Vladimir Anatolyevich Kuzichkin ''Владимир Анатольевич Кузичкин'' (born 1947) is a former
Soviet
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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 ...
(
PGU KGB SSSR)
officer
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who
defected
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to the
Tehran
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Station of the
British
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secret intelligence service in 1982. Information on Soviet agents and socialist activists in Iran that he passed on to MI6 was subsequently provided by the agency, along with the
CIA
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, to the
Khomeini
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regime, which executed many of the agents.
Ali Agca claimed that Major Kuzichkin ordered him to kill
John Paul II
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.
Strzelał nie tylko Ali Agca?
''Rzeczpospolita'', Eva Losinska, 13 May 2011
He published his memoirs in English in 1991 with the title of ''Inside the KGB: Myth and Reality''.
See also
* List of Eastern Bloc defectors
* List of KGB defectors
This is a list of KGB officers and agents who have defected.
See also
* List of GRU defectors
* List of Soviet and Eastern Bloc defectors
* List of Soviet Union defections
* List of Cold War pilot defections
* Petrov Affair
The Petrov ...
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kuzichkin, Vladimir
1947 births
Living people
Soviet intelligence personnel who defected to the United Kingdom
KGB operatives in Iran