Victor Cherkashin

Victor Cherkashin

Victor Ivanovich Cherkashin (Russian: Виктор Иванович Черкашин), born in 1932 in the village of Krasnoe in the Kursk region south of Moscow was a counter-intelligence officer of the KGB. He joined the KGB in 1952 and retired in 1991. He was the case officer for both Aldrich Ames, a CIA counter-intelligence officer, and Robert Hanssen, an FBI agent, when they spied for the Soviet Union.

References

*Victor Cherkashin, "Spy Handler: Memoir of a KGB Officer. The True Story of The Man Who recruited Robert Hanssen & Aldrich Ames", Basic, 2005, ISBN 0-465-00968-9


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