John Stockwell on Vitaly Yurchenko and Double Agents

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Yurchenko announced he had been kidnapped and drugged by the Americans. It is possible that he was acting as a double agent, seeking to fool the CIA with wrong leads to protect one of the USSR's then most important agents, the CIA's Aldrich Ames. Lt. Col. Yuri Ivanovich Nosenko (October 30, 1927 - August 23, 2008) was a KGB defector and a figure of significant controversy within the US intelligence community, since his claims contradicted another defector, Anatoliy Golitsyn. The harsh ...