Gennadi Zakharov
Gennadi Fyodorovich Zakharov (born around 1947) was a Soviet physicist who worked for the United Nations. In 1986, he was arrested in New York City in a sting operation by the FBI.
A Guyanese student known as C.S. (Leakh Bhoge), who had helped Zakharov with his studies and helped him get a job with a defense subcontractor, met him in a Queens subway station. C.S. handed Zakharov an envelope with classified documents about United States Air Force jet engines in exchange for $1,000. FBI agents arrested Zakharov on the spot and revealed that C.S. was an undercover FBI informant. Zakharov learned that the plan to steal secret U.S. information had failed.
Three days later, the KGB arrested American journalist Nicholas Daniloff in Moscow on espionage charges. After talks between the United States and the Soviet Union, Daniloff and Zakharov were exchanged without charges.
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