Clearly there is a genetic proclivity for deception if nothing else. Apples don’t fall far from the tree. Reminds me of the mole programmer kid in Le Bureau thriller series.
I'm convinced Vitaly Yurchenko (and Yuri Nosenko, Igor Kochnov, Boris Orekhov, Sergei Papushin, and Oleg Gribanov, et al.) was a false defector, and that Dmitry Polyakov for one year (1962) and Aleksei Kulak for fifteen years (1962-1977) were Kremlin-loyal triple-agents at the FBI's NYC field office. (It's interesting that Oleg Kalugin defends Yurchenko's bona fides and those of Nosenko, too.)
Pete Bagley says in his 2014, article "Ghosts of the Spy Wars," that it's unlikely that Hanssen and Ames betrayed everyone who was rolled up in the USSR in 1985. Interestingly, he points out that a KGB officer by the name of Alexandr Kouzminov wrote in a 2005 book that he thinks "most" of the CIA's spies inside the KGB who were betrayed by Ames in 1985 were in fact loyal staffers pretending to help the CIA.
FWIW, I believe that Bruce Leonard Solie and Leonard V. McCoy were KGB "moles" in the Agency.
things that make you go Hmm... and wonder how does he come to be working for Elon Musk?
Clearly there is a genetic proclivity for deception if nothing else. Apples don’t fall far from the tree. Reminds me of the mole programmer kid in Le Bureau thriller series.
Not unbelievable at all.
The chaos expands.
Yes. TY
fascinating stuff, especially how the same people crop up in varied contexts
That is huge! And Musk knows this guy.
I'm convinced Vitaly Yurchenko (and Yuri Nosenko, Igor Kochnov, Boris Orekhov, Sergei Papushin, and Oleg Gribanov, et al.) was a false defector, and that Dmitry Polyakov for one year (1962) and Aleksei Kulak for fifteen years (1962-1977) were Kremlin-loyal triple-agents at the FBI's NYC field office. (It's interesting that Oleg Kalugin defends Yurchenko's bona fides and those of Nosenko, too.)
Pete Bagley says in his 2014, article "Ghosts of the Spy Wars," that it's unlikely that Hanssen and Ames betrayed everyone who was rolled up in the USSR in 1985. Interestingly, he points out that a KGB officer by the name of Alexandr Kouzminov wrote in a 2005 book that he thinks "most" of the CIA's spies inside the KGB who were betrayed by Ames in 1985 were in fact loyal staffers pretending to help the CIA.
FWIW, I believe that Bruce Leonard Solie and Leonard V. McCoy were KGB "moles" in the Agency.