Vasili Mitrokhin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Vasili Mitrokhin

KGB officer

Date of Birth: 03-Mar-1922

Place of Birth: Ryazansky District, Ryazan Oblast, Ryazan Oblast, Russia

Date of Death: 23-Jan-2004

Profession: writer, archivist, spy

Nationality: United Kingdom, Russia

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Vasili Nikitich Mitrokhin (Russian: ????´??? ????´??? ?????´???; March 3, 1922 – January 23, 2004) was a major and senior archivist for the Soviet Union's foreign intelligence service, the First Chief Directorate of the KGB, who defected to the United Kingdom in 1992 after providing the British embassy in Riga with a vast collection of KGB files, which became known as the Mitrokhin Archive.
The intelligence files given by Mitrokhin to the MI6 exposed an unknown number of Russian agents, including Melita Norwood.He was co-author with Christopher Andrew of The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West, a massive account of Soviet intelligence operations based on copies of material from the archive.
The second volume, The Mitrokhin Archive II: The KGB in the World, was published in 2005, soon after Mitrokhin's death.