# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vitaly-yurchenko
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:25:28.442Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vitaly-yurchenko"
name: "Vitaly Yurchenko"
slug: "vitaly-yurchenko"
description: "Vitaly Sergeyevich Yurchenko is a former high-ranking KGB disinformation officer in the Soviet Union. After 25 years of service in the KGB, he apparently defected to the United States during an assignment in Rome on August 1, 1985, arriving the following day. After providing the names of two U.S. intelligence officers as KGB agents, asserting that Yuri Nosenko was a true defector, and claiming that Lee Harvey Oswald was never recruited by the KGB, Yurchenko slipped away from the Americans and returned to the Soviet Union."
tagline: "KGB officer"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1936-05-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.71
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.914773333333335
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  25
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%BB%B4%E5%A1%94%E5%88%A9%C2%B7%E5%B0%A4%E5%B0%94%E9%92%A6%E7%A7%91"
    title: "维塔利·尤尔钦科"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitaly_Yurchenko"
    title: "Vitaly Yurchenko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitali_Iourtchenko"
    title: "Vitali Iourtchenko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%99%D7%98%D7%9C%D7%99_%D7%99%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%A6'%D7%A0%D7%A7%D7%95"
    title: "ויטלי יורצ'נקו"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%82%BF%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A6%E3%83%AB%E3%83%81%E3%82%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B3"
    title: "ヴィタリー・ユルチェンコ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witalij_Jurczenko"
    title: "Witalij Jurczenko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AE%D1%80%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%BE%2C_%D0%92%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Юрченко, Виталий Сергеевич"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2620305"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump