In the early morning of April 11, 1978, a bombshell news shocked the world.
Senior diplomat of the Soviet Union, then Deputy Secretary-General of the United NationsArkady Nikolayevich Shevchenko officially defected to the United States. He also became another Soviet ** who defected to the United States.
Shevchenko's defection came as a surprise, knowing that he had a bright future, if not in the Soviet Union.
What made Shevchenko give up his future in the USSR and betray the Motherland even without caring about his wife and son?
Shevchenko was born in 1930 in a small town in eastern Ukraine, and his family moved to Crimea.
As a teenager, Shevchenko experienced the brutal Soviet-German war, his father became a military doctor, and he and his mother were transferred to the rear. Since then, the family has lived a life of separation. His mother prayed every day for his father, who was on the front line, and he lived each day with trepidation.
Fortunately, after the war, my father returned safely, and the family was finally reunited.
After graduating from the Moscow Institute of International Relations in 1954, Shevchenko continued his studies as a graduate student. At the same time, by chance, he was able to get acquainted with the then First Deputy Minister of the Soviet UnionGromyco.
Gromyko was Shevchenko's nobleman because of his appreciationAfter graduating, Shevchenko successfully entered the Soviet Union
Entering *** was just a starting point in Shevchenko's political career.
In 1960, Khrushchev visited the United States, and Shevchenko was also a member of the delegation. In the course of his visit, Shevchenko again came into Khrushchev's field of vision.
Shevchenko not only has excellent work ability, but also has the advantage of being good at figuring out the mind of the leader, in the course of this visit to the United StatesKhrushchev personally appointed him head of the Department of Propaganda and Political Affairs of the Soviet delegation to the United States.
The young Shevchenko also represented the Soviet Union at the UN General Assembly, all of which meant that Shevchenko's career was bright and promising.
Shevchenko reached the pinnacle of his career in 1973 when he became UN Under-Secretary-General.
Because of their work, Shevchenko and his wife are based in New York, USA.
After living in the United States for a long time, the 43-year-old Shevchenko and his wife soon indulged in the glitz and glamour of New York. Over time, he gradually forgot about his homeland. In his eyes, Moscow was nothing more than a rural village.
Diplomats abroad have a term of office, as does the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations. Shevchenko had to face a problem, and as soon as his term expired, he would most likely have to return to the Soviet Union. Although returning to the Soviet Union is likely to continue to rise, Shevchenko is no longer able to leave the glitz and gloom of New York, and he is reluctant to return to that "countryside".
I don't want to go back, what should I do?
Shevchenko thought of defection.
In 1975, Shevchenko secretly applied for political asylum from the US Intelligence Agency.
The application startled the CIA, which, after several investigations, finally determined that Shevchenko really wanted to run.
However, the CIA did not accede to Shevchenko's request for political asylum, but asked Shevchenko to continue in the post of deputy secretary general of the United Nations in order to obtain confidential information about the Soviet Union for the United States.
There was no way, Shevchenko had to agree to the CIA.
Since 1975, Shevchenko has been a spy for the United States, passing on a large amount of classified Soviet intelligence to the United States. Shevchenko's betrayal caused the Soviet Union to have a large number of high-ranking spies in the United States**, and the bottom line of Soviet foreign policy was known to the United States in advance.
The Soviet Union also knew that something was wrong internally, but never suspected Shevchenko. Until a leak in 1978, only three Soviets knew about this level of intelligenceAnd Shevchenko is one of them.
Soviet intelligence devised a plan to deliver three different pieces of false information to three separate people, as a result of which the other two did not move, and Shevchenko obtained this false information passed on to the Americans.
There is no doubt that the traitor is Shevchenko.
The Soviet telegram first praised Shevchenko's work, and then asked him to return to his home for a meeting.
After Shevchenko became a spy, he was actually highly nervous inside. As soon as I heard that I wanted him to return to China, I was immediately scared, worried that I would not be able to come back if I went back.
In desperation, Shevchenko abandoned his wife and children, and escaped alone according to the route arranged by the CIA in advance, and successfully defected.
His wife and son were recalled to the country. A month later, Shevchenko's wife died, and the official Soviet explanation was that Shevchenko's wife could not bear the humiliation of her husband's betrayal of the motherland and chose to commit suicide by poisoning; And their sons have been living under surveillance and isolation for a long time.
Shepchenko, who fled to the United States, had a very prosperous life in the United States. It's just that Shevchenko in his later years had no children and no daughters, and he didn't have a single relative around him.
On February 28, 1998, the lonely Shevchenko died in Maryland, USA.