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Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky (Russian: Оле́г Влади́мирович Пенько́вский; 23 April 1919 – 16 May 1963), codenamed Hero (by the CIA) and Yoga (by MI6) [1] was a Soviet military intelligence colonel during the late 1950s and early 1960s.
العربية; Azərbaycanca; تۆرکجه; Башҡортса; Беларуская; Български; Чӑвашла; Čeština; Deutsch; Eesti; Español; Esperanto
During the 1960s trend for action-adventure spy thrillers, it was a common practice for fictional spy organizations or their nemeses to employ names that were contrived acronyms. Sometimes these acronyms' expanded meanings made sense, but most of the time they were words incongruously crammed together for the mere purpose of obtaining a catchy ...
People who have acted as spies for the Russian Federation or the Russian Empire. Spies for the Soviet Union should be placed in Category:Soviet spies . Wikimedia Commons has media related to Spies from Russia .
Agent Larabee from the 1960s spy satire/parody sitcom, Get Smart; Agent Six from Generator Rex; Agent Smith of The Matrix (franchise) Agent Vinod, from the 1977 and 2012 Indian spy films of the same name; Alec Leamas, in the 1965 film The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Alexander Scott, from the TV series I Spy
Name Defection date Country of defection Comment Georgiy Sergeyevich Agabekov [1] 1930 France: Disappeared around August 1937. Body never recovered Ignace Reiss: July 1937 Switzerland: Gunned down by an NKVD hit squad on 4 September 1938 Walter Germanovich Krivitskiy [1] October 1937 France
The White House also ordered the closure of the Russian consulate in Seattle, based on the belief that the consulate was serving as a key base of operations for the Russian intelligence operations in the U.S. [42] U.S. officials at the time estimated over 100 Russian spies posing as diplomats in the United States prior to the order. [43]
Colonel Aleksandr Nikolayevich Poteyev [a] is the former Deputy Head of Directorate "S" of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service from 2000–2010.. Beginning around 1999, he began working secretly with the CIA, helping to reveal a hidden network of Russian spies operating within the United States, known as the Illegals Program.