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Apr 27, 2017 · In August 1961, before General Dmitri Fedorovich Polyakov became one of the CIA’s most valuable Cold War assets, he was a decorated Soviet diplomat meeting an American general in a quiet room...
Descriptions. Member of the so-called ‘People’s Council’ of the so-called ‘Luhansk People’s Republic’. Has therefore supported and implemented actions and policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine, and further destabilised Ukraine. — Swiss SECO Sanctions/Embargoes, 2023-04-20.
- 1987-04-07
- Person
- male
- Recruited by USSR Intelligence
- Paid in Tools and Fishing Gear
- Highly Positioned in Soviet Ranks
- Betrayed and Executed
Polyakov was born in what is now Ukraine in 1921. After serving in World War II, he was recruited by the GRU, the USSR’s military intelligence agency. He wasn’t the type of man anyone would peg as a spy—the son of a bookkeeper, he was an unassuming father who did carpentry projects in his spare time. On the surface, he was a dutiful worker and a re...
Polyakov considered himself to be “a Russian patriot,” writes author Ronald Kessler. The spy lived modestly and refused to accept large amounts of money for his work. Instead, he insisted on being paid only $3,000 a year. And the money wasn’t delivered in cash. Instead, writes Kessler, Polyakov acceptedpayment in the form of “Black & Decker power t...
Polyakov was not only fearless—he was well positioned within the Soviet military, where he rose in ranks in the GRU year after year. “He was absolutely at the top,”saidSandy Grimes, a former CIA officer, in a 1998 interview. Because Polyakov had access to so many kinds of information within the Soviet intelligence machine, said Grimes, he provided ...
“Does he lie in a traitor's grave, as Pravda suggests, or is he a secret hero, quietly retired at the end of a daring career?” speculated intelligence expert Thomas Powers in the Los Angeles Times. “Only one thing about the Polyakov case is now certain: Whoever decided to publish the Pravda story was certainly willing—most probably wanted—to remind...
The first occupation was very short, from the 21st to the 29th of November 1941, and then the town was liberated until the end of July 1942. The second occupation lasted six months, until mid-February 1943.
Oct 5, 2017 · Polyakov achieved the rank of general, becoming the West’s highest-placed spy. Eva Dillon’s father, Paul, a CIA officer and an Irish Catholic marine from Boston, was one of Polyakov’s handlers...
- Jefferson Flanders
Jan 23, 1990 · Experts who believe in General Polyakov's genuineness say he was apparently swept up and executed in a wave of arrests of American agents in the mid-1980's, shortly after a series of security...
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