Stanislav Levchenko

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Stanislav Alexandrovich Levchenko (Russian: Станислав Александрович Левченко, born July 28, 1941) is a former Russian KGB major[1] who defected to the United States in 1979. He obtained U.S. citizenship in 1989.

Levchenko was born in

Novoye Vremya) in Tokyo, Japan.[3]

Levchenko defected to the United States in October 1979,[1] and was instrumental in detailing the KGB's Japanese spy network to the U.S government, including in Congressional testimony in the early 1980s.

After his defection, Levchenko supplied the names of about 200 Japanese agents who had been also defecting earlier. Included in his list were a former labour minister for the Liberal Democratic Party, Hirohide Ishida (石田 博英),[4] and Socialist Party leader Seiichi Katsumata (勝間田 清一). Takuji Yamane of the newspaper Sankei Shimbun was also mentioned.

A Soviet court condemned Levchenko to death in 1981.

Richard Miller
spy case.

Levchenko published his English-language autobiography, On the Wrong Side: My Life in the KGB, in 1988. A Japanese version, KGB no Mita Nihon ("The KGB's View of Japan") was published in 1985.

Japanese agents

  • Gabba or Gabber
Takuji Yamane (Japanese: 山根 卓二).[6]
  • Hoover
Hirohide Ishida (Japanese: 石田 博英).[6]
  • Kant
Seiichi Katsumata (Japanese: 勝間田 清一).[6]
  • Krasnov
Ryuzo Sejima
.

Ivan Kovalenko

Ivan Ivanovich Kovalenko (

ISBN 978-4-16-352260-9." about his short biography and memoirs of the agent activities in the Soviet Union against Japan
.

See also

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 0-313-31955-3
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  2. ^ a b "Stanislav Levchenko". Archived from the original on 2016-07-29.
  3. ^ "Soviet journalist defects". Spokane, Washington: The Spokesman-Review. October 26, 1979. p. 6. Retrieved 16 April 2010.
  4. ISBN 1-57488-915-X
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  5. ^ Anderson, Jack; Van Atta, Dale (December 6, 1987). "The defector the KGB is looking for". Allegheny Times. Beaver Newspapers. pp. A6. Retrieved 16 April 2010.
  6. ^ a b c d レフチェンコ・メモの中身 ワールド＆インテリジェンス ＫＧＢの対日工作⑥ 国際情報誌『ワールド・インテリジェンス』（軍事研究別冊）編集長・黒井文太郎のブログ 2007/07/13(金) 08:58:35.
  7. ^ a b c コミンテルンに嵌められた大東亜戦争 沖縄県民斯ク戦ヘリ 第19130号　國民新聞　平成１９年１２月２５日（火曜日）.
  8. ^
    ISBN 9784896678031
  9. ^ a b c 佐々淳行『瀬島龍三はソ連の「協力者」だった』月刊正論2013年11月号.

Further reading

  • Brook-Shepherd, Gordon, The Storm Birds. Soviet Post War Defectors: The Dramatic True Stories 1945-1985 (New York: Henry Holt, 1989)
  • Laffin, John, Brassey's Book of Espionage (London: Brassey's, 1996)
  • KGB Today: The Hidden Hand. (New York: Reader's Digest Press, 1983). New York: Berkley Books, 1985.

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