Shevchenko, Arkady Nikolayevich

Shevchenko, Arkady Nikolayevich
▪ 1999

      Ukrainian-born Soviet diplomat who, as a UN undersecretary general, began passing secrets to the CIA in the 1970s and in 1978 sought asylum in the U.S., the highest-ranking Soviet official to have defected; his memoirs, Breaking with Moscow (1985), became a best-seller (b. Oct. 11, 1930, Horlivka, Ukraine—d. Feb. 28, 1998, Bethesda, Md.).

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