KGB AGENT BACK IN THE COLD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000302730007-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 29, 2010
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: November 5, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

ON PARE
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
5 November 1985
KCA agent back
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deny a report,
Yurchenko, 50, was de-
scribed as the No. S man in
the KGB, the Soviet intelli-
gence service, at the time he
defected in Rome in early
August. According to U.S.
government sources, he
in the cold
ASHINGTON-In a
hn le Came spy novel,
KGB agent who de.
ted to the United
tes earlier this year
ck to the Soviet Union
,
ficials said last night.
V
italy Yurchenko, a high.
el Soviet KGB officer wh
o
fected to the West in Au.
st, has re-defected to the
viet Union, a spokesma
n
r the Senate Intelligence
mmittee said.
The spokesman, Dave
served as first secretary of
the Soviet embassy in
Washington from 1975-80 and
oversaw KGB intelligence
operations In the United
States.
The sources said Yur-
chenko had been undergoing
extensive interrogation by
the CIA at an undisclosed
location in the United States.
Acting on information he
provided, U.S. authorities
said they learned that Ed-
ward Howard, a former CIA
employe, sold intelligence
secrets to the Soviet Union.
Howard, a 33-year-old econo-
mic analyst for the New Mex-
ico Legislature, vanished in
early October while under
FBI surveillance.
Howard was last reported
to be in Helsinki. Finland.
2d spy identified
U.S. government sources
said Yurchenko identified
another American who had
been working for the KGB,
but no arrests have yet re-
sulted from that information.
An arrest warrant issued
on Sept. 23 in Albuquerque
charged Howard with con.
spiracy to deliver national
defense information to aid a
foreign government. Howard
worked for the CIA from
January 1981 to June 1983,
but left the agency after fall.
soing
saidlYgraph exam,
The United States has on-
ly acknowledged the defec.
tion of Yerchenko officially
on one occasion. On Oct. 11,
following reports that Yur.
chenko had defected, the de-
partment said: "We can now
officially confirm that Vitaly
Yurchenko, a senior official
of the KGB, has been in the
United States for some time.
He had previously asked that
his presence here not be
publicized."
Yurchenko disappeared
while on a mission to Rome
in late June or early July.
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