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Vitaly Yurchenko
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KGB officer Vitaly Yurchenko defected to the United States in August 1985. During his debriefing, Yurchenko revealed that a former NSA employee had approached Soviet intelligence and sold information about highly classified operations, though Yurchenko did not know the individual's name.
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