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Vladimir Ippolitovich Vetrov (Владимир Ипполитович Ветров; 10 October 1932 – 23 January 1985) was a high-ranking KGB spy during the Cold War who decided to covertly release valuable information to France and NATO on the Soviet Union's clandestine program aimed at stealing technology from the West.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 45 relations: Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, Alexandra Maria Lara, All Things Considered, Attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II, BBC World Service, Central Intelligence Agency, Cold War, Communism, Dieter Gerhardt, Direction de la surveillance du territoire, Emir Kusturica, Engineer, Espionage, Farewell (2009 film), Farewell Dossier, Federation of American Scientists, France, France 5, GRU (Soviet Union), Guillaume Canet, IMDb, Intelligence agency, KGB, Le Figaro, Line X, Maksim Moshkow, Median strip, Montreal, Moscow, NATO, NPR, Rotten Tomatoes, Sabotage, Science, South African Navy, Soviet Union, Supreme Court of the Soviet Union, The Independent, Thomson-CSF, Video, Viktor Suvorov, VK (service), Western world, Wojciech Jaruzelski, Xavier Ameil.

  2. Executed Soviet people
  3. People convicted of murder by the Soviet Union
  4. People executed for treason against the Soviet Union
  5. Soviet people convicted of murder

Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union

The Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union was the highest scientific institution of the Soviet Union from 1925 to 1991.

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Alexandra Maria Lara

Alexandra Maria Lara (née Plătăreanu; 12 November 1978) is a Romanian-German actress who has appeared in Downfall (2004), Control (2007), Youth Without Youth (2007), The Reader (2008), Rush (2013), and Geostorm (2017).

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All Things Considered

All Things Considered (ATC) is the flagship news program on the American network National Public Radio (NPR).

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Attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II

On 13 May 1981, in St. Peter's Square in Vatican City, Pope John Paul II was shot and wounded by Mehmet Ali Ağca while he was entering the square.

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BBC World Service

The BBC World Service is an international broadcaster owned and operated by the BBC.

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Central Intelligence Agency

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), known informally as the Agency, metonymously as Langley and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and conducting covert action through its Directorate of Operations.

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Cold War

The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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Communism

Communism (from Latin label) is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered around common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products to everyone in the society based on need.

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Dieter Gerhardt

Dieter Felix Gerhardt (born 1 November 1935) is a former commodore in the South African Navy and commander of the strategic Simon's Town naval dockyard.

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Direction de la surveillance du territoire

The Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (DST; Directorate of Territorial Surveillance) was a directorate of the French National Police operating as a domestic intelligence agency.

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Emir Kusturica

Emir Kusturica (Емир Кустурица; born 24 November 1954) is a Bosnian-born Serbian film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and musician.

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Engineer

Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the limitations imposed by practicality, regulation, safety and cost.

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Espionage

Espionage, spying, or intelligence gathering is the act of obtaining secret or confidential information (intelligence).

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Farewell (2009 film)

Farewell (L'affaire Farewell; literally The Farewell Affair) is a 2009 French espionage thriller film directed by Christian Carion, starring Guillaume Canet and Emir Kusturica.

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Farewell Dossier

The Farewell Dossier was the collection of documents that Colonel Vladimir Vetrov, a KGB defector "en place" (code-named "Farewell"), gathered and gave to the Direction de la surveillance du territoire (DST) in 1981–82, during the Cold War.

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Federation of American Scientists

The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) is an American nonprofit global policy think tank with the stated intent of using science and scientific analysis to attempt to make the world more secure.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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France 5

France 5 is a French free-to-air public television channel, part of the France Télévisions group.

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GRU (Soviet Union)

Main Intelligence Directorate (ˈglavnəjə rɐzˈvʲɛdɨvətʲɪlʲnəjə ʊprɐˈvlʲenʲɪjə), abbreviated GRU (p), was the foreign military intelligence agency of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces until 1991.

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Guillaume Canet

Guillaume Canet (born 10 April 1973) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter, and show jumper.

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IMDb

IMDb (an acronym for Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews.

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Intelligence agency

An intelligence agency is a government agency responsible for the collection, analysis, and exploitation of information in support of law enforcement, national security, military, public safety, and foreign policy objectives.

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KGB

The Committee for State Security (Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti (KGB)) was the main security agency for the Soviet Union from 13 March 1954 until 3 December 1991.

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Le Figaro

() is a French daily morning newspaper founded in 1826.

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Line X

Line X was a section of the KGB First Chief Directorate residency organization assigned to acquire Western technology for the Directorate of Scientific and Technical Intelligence (Directorate "T").

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Maksim Moshkow

Maksim Eugenievich Moshkow (Максим Евгеньевич Мошков, born 13 October 1966 in Moscow) is a public figure of the Russian Internet segment, the Runet.

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A median strip, central reservation, roadway median, or traffic median is the reserved area that separates opposing lanes of traffic on divided roadways such as divided highways, dual carriageways, freeways, and motorways.

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Montreal

Montreal is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest in Canada, and the tenth-largest in North America.

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Moscow

Moscow is the capital and largest city of Russia.

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NATO

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO; Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance of 32 member states—30 European and 2 North American.

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NPR

National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Sabotage

Sabotage is a deliberate action aimed at weakening a polity, government, effort, or organization through subversion, obstruction, demoralization, destabilization, division, disruption, or destruction.

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Science

Science is a strict systematic discipline that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the world.

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South African Navy

The South African Navy (SA Navy) is the naval warfare branch of the South African National Defence Force.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Supreme Court of the Soviet Union

The Supreme Court of the Soviet Union, officially the Supreme Court of the USSR (Верховный Суд СССР) was the highest court of the Soviet Union during its existence.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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Thomson-CSF

Thomson-CSF was a French company that specialized in the development and manufacture of electronics with a heavy focus upon the aerospace and defence sectors of the market.

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Video

Video is an electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving visual media.

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Viktor Suvorov

Vladimir Bogdanovich Rezun (Владимир Богданович Резун; Володи́мир Богда́нович Рєзу́н; born 20 April 1947), known by his pseudonym of Viktor Suvorov (Виктор Суворов) is a former Soviet GRU officer who is the author of non-fiction books about World War II, the GRU and the Soviet Army, as well as fictional books about the same and related subjects.

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VK (service)

VK (short for its original name VKontakte; ВКонтакте, meaning InContact) is a Russian online social media and social networking service based in Saint Petersburg.

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Western world

The Western world, also known as the West, primarily refers to various nations and states in the regions of Australasia, Western Europe, and Northern America; with some debate as to whether those in Eastern Europe and Latin America also constitute the West.

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Wojciech Jaruzelski

Wojciech Witold Jaruzelski (6 July 1923 – 25 May 2014) was a Polish military general, politician and de facto leader of the Polish People's Republic from 1981 until 1989.

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Xavier Ameil

Xavier Ameil (7 January 1923 – 18 April 2021) was a French engineer.

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See also

Executed Soviet people

People convicted of murder by the Soviet Union

People executed for treason against the Soviet Union

Soviet people convicted of murder

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Vetrov

Also known as Farewell affair, Vladimir I. Vetrov, Владимир Ветров.