Michael Goleniewski
Polish spy (1922 – 1993) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Michał Franciszek Goleniewski, a.k.a. 'SNIPER', 'LAVINIA', (16 August 1922 – 12 July 1993), was an officer in the Polish People's Republic's Ministry of Public Security, deputy head of military counterintelligence GZI WP, later head of the Polish Intelligence technical and scientific section, and in the 1950s a spy for the Soviet government.
In 1959 he became a "triple agent", giving Polish and Soviet secrets to the Central Intelligence Agency that directly exposed George Blake and Harry Houghton. In 1961 Goleniewski defected to the United States.
He later made unsubstantiated claims to be Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia.[1]