Gennady Varenik
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Gennady Varenik (Russian: Геннадий Вареник; 1953 – 1987) was a KGB official who was also a CIA asset. A son of a Ukrainian SMERSH veteran, he was assigned to the First Chief Directorate of the KGB in 1982.
He was a graduate of the Andropov Red Banner Institute, spent a year at TASS in Moscow preparing for his cover. He first encountered the CIA in 1982, a year after arriving in Germany, through a colleague's introduction to a CIA officer. Both sides spent over a year trying to recruit the other as a double agent. In 1983, Varenik suddenly cut off contact.[1]
He reestablished contact with the CIA in March 1985 while in Bonn, allegedly, to use the rewards for passing information in redeeming a debt 7000 DM (or USD) of assigned operational funds which he had squandered. Varenik contributed information on secret KGB operations in West Germany and outed three valuable Soviet assets within the West German government. He was arrested in East Berlin in November 1985 by the KGB, interrogated using a truth drug,[2] tried for treason and executed.[3] He is one of the 25 Soviets betrayed by Aldrich Ames.[4]
Upon his arrest, he had reached the rank of podpolkovnik.
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[edit]- ^ Bonn, Bruce Van Voorst (1995-05-22). "ONE DOUBLE AGENT'S TALE: HE SAVED AMERICAN LIVES". Time. ISSN 0040-781X. Retrieved 2024-08-12.
- ^ Alexander Kouzminov Biological Espionage: Special Operations of the Soviet and Russian Foreign Intelligence Services in the West, Greenhill Books, 2006, ISBN 1-85367-646-2, page 107
- ^ "videofact". www.videofact2.com. Retrieved 2024-08-12.
- ^ "Aldrich Ames Will Go Down in History as a Traitor Who Spied For the Soviet Union During the Cold War - CovertAction Magazine". 2023-04-20. Retrieved 2024-08-12.
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