Saboteur, defector, psychic. The history of the Soviet spy that escaped in the United States

KGB building, 1964. Photo: Nikolai Malyshev / Tass / AFP

Foreign exploration agent of the KGB, a former art specialist Nikolai Khokhlov in 1954 became one of the first Soviet post -war defectors to the West. Khokhlov was instructed to kill one of the leaders of Russian emigration in Germany, but the agent, who was disappointed in the USSR, warned the victim and remained in the West. A few years later, the defector almost died from poisoning with radioactive tallium. His former colleagues allegedly stood for poisoning.

Like other defectors, Khokhlov, after the escape, made the exposures of Soviet intelligence. At the same time, he argued that the KGB was seriously engaged in the study of abnormal phenomena, the creation of “psychotron generators” and the like. Once in the USA, Khokhlov himself began to study parapsychology and even allegedly advised the American government on these issues. The history of the former agent recalls Atlas Obscura .

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