Fascinating!-----The Amazing Story of the Russian Defector Who Changed his Mind - Washingtonian

A saga from the last time Moscow's spies menaced Washington—and the lessons we forgot. - Jason Fagone | Published on February 18, 2018

• The home phone of FBI special agent Michael Rochford rang in the middle of the night on August 2, 1985. 

He grabbed it and heard the voice of his FBI supervisor. 

• “There’s a plane coming in, a high-level defector.” 
• The day before, a Soviet man had walked into the US consulate in Rome. 
• He had told American officials he was a colonel in the KGB and wanted to defect to the United States. The man promised to reveal Soviet secrets in exchange for a new life in the West...