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Viktor Vladimirov was aSovietLieutenant general, diplomat, andKGB officer operating inFinland.
He was the head ofthe KGBassassination andsabotage section, the13th Department in the 1960s. It is believed that Vladimirov was involved in a failed KGB operation to murder former KGB officerAnatoliy Golitsyn in Canada who had defected from Finland to the United States.[1]
He served in the Soviet embassy in Finland in the 1950s, 1970s, and 1980s. He was the top "kotiryssä" ("home Russian") in Finland. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, he published his memoir "Näin se oli" in 1993. Vladimirov died in 1995.
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