Vitaly Yurchenko

Vitaly Sergeyevich Yurchenko
Виталий Сергеевич Юрченко
Born (1936-05-02) 2 May 1936 (age 88)
Soviet Union
AllegianceUSSR
AwardsOrder of the Red Star

Vitaly Sergeyevich Yurchenko (Russian: Виталий Сергеевич Юрченко; 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 defected to the United States during an assignment in Rome on August 1, 1985, arriving the following day.[1] After providing the names of two U.S. intelligence officers as KGB agents and claiming that Lee Harvey Oswald was never recruited by the KGB,[2] Yurchenko slipped away from the Americans and returned to the Soviets.

  1. ^ Alexander Kouzminov Biological Espionage: Special Operations of the Soviet and Russian Foreign Intelligence Services in the West, Greenhill Books, 2006, ISBN 1-85367-646-2, page 107
  2. ^ "Vitaly Yurchenko". UK Podcasts. Retrieved 2024-08-14.