Vladimir Anatolyevich Kuzichkin ''Владимир Анатольевич Кузичкин'' (born 1947) is a former

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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)

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who

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to the

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Station of the

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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

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, to the

Khomeini Ruhollah Khomeini, Ayatollah Khomeini, Imam Khomeini ( , ; ; 17 May 1900 – 3 June 1989) was an Iranian political and religious leader who served as the first supreme leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989. He was the founder of ...

regime, which executed many of the agents. Ali Agca claimed that Major Kuzichkin ordered him to kill

John Paul II Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...

.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''.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kuzichkin, Vladimir 1947 births Living people Soviet intelligence personnel who defected to the United Kingdom KGB operatives in Iran

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