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How a KGB assassin used the death of his child to defect


Shortly before 5 a.m. on August 10, 1961, Bogdan Stashinsky was waiting near his apartment building in Moscow to be picked up by his case officer, Yurii Aleksandrov. Before leaving, he put his household effects in order and destroyed the list of code phrases that he and his wife, Inge, had used in their correspondence over the past six months, he in Moscow, where the KGB kept an eye on him, and she in East Berlin, where she had gone to have their newborn son. The only incriminating evidence remaining was what he carried on him — identification papers and …read more

Source: European Voice

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