Leonid Kvasnikov
KGB officer
Died when: 88 years 135 days (1060 months)Star Sign: Gemini
Leonid Romanovich Kvasnikov (Russian: Леонид Романович Квасников; 2 June 1905 – 15 October 1993) was a Russian chemical engineer and a spy, serving first in NKVD and later served in KGB.
Graduated with honors from the in 1934 and worked as an engineer in a chemical plant for several years in the Tula region.
Kvasnikov continued postgraduate engineering studies and joined the KGB in 1938 as a specialist in scientific-technical intelligence.Beginning in 1939 he was the section head of scientific and technical intelligence.
Kvasnikov served a few short-term assignments in Germany and Poland and rising swiftly to become deputy chief and then chief of the KGB scientific intelligence section.
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