(Encyclopedia Astronautica) wrote


"...After studying the list of hundreds of Soviet agents and
purchasers (including one cosmonaut) assigned to this penetration in
the U.S. and Japan, Weiss counseled against deportation..."

Now some cosmonauts were known GRU, but any idea which one was
recruited for this KGB operation?


According to http://www.loyola.edu/dept/politics/...ll_dossier.pdf
(p.123; PDF p.3) it was one of the Apollo-Soyuz cosmonauts or, I'd
suppose, one of their back-ups. See
http://pages.prodigy.net/pxkb94ars/Astro_ASTP.htm for a list of
possibilities.