"Col Shcherbakov had a senior role in Russia's foreign intelligence agency, [Russian business daily] Kommersant says; his job: to plant moles in the United States, secret agents deep under cover." His first name, as well as his (now likely altered) appearance, remain state secrets. His motives are clearer: Col Shcherbakov defected to the United States just days before Presidents Dimitry Medvedev and Barack Obama met in June, on the even of the first official US meeting between the two heads of state.
Col Shcherbakov even "visited one of the arrested spies, Mikhail Vasenkov, in prison to try to convince him to confess." When the spy, alias Juan Lazaro, insisted to US authorities that he wasn't Russian, Col Shcherbakov "then presented Mr Vasenkov's dossier to US officials."
Col Shcherbakov's daughter already resides in the United States, where she attended an unnamed university.
Jacob Nelson
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