy network. He also said he had met with a red-haired former NSA employee (Ronald Pelton) in 1980 when he was working under diplomatic cover at the Soviet embassy in Washington, and that Washington Post reporter Dusko Doder was spying for the Kremlin.
Vitaliy Yurchenko, the KGB Colonel Who Wasn't Kidnapped by the CIA
Vitaliy Yurchenko, the KGB Colonel Who Wasn't…
Vitaliy Yurchenko, the KGB Colonel Who Wasn't Kidnapped by the CIA
KGB Colonel Vitaliy Yurchenko defected to the U.S. in 1985 and redefected to the USSR three months later claiming he’d been drugged and kidnapped by the CIA in Rome. While he was in the U.S., Yurchenko said the only KGB penetration of the CIA he knew of was by “Robert” (Robert Lee Howard), a former CIA trainee who he said had given Soviet intelligence enough information to enable it, by using some special tracking “spy dust,” to roll up the CIA’s Moscow spy network. He also said he had met with a red-haired former NSA employee (Ronald Pelton) in 1980 when he was working under diplomatic cover at the Soviet embassy in Washington, and that Washington Post reporter Dusko Doder was spying for the Kremlin.