Pyotr Semyonovich Popov – was a major in the Soviet military intelligence apparatus. He was the first GRU officer to offer his services to the Central Intelligence Agency after World War II. Between 1953 and 1958, he provided the U.S. government with large amounts of information.
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Pyotr Semyonovich Popov – was a major in the Soviet military intelligence apparatus. He was the first GRU officer to offer his services to the Central Intelligence Agency after World War II. Between 1953 and 1958, he provided the U.S. government with large amounts of information concerning military capabilities and espionage operations. In January 1959, after incriminating evidence was found in his apartment, he was run as a double agent for three months.
He was then arrested in October 1959, and sentenced to death in January 1960. Popov was executed by Soviet authorities in 1960. He may also have been exposed by British double agent George Blake, who inadvertently learned the CIA was using a senior Soviet intelligence officer as a mole.
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