Word: tolkachev
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Adolf Tolkachev: On June 13, 1985, the same day Ames turned over his cache of secret CIA documents to Sergei Chuvakhin in Washington, the KGB arrested one of the CIA's key assets in Moscow. A defense researcher who was a leading expert on stealth aircraft technology, Tolkachev was identified in the documents Ames turned over. The CIA later concluded that Tolkachev had first been betrayed by renegade CIA officer Edward Lee Howard, but that Ames' identification helped to seal his fate. Tolkachev was executed on Sept...
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