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776: 60: 410:, William Halal, who participated in the 2008 World Future Society conference. Halal described his relationship with Heathfield as warm. "I came across him at meetings in federal agencies, thought factories, and the World Future Society. I do not know anything that could be of interest from a security perspective. Everything that I provided to Don was published and available via the Internet. " 526: 793:
The Heathfield and Foley children maintained that they never knew their parents were Russian spies and never heard them speak in Russian. At the time of their parents' arrest, they were 16 and 20 years old. Their Canadian citizenships were revoked on the grounds that the children of foreign diplomats
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written together with Andrey Bronnikov, a special forces veteran. It offers a rare glimpse into the training of the Soviet illegals, including evading surveillance, coding messages, studying maps and cryptography, learning foreign languages, establishing a cover story and performing missions abroad
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In 2021 Elena Vavilova published her second novel in Russian “The Encrypted Heart” that tells a story of a female Russian illegal sent on a mission to Hong Kong under the name of Stella Lei and her love affair with a French man. Elena often gives lectures within youth organizations and conducts
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Under the assumed name of Donald Howard Heathfield, together with his wife Elena Vavilova, he lived in several nations outside of the Soviet Union for more than 20 years, engaged in illegal intelligence activities. According to his undercover identity, Heathfield was the son of a
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as "a factory of thought for new technologies, at a conference of which leading experts in the field of public administration come together". Because of this, Heathfield was able to make numerous acquaintances. In particular, he was familiar with
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on current topics. As of August 2019, Bezrukov was continuing his teaching career and doing consulting work for an oil company while Vavilova "also has a consultancy role at a company", according to
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with a degree in history via a distance learning program. While studying there, she met her future husband. After they married, they moved to Moscow to begin their training as
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seminars on leadership and networking. Together with her husband she developed the course “Strategic Networking” that they teach at the prestigious “Orator Club” in Moscow.
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Since the late 1980s, for almost 25 years she worked as a deep-cover intelligence officer in several countries under the name of Tracy Lee Ann Foley. Her husband,
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From May 2000 to May 2006 he worked as a partner in the consulting company Global Partners Inc., whose clients were well-known companies such as
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magazine in 2012. He has also given several other interviews in local media. Today, he regularly leads a column in the business newspaper
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On June 27, 2010, after a decade of surveillance, Vavilova and her husband were arrested at their Cambridge townhouse as part of an
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with her husband, and has since become a writer. The family served as the inspiration for the main characters in the TV show
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carried out by US surveillance agencies. They were then released to Russian authorities as part of a prisoner exchange in
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to collect intelligence. The book was presented at the press conference of the largest Russian news agency
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Illegals Program § Andrey Bezrukov and Yelena Vavilova (Donald Heathfield and Tracey Lee Ann Foley)
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noted that Heathfield kept up to date regarding the lives of his classmates, including future
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are not entitled to citizenship even if born on Canadian soil. The younger son, Alex,
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In June 2010 he was arrested in the United States along with his wife as part of an
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After returning to Russia, Bezrukov and his wife were awarded the
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Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland"
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Russia and the World in 2020. The contours of a troubled future
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4th Class. He was also appointed adviser to the president of
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Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) v Vavilov
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and, before settling in the United States, had lived in
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with a degree in history, where he met his future wife.
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Andrei Olegovich Bezrukov was born on 30 August 1960 in
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From 1999 onwards, he lived in the 7: 347:John F. Kennedy School of Government 919:(in Russian). Iz.ru. 4 October 2017 728:Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" 453:Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" 286:. From 1978 to 1983 he studied at 161:Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" 959:"Вавилова Светлана Константиновна" 14: 463:. In 2015, he published the book 406:, and professor of management at 345:. In 2000, he graduated from the 337:, receiving a master's degree in 261: 142: 1052:Walker, Shaun (23 August 2019). 917:"Ким Филби как феномен служения" 319:From 1992 to 1995 he studied in 1131:"Стратегический нетворкинг 4.0" 711:In 1999, the family settled in 413:Bezrukov and his wife lived in 380:. 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Index

Illegals Program § Andrey Bezrukov and Yelena Vavilova (Donald Heathfield and Tracey Lee Ann Foley)
Eastern Slavic naming customs
patronymic
family name

Kansk
Krasnoyarsk Krai
Russian SFSR
Tomsk State University
Harvard Kennedy School
Elena Stanislavovna Vavilova
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland"
Soviet Union
Russia
KGB
First Chief Directorate
Foreign Intelligence Service
Colonel
sleeper agent
KGB
SVR
disclosure in the United States
Elena Stanislavovna Vavilova
Kansk
Krasnoyarsk Krai
Tomsk State University
Canadian
diplomat
Czech Republic
Harvard

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