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Colonel. Codename. YOGA, HERO. Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky (Russian: Олег Владимирович Пеньковский; 23 April 1919 – 16 May 1963), codenamed Hero (by the CIA) and Yoga (by MI6) [ 1 ] was a Soviet military intelligence (GRU) colonel during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Penkovsky informed the United States and the ...
Anna Chapman. Anna Vasilyevna Chapman (‹See Tfd› Russian: А́нна Васи́льевна Ча́пман; born Anna Vasilyevna Kushchenko, 23 February 1982) is a Russian intelligence agent, media personality, and model who was arrested in the United States on 27 June 2010 as part of the Illegals Program, a Russian spy ring. At the time of ...
After the transition from the Soviet Union to the Russian Federation, new discoveries were made about Soviet-era espionage. The Venona project , declassified in 1995 by the Moynihan Commission , contained extensive evidence of the activities of Soviet spy networks in America, [ 10 ] as did the Mitrokhin Archive revealed from 1992-1999.
Alexander Valterovich Litvinenko[ a ] (30 August 1962 [ 2 ] or 4 December 1962 [ 3 ] – 23 November 2006) was a British-naturalised Russian defector and former officer of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) who specialised in tackling organised crime. [ 1 ][ 4 ] A prominent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, he advised British ...
Oleg Antonovich Gordievsky, CMG (Оле́г Анто́нович Гордие́вский; born 10 October 1938) is a former colonel of the KGB who became KGB resident-designate (rezident) and bureau chief in London. He was a double agent, providing information to the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) from 1974 to 1985. [2] After being ...
Elizabeth Terrill Bentley (January 1, 1908 – December 3, 1963) was an American NKVD spymaster, who was recruited from within the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). She served the Soviet Union as the primary handler of multiple highly placed moles within both the United States Federal Government and the Office of Strategic Services from 1938 to 1945.
G. Robertson. Graysuit. "B". Robert Philip Hanssen (April 18, 1944 – June 5, 2023) was an American Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services against the United States from 1979 to 2001. His espionage was described by the Department of Justice as "possibly the worst intelligence disaster ...
For other people with the same name, see John 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. [ 2 ] In late 1985, Walker made a plea bargain with federal ...