DEFECTOR OFFERS DATA ON SOVEIT SPY NETWORK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000606500001-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 2, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: June 1, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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BALTIT'K)P.E SUN
1 June 1985
WORLD
BRITAIN
Defector offers data
on Soviet spy network
The Soviet Union has up to 40
military intelligence agents working
In Britain in addition to KGB spies, a
Soviet defector said in an interview
on British radio yesterday.
The defector, who uses the pseu-
donym Victor Suvarov, said he had
,been a major in the GRU military in-
telligence network, which he said
was run out of the Soviet Embassy in
London.
Many GRU spies worked in the
Soviet trade delegation, he said. "It is
the best imaginable cover.
From Wire Reports
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