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signed copy of this newspaper article that KGB Colonel Viktor Sharovatov gave to CIA officer Jack Platt TASS IS AUTHORIZED TO ANNOUNCE SHORTLY BEFORE HIS ARREST, CIA AGENT AGRONOM [Trigon] PROPOSED TO THE DAUGHTER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE CPSU KONSTANTIN RUSAKOV. HIS DEATH PUT A CRIMP IN THEIR WEDDING… When this film was shown…

See timeline chart for the TRIANON operation: This research, done by Tolga Urcel, is based mostly on Marti’s book Widow Spy and Igor Peretrukhin’s Agent Codename – TRIANON Click for Moscow map of possible Parkplatz location Tolga Yucel 28th April 2018 Dear Martha, I wanted to write you this letter earlier (in December 2017) but…

After retirement, some KGB officers who had been involved in the TRIANON investigation wrote books and articles or were interviewed in podcasts and videos about the case. Some continued service in the FSB or SVR and retired in high positions. A few of the KGB veterans have commented about more recent intelligence operations, including specific…

An American Girl Beat Up KGB Speznaz Guys. A True Story 1 February To the man in the street, special forces units of the KGB are associated with such concepts as “insurmountable force” and “invincibility.” But have Alpha and Vympel always won over spies and bandits? Or were there chapters of defeat or even comical…

Martha Peterson and TRIGON as Seen by the Russians In her book The Widow Spy, retired CIA officer Marti Peterson describes her life and events leading up to joining the CIA, her training and assignment to Moscow, handling agent Aleksandr Ogorodnik – codename TRIGON, and her capture in July 1977 by the KGB. A year…