KGB AGENT BACK IN THE COLD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00587R000201160019-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 12, 2010
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: November 5, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ARTICLE A~
ON PAiOE
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
5 November 1985
KGB agent back
in the cold
~ws way seiw~
WASHINGT01~In a
move straight out of a
John le Came spy novel,
a KGB agent who de-
f ~~ ~ the United
States earlier this year
has decided to re-detect
back to the Soviet Union,
officials said last night.
levli Soviet KGB o ficer w o ?
detected to the West in Au.
gust, has re?defected to the
Soviet Union, a spokesman
for the Senate Intelligence
Comnuttee said
The spokesman, Dave
Ho1T 1~ said he was told by
tna ~.en~i"1Tre_=__
enc abo
c a e oviet
called a news~conference amend
said Yurchenko would
appear there.
No. S man at KGB
CIA rnnrn.+nt~tiye Pa i
V~12 refused to eenfirw; Or
aeny >:ne report. -- -
Yurchenko, 50, wu de?
scribed as the No. 8 man in
the KGB, the soviet lntelli-
Bence service, at the time he
defected in Rome in early
August According to U.S.
government sources, he
served u first secretary of
the Soviet embassy in
WuhingWn from 197580 and
oversaw KGB intelligence
oDeratlona la the Unlted
sates.
The sources said Yur-
chenko hsd been undergoing
extensive interrogation by
the CIA at an undisclosed
location in the United Sates.
Acting on information he
provided, U.S. authorities
said they learned that Ed-
ward Howard, a former CIA
employe, sold intelligence
secrets to the Soviet Union.
Howard, a 33?year-old econo-
mic analyst for the New Mex-
ico Legislature, vanished in
early October while under
FBI surveIIlance.
Howard wu last reported
to be in Helsinki, Finland
~1 ?Py ideatlfied
U.S. government sources
said Yurchenko identified
another American who had
been working for the KGB,
but no arrests have yet re-
aultedfrom that information.
An arrest warrant issued
on Sept 23 in Albuquerque
charged Howard with con-
spiracy to deliver national
defense information to aid a
foreign government. Howard
worked for the CIA from
January 1981 to June 1983,
but left the agency after fail:
sources saidlYgraph exam,
The United States has oa-
ly acknowledged the deiec-
tion of Yerchenko offkially
on one occasion. On Oct 11,
following reports that Yur?
chenko had defected, the de?
Partment said: "We can now
offkially confirm that Vilely
Yurchenko, a seaior official
of the KGB, has been in the
United Sates for some time.
He had previously asked that
his presence here not be
publicized."
Yurchenko disappeared
while on a mission to Rome
in late June or early July.
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