The Shadow Dossier — The Defector Who Defected Back
In August 1985, a senior KGB officer named Vitaly Yurchenko, then serving in Soviet security assignments abroad, approached American officials in Rome and asked for asylum. He was, at the time, one of the highest-ranking KGB officers ever to defect to the United States, and CIA officers who debriefed him afterward considered his intelligence genuinely valuable.
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