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To: unclewest who wrote (110113)	4/19/2005 12:28:11 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793769

All of our best defectors were "walk ins." The one John and I am talking about, Victor Sheymov, was the highest ranking KGB ever to come over. He was a colonel in charge of setting up and checking out all embassy code rooms for the Russians. Never allowed out of Soviet sight or allowed to meet a foreingner. He couldn't connect with an American agent in Moscow, where he was stationed, so he slipped out to the American Embassy in Warsaw while on a trip there, and then arranged to defect with his wife and child though Czechoslovakia. To top it off, he left in such a way as to convince his bosses that he and his family had drowned while on vacation. They didn't change their codes and setup for a year after he defected.