Description: (Former Major in the KGB between 1980 and 1990)
Yuri Borysovych Shvets is a former Soviet intelligence officer of Ukrainian origin who served as a Major in the KGB from 1980 to 1990. He was assigned as a resident spy in Washington, D.C. from April 1985 to 1987, working under the guise of a correspondent for TASS, a Soviet state-owned news agency. Shvets collected intelligence and information relevant to his duties as a KGB officer, supporting Soviet intelligence operations in the United States during that period.