How The Stories Of These Soviet Cold War Defectors Reveal The Intelligence Abyss pt. 7With the passing of 1966, the hunt for traitors within the Central Intelligence Agency continued rapidly expanding. Anatoliy Golitsyn’s perpetual seeming intent was to discredit all following defectors and thereby render himself the CIA’s most important adviser regarding Soviet intelligence. A different past Soviet defector to Britan’s MI5 intelligence group named Yuri Krotkov had previously affirmed Nosenko was a genuine defector. David Stout, August 27, 2008, Yuri Nosenko, Soviet Spy Who Defected, Dies at 81, The New York Times,nytimes.com[iv].

Source: New York Times December 29, 2023 20:00 UTC