Vladimir Pasechnik
Soviet biologist whose defection exposed a massive bioweapons program.
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Vladimir Artemovich Pasechnik was a senior Soviet biologist and bioweaponeer who defected to the United Kingdom in 1989. His defection alerted Western intelligence to the vast scope of Moscow's clandestine biological warfare program, known as Biopreparat. His revelations that the program was ten times larger than previously suspected were later confirmed by the defection of Colonel Kanatjan Alibekov.
Quick Facts
- Full name
- Vladimir Artemovich Pasechnik
- Born
- 12 October 1937
- Died
- 21 November 2001
- Nationality
- Soviet
- Occupation
- Senior biologist and bioweaponeer
- Defection year
- 1989
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