Boris Yuzhin (born February 21, 1942[1]) is a former Soviet spy. Events 362 - Athanasius returns to Alexandria. 1245 - Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland Year 1942 ( MCMXLII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 He was a mole in the KGB, spying for the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the 1970s and 1980s before being caught and imprisoned. A mole (also called a defector in place, an informant and in the Mafia a rat) is a Spy who works for an enemy Nation, but whose loyalty KGB ( Transliteration of "КГБ" is the Russian abbreviation of Committee for State Security ( Komityet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosty
Yuzhin was assigned by the KGB to monitor student activities under the cover of a Tass correspondent. Being undercover is disguising one's own identity or using an assumed identity for the purposes of gaining the trust of an individual or organization to learn secret information The Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (Телеграфное агентство Советского Союза Telegrafnoye agentstvo Sovetskogo Soyuza) abbr [1]
In 1978 he began working for the FBI. He revealed the existence of the KGB's Group North, an "elite unit of senior Soviet intelligence officers who specialized in recruiting American and Canadian targets worldwide. " [2] Yuzhin would take pictures of sensitive documents using a tiny CIA camera disguised as a cigarette lighter. His information led to the arrest of Arne Treholt, a Norwegian diplomat who was spying for the Soviets. [3]
Yuzhin worked at the Soviet embassy in Washington, D.C.. A diplomatic mission is a group of people from one State or an international Inter-governmental organization (such as the United Nations) present in Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D The KGB discovered that Yuzhin was a mole in 1985, first when CIA officer Aldrich Ames identifed him (as well as Valery F. near as long as it used to be several months ago It has been actively summarized and split into sub-articles and there is a dynamic talk page discussion of all Aldrich Hazen Ames (born May 26 1941) is a former Central Intelligence Agency Counter-intelligence officer and analyst who in 1994 was convicted Martinov and Sergei Motorin, also KGB officers based in the Soviet embassy in Washington) and later when FBI mole Robert Hanssen confirmed that the three were working for U. Robert Philip Hanssen (born April 18, 1944) is a former American FBI agent who spied for the Russian KGB against the United S. intelligence a few months later, in his first letter to his Soviet handlers on October 1, 1985. Intelligence (abbreviated int or intel) is not Information, but the product of evaluated information valued for its currency and relevance rather than Agent handler is a generic term common to many intelligence organizations which can be applied to Case Officers those who aspire to be Case officers "controllers" contacts
Martinov and Motorin, who were more senior KGB, were recalled to Moscow and executed. Moscow (Москва́ romanised: Moskvá, IPA: see also other names) is the Capital and the largest city of [1] Yuzhin returned to Moscow for reassignment and was arrested in 1986. He spent six years of a 15-year sentence in Perm 35, a Siberian gulag. Siberia (Сиби́рь Sibir) is the name given to the vast region constituting almost all of Northern Asia and for the most part currently serving The Gulag was the government agency that administered the penal labor camps of the Soviet Union. [1] According to one of Yuzhin's former FBI handlers, Yuzhin escaped execution because he was "never in residency in the KGB offices" and was able to "convince his interrogators he knew nothing about operations and cases. Interrogation or questioning is Interviewing as commonly employed by officers of the Police and Military. "[1] He was released on February 7, 1992[2] after the collapse of the Soviet Union, when President Boris Yeltsin issued a general amnesty for political prisoners. The Soviet Union 's collapse into independent nations began early in 1985 The President of Russia (Президент России or the President of the Russian Federation, Президент Российской Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin () (1 February 1931 23 April 2007 was the first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999 Amnesty (from the Greek amnestia, oblivion is a legislative or executive act by which a state restores those who may have been guilty of an offense against it to [1] Yuzhin immigrated to the United States, where the FBI helped him resettle in the San Francisco Bay area. American immigration ( emigration to the United States of America) refers to the movement of non-residents to the United States. The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, or the Bay, is a geographically and ethnically diverse metropolitan region that surrounds the [1]
Ames was captured on February 21, Yuzhin's birthday—Ames in 1994 (February 21st) and Hanssen in 2001 (February 18th). [1] The day before Hanssen's arrest, Yuzhin received "a cryptic call" from an FBI contact telling him to "Watch the news tomorrow. An arrest is the act of depriving a person of his or her liberty usually in relation to the investigation and prevention of crime "[1]
Described as "mild-mannered," Yuzhin currently lives in Santa Rosa in northern California and is supported by a "modest government stipend. Santa Rosa is the County seat of Sonoma County California, United States Northern California is the northern portion of the US state of California. A stipend is a form of Monetary payment or salary such as for an Internship or Apprenticeship. " [1] He lives with his wife Nadia and grown daughter Olga, an occupational therapist. An occupational therapist (OT is a health professional who is trained in the practice of Occupational therapy. [1][2] According to reports his "mother, sister and a married son, an economist, with children of his own, live in Russia. . . Yuzhin has not been back to Russia since his release from prison in 1992, but his son and grandchildren come for visits. "[1] He "does historical research and augments his income with occasional lectures," including one lecture in October 2000 to the Southern California Fraud Investigation Association in Palm Springs, California, where Yuzhin spoke on "the Russian Mind. A lecture is an oral Presentation intended to present information or teach people about a particular subject for example by a University or College Palm Springs is a desert city in Riverside County, California, approximately 111 miles (177 km east of Los Angeles and 136 miles (225 km northeast of "[1]
Yuzhin has also worked with Susan Mesinai and the Ark Project on researching the cases of other former Soviet political prisoners, including Raoul Wallenberg and NSA cryptanalyst Victor Norris Hamilton, who defected to the Soviet Union in 1963 and was discovered in a Russian psychiatric hospital in 1992. A political prisoner is someone held in Prison or otherwise detained perhaps under House arrest, for his or her involvement in political activity Raoul Wallenberg (August 4 1912 &ndash July 17 1947? was a Swedish Humanitarian of the prominent Swedish Wallenberg family who worked in Budapest The National Security Agency/ Central Security Service ( NSA/CSS) is a cryptologic intelligence agency of the United States government Cryptanalysis (from the Greek kryptós, "hidden" and analýein, "to loosen" or "to untie" is the study of methods for In Politics, a defector is a person who gives up allegiance to one state or political entity in exchange for allegiance to another A psychiatric hospital (previously called insane asylum, mental hospital; or derogatorily looney bin, nut house or Funny Farm) is [4]
References
- Wise, David. Spy: The Inside Story of How the FBI's Robert Hanssen Betrayed America. 2003, Random House, paperback.
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