Former KGB Major Escaped from USSR Dies in USA

It is reported by The Washington Post.

It is noted that since the escape, Sheimov lived all his life in the United States.

While serving in the KGB, he worked in the eighth main department, which was engaged in encryption, communications and technical security.

It is clarified that the cause of death was a complication of lung disease.

On June 17, in Moscow, at the age of 93, the former first deputy chairman of the KGB of the USSR and the head of the fifth, so-called ideological department, Army General Philip Bobkov died.