# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yury-drozdov-q3572905
# Generated: 2026-08-16T04:00:31.092Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yury-drozdov-q3572905"
name: "Yury Drozdov"
slug: "yury-drozdov-q3572905"
description: "Yuri Ivanovich Drozdov was a Soviet security official. In 1979, he led Operation Storm-333, formally triggering the Soviet–Afghan War. Later, as a high-level agent of the KGB, he oversaw the execution of the \"Illegals Program\" in the United States from 1979 until 1991. Drozdov was a recipient of the Order of Lenin, which was conferred to him in 1981."
tagline: "Belarusian military personnel (1925–2017)"
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gender: "male"
profileType:
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birthDate: "1925-09-19"
deathDate: "2017-06-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             14.50980392156863
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump