Vasili Mitrokhin
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Vasili Mitrokhin (March 3, 1922–January 23, 2004) is a former KGB officer who defected from Russia. He was exfiltrated from Russia in 1992 by the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS). Mitrokhin was accompanied by his family and 6 cases representing twelve years of daily note taking of KGB files going back as far as 1918.
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Biography
Vasili Mitrokhin was born in central Russia in 1922. He began his career as an intelligence officer in 1948 working for the Committee of Information--the temporarily combined MGB (future KGB) and GRU (Soviet military intelligence).[1] His first five years in intelligence were during the final paranoid years of Stalin's dictatorship, when intelligence agencies were enjoined to conduct investigations against usually imaginary Titoist and Zionist conspiracies. [2]
Mitrokhin tried twice to defect to the CIA, but was turned down each time because the CIA wanted to "maintain high moral ground" by not recruiting KGB defecters.[3] Subsequently, he turned to the SIS, who exfiltrated Mitrokhin from Latvia, including his family, and 6 cases of notes on KGB files.[4]
Vasili Mitrokhin died of pneumonia on January 23, 2004, at the age of 81.[5]
Mitrokhin Archive
References
- ↑ Andrew & Mitronkhin 1999, p. 1
- ↑ Andrew & Mitronkhin 1999, p. 1-2
- ↑ Trulock 2004
- ↑ Andrew & Mitronkhin 1999, p. 1, Trulock 2004, AP 2004
- ↑ Trulock 2004
Sources
- Andrew, Christopher & Vasili Mitrokhin (1999), The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB, Basic Books, ISBN 0-465-00310-9
- AP, Associated Press (2004-01-30), Vasili Mitrokhin dies at 81, The Guardian Retrieved on 05-18-2007
- Trulock, Notra (2004-03-03), Vasili Mitrokhin Is Dead, Accuracy in Media Retrieved on 05-18-2007
