In 1985, Vitaly Yurchenko defected to the United States and, among other things, recalled that he had met with a former NSA analyst in 1980 and described him as red-haired.
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He was debriefed by KGB officer Vitaly Yurchenko and disclosed Operation Ivy Bells, an NSA and United States Navy program to surreptitiously wiretap undersea cables to monitor Soviet military communications and track Soviet submarines.
Vitaly Yurchenko | Vitaly Petrov | Vitaly Ginzburg | Vitaly Daraselia | Vitaly Solomin | Vitaly Scherbo | Vitaly Rudakovskiy | Vitaly Popkov | Vitaly Kaloyev | Vitaly Efimov | Natalia Yurchenko | Mykola Yurchenko |