EX-SPY SAYS SOVIET KILLED A DEFECTOR

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2010
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• Publication Date: October 30, 1985
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30 October 1985
Ex-spy says
Soviet killed
a defector
STAT
By JOSEPH VOLZ
News WashnQto auew
WASHINGTON-Vitaly
Yurchenko, a high-ranking
Soviet spy who defected to
the U.S. last summer, con-
tends that a long-missing de-
fector, former Soviet Navy
Capt. Nicholas Shadrin, was
killed by Soviet agents in
Vienna a decade ago.
Thus, it appears that the
final chapter In a Cold War
spy thriller, which at one
point involved a personal
plea from President Gerald
Ford to Soviet President
Leonid Brezhnev to save
Shadrin, may have been
written.
Shadrin was a double
agent for the U.S. at the time
of his disappearance, Dec. 19,
1975. On that morning, he
said goodby to his wife, Ewa,
and set out from their Vienna
hotel room to meet with the
trigger too quickly fearing
that Shadrin might escape.
But the CIA was supposed
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Soviet KGB agents.
Shadrin's s n wa
to Persuade th KGIR that his
Bart still belonged to the
oviet
Brezhnev later told Ford
that Shadrin failed to show
up for a second Vienna meet-
ing with Soviet officials.
Erezhnev said
Case of bungling?
But the Daily News has
learned that Yurchenko, in
charge of Soviet espionage
activities in North America,
has told the FBI Shadrin was
killed by the Russians almost
immediately.
It could be a clas
and the CIA The Soviets
hardly had a chance to grill
Shadrin, the normal proce-
dure, and it may have been
that a KGB agent pulled the
Cynthia ausmann, was in
Vienna closely monitories
Shadrin but she decided, r
some reason. a no survel -
anc w necessary.
As in mos spy sagas,
there may be still another
side. The CIA and FBI may
have sent ~o his
death r ct "Igor" a
Soviet working for the
Igor was a controversial
figure, m ici e y s
by theme u seen as a
"phony defector" by some
CIA facials.
In any event, FBI officials
may have decided that if
Shadrin failed to continue
his activities with the KGB,
Igor's standing with the
Soviets might fall, too. The
current whereabouts of
Igor-or even if he is still
alive-could not be learned.
By all accounts, thou h,
Shadrin was a major int 1 I.
ence find for the U.S.
e defected in 1959, he wathe youngest destroyer cap-
tain in the Soviet Navy. He
escaped from Gdansk, Po-
land, in a small boat with his
lover, who later became his
wife and is now a Virginia
dentist.
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