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Oleg Lyalin

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His defection came about after he was arrested in London by policeman Charles Shearer for drunk driving in the early morning of 31 August 1971. He was put in jail immediately as he refused to cooperate with police and lacked diplomatic immunity. His bail of £50 was paid by the Soviet Trade Delegation
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and his drunk driving-case was eventually dropped as he decided to defect. He offered to disclose information about KGB activities in exchange for a new life with his (Russian) secretary, Irina Teplyakova, with whom he had begun an affair and took political asylum in August 1972. Lyalin later
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revealed that his mission was to spy across the Midlands while posing as a textile buyer, and that there was a plan to infiltrate agents disguised as official messengers into
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Lyalin was given a new identity by MI5 and married Teplyakova. He remained in hiding in northern England until his death on 12 February 1995 after a long illness.
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The expulsion of 105 officials was the single biggest action taken against the Soviet Union by any western government.
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in the 1960s, posing as an official with the Soviet Trade Delegation.
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Russian
Soviet
agent
defected
KGB
Britain
London
MI5
Whitehall
ru:Пятое управление КГБ СССР
Sir Alec Douglas-Home
Labour
List of Eastern Bloc defectors
List of KGB defectors
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ISBN
978-5-7654-4469-6
Encyclopedia of Cold War Espionage, Spies, and Secret Operations
ISBN
978-1-936-27426-0
"1971: 'I arrested a KGB superspy'"
"Oleg Lyalin, 57, A K.G.B. Defector"
Encyclopedia of Political Assassinations
ISBN
978-1-538-10239-8
"Old fashioned Cold War weapon aimed at modern problem"
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