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1985: Vladimir Vetrov, Farewell
ExecutedToday.com ^ | January 23, 2013 | Headsman

Posted on 01/23/2021 10:50:16 AM PST by CheshireTheCat

This date in 1985 spelled farewell for the KGB agent Vladimir Vetrov … code-named Farewell by the western handlers to whom he passed Soviet secrets. Vladimir Vetrov was a career officer in Soviet intelligence who grew disgruntled* and in 1980 went to work for the West.

And he was no ordinary spy. Think Aldrich Ames, to the power of ten.

Vladimir Vetrov oversaw the entire KGB directorate charged with a critical program: Line X, which surveilled western R&D and passed its fruits back to Mother Russia. In the 1960s and 1970s, Line X stole jaw-dropping volumes of military, computer, and industrial advances.

And by 1980, all that information passed through Vetrov’s hands for distribution within the USSR. His betrayal blew the entire thing to smithereens.

When he turned, Vetrov gave 3,000 pages of top-secret documents to his French handlers, information which also made its way to the CIA. “The Soviet military and civil sectors were in large measure running their research on that of the West, particularly the United States,” recalls the gobsmacked American defense advisor who reviewed the file. “Our science was supporting their national defense.”...

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: clickbait; kgb; secretpolice; security; spy; wetworks

1 posted on 01/23/2021 10:50:16 AM PST by CheshireTheCat
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To: CheshireTheCat

CHINA.


2 posted on 01/23/2021 10:52:58 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Allegations of vote fraud cause you to 1)Provide contrary evidence or 2)Censor and erect razor wire)
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To: CheshireTheCat
French film 2009


3 posted on 01/23/2021 11:01:47 AM PST by x
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To: CheshireTheCat

I’d say Farewell didn’t fare well after all.


4 posted on 01/23/2021 11:07:55 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: CheshireTheCat
USSR stealing technology from West...

In A VIEW TO A KILL, General Gogol tried to give Order to Lenin to James Bond...For saving Silicon Valley...Gogol asked M where USSR would get the new technology if Silicon Valley were destroyed...

5 posted on 01/23/2021 11:31:27 AM PST by L.A.Justice ( )
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To: CheshireTheCat
(Excerpt) Read more at

Yeah, I'm not seeing this blog on the excerpt list.

Can you explain why you didn't post the whole thing?

6 posted on 01/23/2021 11:33:09 AM PST by humblegunner (Balls To Picasso.)
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To: Robert DeLong
I'd say Farewell didn't fare well after all.

I'd say
“He was duly recalled for a new trial and, eventually, a bullet in the head in Moscow's Lefortovo Prison.”

Coming from Christopher Wray’s NKVD /FBI to a conservative near you if we don't fight back hard.

7 posted on 01/23/2021 11:47:43 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: CheshireTheCat

God Bless him, RIP Mr. Vetrov.


8 posted on 01/23/2021 12:09:16 PM PST by Amberdawn (Want To Honor Our Troops? Then Be A Citizen Worth Fighting For.)
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To: L.A.Justice

This episode was also loosely alluded to in the series, “The Americans,” in which US counterintelligence fed faulty material and design data to the Soviets resulting in catastrophic failure and the loss of a sub and crew.


9 posted on 01/23/2021 12:17:43 PM PST by Joe 6-pack
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