Stanislav Alexandrovich Levchenko (russian: Станислав Александрович Левченко, born July 28, 1941) is a former

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...

n KGB major who defected to the

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in 1979. He obtained U.S. citizenship in 1989. Levchenko was born in

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

, obtained an education at the Institute of Asia and Africa of

Lomonosov Moscow State University M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...

,http://www.videofact.com/english/defectors_14_en.html and pursued graduate studies at the

Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences The Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (russian: Институт востоковедения Российской Академии Наук), formerly Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences, ...

. His first KGB work came in 1968, after he had worked for the

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for two years. He became fully employed by the agency in 1971. In 1975, he was sent undercover abroad, as a journalist working for the Russian magazine ''New Times'' (''

Novoye Vremya ''The New Times'' (russian: Новое Время) is a Russian language magazine in Russia. The magazine was founded in 1943. The current version, established in 1988, is a liberal, independent Russian weekly news magazine, publishing for Russi ...

'') in

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Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

. Levchenko defected to the United States in October 1979, and was instrumental in detailing the KGB's Japanese spy network to the U.S government, including in Congressional testimony in the early 1980s. After his defection, Levchenko supplied the names of about 200 Japanese agents who had been also defecting earlier. Included in his list were a former labour minister for the Liberal Democratic Party,

Hirohide Ishida was a Japanese politician. Early life Born in Noshiro, Akita, Ishida entered Waseda University, where he majored in political science and economics. After graduating in 1939, he joined '' Chugai Shōgyō Shimpo'' (later renamed ''Nihon Keizai S ...

(石田博英), and

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leader Seiichi Katsumata (勝間田清一). Takuji Yamane of the newspaper ''

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'' was also mentioned. A Soviet court condemned Levchenko to death in 1981. Svetlana and Nikolai Ogorodnikov tried to hunt him down in the United States, but they were exposed in the Richard Miller spy case. Levchenko published his English-language autobiography, ''On the Wrong Side: My Life in the KGB'', in 1988. A Japanese version, ''KGB no Mita Nihon'' ("The KGB's View of Japan") was published in 1985.

Japanese agents

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official agent.佐々淳行『瀬島龍三はソ連の「協力者」だった』月刊正論2013年11月号. Levchenko testified that Ryuzo Sejima was intimate with

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who was a boss of the agent activities in the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

against

. Ryuzo Sejima had disguised himself as the diplomatic courier called "Ryozo (良三) Sekoshi (瀬越)" and had gone to

from December 25, 1944 to February 24, 1945. Ryuzo Sejima moved out to

Manchuria Manchuria is an exonym (derived from the endo demonym " Manchu") for a historical and geographic region in Northeast Asia encompassing the entirety of present-day Northeast China (Inner Manchuria) and parts of the Russian Far East (Outer Manc ...

on July 1, 1945. In fact, Ryuzo Sejima had already known that the

would attack to

and

at this time. Although Ryuzo Sejima was able to return to the mainland in

without any obstacle after

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, he defected to and had stayed for 11 years in the

. Yuriy Rastvorov who defected from the

to the

by way of

as well as Levchenko had trained Ryuzo Sejima as an defection agent in the

made friends with

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of Akira Kato（加藤昭）, Yohei Sasakawa and Buntaro Kuroi（黒井文太郎）, etc. in

, and has left the report about Ryuzo Sejima's secret. After Ryuzo Sejima returned from the

on August 18, 1956, it was confirmed by the Japanese

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that the

came in contact with Ryuzo Sejima in Japan. Ryuzo Sejima took part in the Toshiba-Kongsberg scandal. Ryuzo Sejima also worked with

Yoshio Kodama was a Japanese right-wing ultranationalist and a prominent figure in the rise of organized crime in Japan. The most famous '' kuromaku'', or behind-the-scenes power broker, of the 20th century, he was active in Japan's political arena and crimi ...

who was intimate with the

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and the

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. When

died on January 17, 1984, Ryuzo Sejima was also intimate with the

and the

as if Ryuzo Sejima succeeded the work of

. Therefore, the

double agent In the field of counterintelligence, a double agent is an employee of a secret intelligence service for one country, whose primary purpose is to spy on a target organization of another country, but who is now spying on their own country's organi ...

theories of the

and the

were referred to Ryuzo Sejima.

Ivan Kovalenko

Ivan Ivanovich Kovalenko (

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: Иван Иванович(Ивановић) Коваленко; February 13, 1919 – July 27, 2005) was born in

Vladivostok Vladivostok ( rus, Владивосто́к, a=Владивосток.ogg, p=vɫədʲɪvɐˈstok) is the largest city and the administrative center of Primorsky Krai, Russia. The city is located around the Zolotoy Rog, Golden Horn Bay on the Sea ...

RSFSR The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR or RSFSR ( rus, Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика, Rossíyskaya Sovétskaya Federatívnaya Soci ...

(now in

). Kovalenko was in charge of a secretary and the interpreter of

Aleksandr Vasilevsky Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Vasilevsky ( ru , Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Василе́вский) (30 September 1895 – 5 December 1977) was a Soviet career-officer in the Red Army who attained the rank of Marshal of the Soviet ...

who was

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during

. Kovalenko was also the deputy director of the International Department of the

CPSU "Hymn of the Bolshevik Party" , headquarters = 4 Staraya Square, Moscow , general_secretary = Vladimir Lenin (first)Mikhail Gorbachev (last) , founded = , banned = , founder = Vladimir Lenin , newspaper ...

Central Committee and a firm proponent of dealing with

from a position of strength during the

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(1945–91). Kovalenko had visited

every year since 1956 to promote the relationship between

and the

. As the agent in charge, Kovalenko was severely criticized for the defections of Rastvorov and Levchenko to the

. His help of

who had come in contact with the

side also raised concerns regarding his loyalty as an agent for the

. Kovalenko died of chronic diseases such as

gangrene Gangrene is a type of tissue death caused by a lack of blood supply. Symptoms may include a change in skin color to red or black, numbness, swelling, pain, skin breakdown, and coolness. The feet and hands are most commonly affected. If the ga ...

and

diabetes mellitus Diabetes, also known as diabetes mellitus, is a group of metabolic disorders characterized by a high blood sugar level ( hyperglycemia) over a prolonged period of time. Symptoms often include frequent urination, increased thirst and increased ap ...

at his home in

. Kovalenko published "" about his short biography and memoirs of the agent activities in the

against

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Japanese agents

Ivan Kovalenko

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