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Genrikh Averyanovich Borovik (russian: Ге́нрих Аверьянович Борови́к; born 16 November 1929,
Minsk
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) is a
Soviet
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and
Russia
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n publicist, writer, playwright and filmmaker, the father of journalist
Artyom Borovik.
According to
Vasili Mitrokhin
Vasili Nikitich Mitrokhin (russian: link=no, Васи́лий Ники́тич Митро́хин; March 3, 1922 – January 23, 2004) was a major and senior archivist for the Soviet Union's foreign intelligence service, the First Chief Di ...
, Borovik was a
KGB
The KGB (russian: links=no, lit=Committee for State Security, Комитет государственной безопасности (КГБ), a=ru-KGB.ogg, p=kəmʲɪˈtʲet ɡəsʊˈdarstvʲɪn(ː)əj bʲɪzɐˈpasnəsʲtʲɪ, Komitet gosud ...
agent in the
United States
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, one of whose successful projects was promotion of false
John F. Kennedy assassination theories through writer
Mark Lane.
Vasili Mitrokhin
Vasili Nikitich Mitrokhin (russian: link=no, Васи́лий Ники́тич Митро́хин; March 3, 1922 – January 23, 2004) was a major and senior archivist for the Soviet Union's foreign intelligence service, the First Chief Di ...
and Christopher Andrew (2000). '' The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West''. Gardners Books. .
In 1967, as senior APN correspondent in the US, Borovik was reported to have "sounded out the possibility of broadcasting a program about Vietnam on the network of one of the largest American television corporations".
He also wrote a book about famous Soviet spy
Kim Philby
Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby (1 January 191211 May 1988) was a British intelligence officer and a double agent for the Soviet Union. In 1963 he was revealed to be a member of the Cambridge Five, a spy ring which had divulged British secr ...
.
[Genrikh Borovik (Author), Phillip Knightley (Editor). ''The Philby Files: The Secret Life of Master Spy Kim Philby''
]
Borovik was the fourth and the last chairman of the
Soviet Peace Committee The Soviet Peace Committee (SPC, also known as Soviet Committee for the Defense of Peace, SCDP, russian: Советский Комитет Защиты Мира) was a state-sponsored organization responsible for coordinating peace movements active ...
, in the years 1987–1991.
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