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...Dmitri Polyakov: The most important CIA source whom Ames betrayed was Polyakov, the legendary top hat. So valuable was Polyakov, a general in Soviet military intelligence, that the CIA provided him with special high-tech equipment that it reserved for its most important agents. He was, for example, given a high-speed "burst" transmitter and a clock for his Moscow apartment that lit up in response to a radio signal to inform him that a dead drop, or hiding place, had been cleared by the CIA. Over the years, Polyakov provided the CIA with data on Soviet strategic missiles, antitank...
Until Aldrich Ames turned him in. In 1990 the Soviets announced that Polyakov had been caught; they later said he had been executed in 1988. Polyakov had been one of a kind. "He didn't do this for money," the CIA's Jeanne Vertefeuille told a colleague. "He insisted on staying in place to help us." Tears came in her eyes when she spoke of the general...
BACK ON EARTH. VALERY POLYAKOV, 52, physician and cosmonaut; after a recordsetting 437 days and 18 hours in space on board the Russian Mir space station; in Kazakhstan. During his 14-1/2 months in orbit, Polyakov circled the earth about 7,000 times, covering a distance of 250 million miles...
...residence in the Mir space station, where he will study the effects of lengthy space flight on the human body. Thagard is scheduled to stay aboard Mir for three months, which will be the longest time an American has spent in orbit, but that won't impress Valery Polyakov; the Lou Gehrig of cosmonauts will finally get to leave Mir and return to earth this week after a record-breaking 440 days in space...
...months on Mir, Polyakov circled the Earth more than 7,000 times...