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Tolkachev, Adolf, 1927-1986

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Found inHoffman, David E. The billion dollar spy, 2015: ECIP data view (Adolf Tolkachev; engineer at a military research center in the Soviet Union; he cracked open the secret Soviet military research establishment, using his access to hand over tens of thousands of pages of material about the latest advances in aviation technology, alerting the Americans to possible developments years in the future; he was one of the most productive and valuable spies ever to work for the United States in the four decades of global confrontation with the Soviet Union) galley (Tolkachev, Adolf Georgievich; born in 1927 in the city of Aktyubinsk, Kazakhskaya SSR; since 1929, he lived in Moscow; in 1948, he completed the optical-mechanical tekhnikum (radar department) and in 1954, the Kharkovskiy Politechnicheskiy Institute (radio-technical department; since 1954, he worked at the NIIR (P.O. Box A-1427); in 1978, he was working in a combined laboratory in the position of leading designer; on October 22, 1986, the Soviet news agency Tass announced that Tolkachev had been executed for high treason in the form of spying)