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Goleniewski, Michal, 1922-1993

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Personal name headingGoleniewski, Michal, 1922-1993
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Birth date19220816
Death date19930712
Found inThe spy who would be tsar, 2021: title page (Michal Goleniewski)
Wikipedia, January 21, 2021 (Michael Goleniewski(16 August 1922-12 July 1993), was a Polish officer in the People's Republic of Poland's Ministry of Public Security, the deputy head of military counterintelligence GZI WP, later head of the technical and scientific section of the Polish intelligence, and a spy for the Soviet government during the 1950s. In 1959, he became a triple-agent, giving Polish and Soviet secrets to the Central Intelligence Agency, which directly caused the exposure of George Blake and Harry Houghton. Goleniewski defected to the United States in 1961. He later claimed to be Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia.)