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Alexander Zaporozhsky

Zaporozhsky is a former KGB colonel who, started with the KGB in 1975 followed by the SVR and was responsible for the recruitment of informants in the United States and the Russians believe, ratted out FBI official Robert Hanssen as a double agent working for the Russians. The Associated Press also reports that he is believed to have helped expose Aldrich Ames, the CIA official convicted of passing secrets to the Russians in 1994. Zaporozhsky first began working with the CIA in 1995 and illegally left Russia in 1998 to move to Maryland, according to the Historical Dictionary of International Intelligence. After arriving in the United States, he worked for what the Russians believed to be a CIA front company. In November 2001 — nine months after Hanssen's arrest — Russian agents somehow lured Zaporozhsky back to his homeland, where he was promptly arrested. In 2003, he was sentenced to 18 years in prison. If it's true that Zaporozhsky gave up Hanssen and Ames, then he's one of the most valuable intelligence assets the United States had during the Cold War. Alexander Zaporozhsky (Russian: Александр Иванович Запорожский) is a former Colonel in Russia's SVR.

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Gennady Vasilenko

Zaporozhsky gave up Hanssen, and Hanssen gave up Vasilenko. Technically, Vasilenko, a retired KGB agent, was never convicted of espionage. But he made the mistake of becoming too friendly with a CIA agent named Jack Platt during a four-year posting to the Soviet Embassy in Washington in the 1970s and 1980s. Platt had targeted Vasilenko as a candidate for double-agent work, and though Vasilenko never provided any information, they became friends. In 1988, out of the blue, Russian agents arrested Vasilenko in Havana and brought him back to Moscow for questioning. He was detained for six months on suspicion of espionage, but later was freed without being charged. The reason for the sudden suspicion, Platt believes, was Hanssen: Shortly before Vasilenko's arrest, Platt had written a report about his attempts to recruit him. Around the same time, according to documents filed in the case against Hanssen, the FBI turncoat handed over a memo to his Russian handlers. Platt believes it was his report on Vasilenko. Improbably, Platt reconnected with Vasilenko after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and in 1993 the two men launched an international security firm called Securitar together. In 2006, at the age of 84, Vasilenko was convicted on a weapons charge and sentenced to three years in prison.

This story gets weirder and weirder the further I dig into it…

Skripal was part of this spy trade that happened

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I don't have my notes on this whole dig properly organized yet. Stumbled on the story digging on Brennan and got sidetracked into a whole 'nother story that ties into a very obscured consulting company hired by Trump after the election. Founded by Platt and Vasilenco