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Vitaly Yurchenko, KGB colonel defected to the United States in 1985. On August 1, 1985, Yurchenko walked into the US Embassy in Rome and defected to the CIA. November 2, 1985, while being escorted by a CIA guard, Yurchenko ran through the kitchen and out of a Georgetown restaurant.
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Yurchenko later turned up at the Soviet residential compound in Washington claiming he had been drugged, kidnapped and held in forced isolation at a CIA house in Fredericksberg, Virginia. From Yurchenko, the CIA had learned that Edward Howard was a spy selling information to the KGB. Also exposed was NSA official Ronald Pelton.
Yurchenko later returned to the Soviet Union. It was believed that he was shot, but was later seen working as a Russian intelligence instructor where he has no access to confidential material or files.
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