FATE OF SOVIET SPY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000606040018-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 25, 2010
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: October 28, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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4701 WILLARD AVENUE, CHEVY CHASE, MARYLAND 20815 (301) 656-406
NBC Nightly News STATION WRC TV
NBC Network
DATE October 28, 1985 7:00 PM CITY Washington, DC
Fate of Soviet Spy
TOM BROKAW: While that was going on in a Baltimore
courtroom today, there was a fascinating development in the case
of Nicholas Shadrin, a Soviet naval officer who defected to this
country in the late '50's. He disappeared while on a mission for
the CIA ten years ago, and tonight NBC's Lloyd Dobyns is able to
report the defection of a Russian spy turned up some brutal news
about what happened to Shadrin.
LLOYD DOBYNS: Nicholas Shadrin, a Soviet defector who
worked for the FBI and the CIA, disappeared from in front of the
Votive Church in Vienna, Austria on December 20th, 1975. It has
taken ten years to find out what happened to him.
Shadrin and his wife defected in 1959. In the Soviet
Union, Shadrin was tried in absentia as a traitor and sentenced
to death.
Despite that, American intelligence agencies eventually
sent Shadrin to Vienna, a city filled with everybody's spies.
Shadrin thought his job was to pretend to be a double agent. In
fact, the FBI and CIA used him as bait in a scheme to attract a
highly placed Soviet intelligence agent. Shadrin disappeared.
Mrs. Shadrin blamed Washington.
EWA SHADRIN: I'm convinced that he was sacrificed by the
United States. For whatever reason they had in mind, either
political or international, they just simply sacrificed Nick.
GENERAL WILSON: I think he indirectly was betrayed. As
I was briefed, there was no countersurveillance of his meeting.
He was alone. He was unprotected. And the Soviets simply
fulfilled one of their basic laws, which, in shorthand, reads
"death to traitors."
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DOBYNS: General Wilson was right. Intelligence sources
now say that Vasily Urchenko, the most recent Soviet defector,
has said that the KGB kidnaped Shadrin and, on that same day,
killed him. That Soviet agent the FBI thought it was protecting
was part of an elaborate KGB scheme to get Shadrin and carry out
the Soviet death sentence.
The CIA, the Department of State and the Department of
Justice all say no comment. Mrs. Shadrin declined to comment.
But NBC News has learned that after ten years of waiting, Ewa
Shadrin has been told that her husband, the spy who was sent out
into the cold, is dead.
Lloyd Dobyns, NBC News.
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