Nicholas Shadrin

Nicholas Shadrin: Nicholas George Shadrin, born Nikolai Fedorovich Artamonov, was a Soviet Naval officer who defected to the United States of America in 1959.

He worked for CIA and was engaged in various counter-intelligence assignments during the cold war. He was allegedly kidnapped by KGB agents while in Vienna with his wife. Another Soviet defector revealed, at a later date, that Shadrin had died from an overdose of chloroform during the operation.

References

http://www.mitchellspublications.com/ur/loc/hurth/sha/index.htm

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/21/spotlight/

Books

Soviet Defectors The KGB Wanted List, By Vladislav Krasnov

Shadrin, the Spy Who Never Came Back, By Henry Hurt, Reader's Digest Press, 1981

See also

List of Eastern Bloc defectors

Categories:
American spies against the Soviet Union
Soviet Navy personnel
Soviet defectors to the United States

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