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Stanislav Lunev

Stanislav Lunev

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Stanislav Lunev is the highest-ranking Soviet military intelligence (GRU) officer ever to defect to the United States, recognized for his revelations about Russian espionage operations, sabotage plans, and covert activities on American soil. As a guest on late-night radio, his book Through the Eyes of the Enemy and his chilling firsthand accounts of Cold War-era intelligence operations provided an unprecedented insider's view of Soviet military strategy against the West.

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September 4, 1998: Russian Defector - Stanislav Lunev

Sep 4, 1998
2h 54m
Art Bell interviews Stanislav Lunev, Russia's highest-ranking military defector ever, a former GRU colonel who spent four years spying in Washington D.C. under cover as a TASS news agency correspondent. Lunev describes his intelligence work recruiting American agents and reveals why he chose to defect in 1992, citin...