# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexander-vassiliev
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:26:04.495Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alexander-vassiliev"
name: "Alexander Vassiliev"
slug: "alexander-vassiliev"
description: "Alexander Yuryevich Vassiliev is a Russian-British journalist, writer, and espionage historian living in London who is a subject matter expert in the Soviet KGB and Russian SVR. A former officer in the KGB, he is known for his two books based upon KGB archival documents: Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America, co-authored with John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, and The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America: the Stalin Era, co-authored with Allen Weinstein."
tagline: "Russian writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Vassiliev-Alexander.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1962-05-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             10.33112582781457
  historical:           7.226496
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Васильев, Александр Юрьевич (журналист)"
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    title: "الکساندر واسیلیف"
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    title: "Alexander Vassiliev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Vassiliev"
    title: "Alexandre Vassiliev"
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  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Vassiliev"
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    title: "Alexandre Vassiliev"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump