Vladimir Kuzichkin

Vladimir Anatolyevich Kuzichkin Владимир Анатольевич Кузичкин (born 1947) is a former <a href="/facts/Soviet/m7wWsPto">Soviet</a> <a href="/facts/First_Chief_Directorate/0AyGxXYH">foreign intelligence</a> officer who <a href="/facts/Defection/Up49mrVc">defected</a> to Great Britain. He worked as an undercover agent for the <a href="/facts/KGB/ommGANo5">KGB</a> in Iran beginning in 1977. The details of his defection are uncertain, but he arrived in Great Britain in October 1982. Kuzichkin gave information on Soviet operations, agents, and socialist activists to <a href="/facts/MI6/oPppIz3x">MI6</a>; British intelligence and the <a href="/facts/CIA/U7urmQYL">CIA</a> then provided the information to the <a href="/facts/Khomeini/y1kgDUoG">Khomeini</a> regime, which executed many of the agents. 
His memoirs were published by <a href="/facts/Andre_Deutsch/SgMhjPzV">Andre Deutsch</a> in the UK in 1990 as Inside the KGB: Myth and Reality. <a href="/facts/Pantheon_Books/esG4LTnr">Pantheon Books</a> published the U.S. edition in 1991 under the title Inside the KGB: My Life in Soviet Espionage.

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Vladimir Kuzichkin