Col. George Trofimoff
Colonel George Trofimoff was a former United States military intelligence officer of Russian descent. He was convicted in a U.S. Federal court as a spy for the Soviet Union during the 1970s and ’80s. He was sentenced to life imprisonment on September 27, 2001. George Trofimoff is the most senior officer in U.S. military history to be charged with or convicted of espionage.
Former KGB General Oleg Kalugin, who had been head of the foreign counterintelligence, or K branch, of the KGB First Chief Directorate. Upon being asked whether he knew the name of Agent “Markiz,” Kalugin responded “Yes. I did. His name was George Trofimoff. “General Kalugin further described his own alleged meeting with Col. Trofimoff at a location in Austria.
In 2002 he was put on trial in absentia in Moscow and found guilty of spying for the West. He was sentenced to fifteen years in jail, in a verdict he described as “Soviet justice, which is really triumphant today.” The US and Russia have no extradition treaty. Kalugin currently works for the Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies
Colonel George Vladimirovich Trofimoff died in Federal Prison on September 19, 2014.
