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Yuri Shvets

Former KGB officer

  • Audience1.6M
  • Fame69.5
  • Momentum0.0
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  • Audience1.6M
  • Fame69.5
  • Momentum0.0
  • Journalists rank#87
  • Wikipedia3.8K
Born 1953 · age 73
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    Born 1953
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Updated 2026-08-17

Yuri Borysovych Shvets is a former Soviet intelligence officer of Ukrainian origin. He was a Major in the KGB between 1980 and 1990. From April 1985 to 1987, he was a resident spy in Washington, D.C. While there, he held a cover job as a correspondent for TASS, a Soviet state-owned news agency. He left the KGB in September 1990.

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Source confidence85.0
Completeness80.0
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