Yuri Modin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Yuri Modin

KGB officer

Date of Birth: 08-Nov-1922

Place of Birth: Suzdal, Vladimir Oblast, Russia

Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001

Profession: spy

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Yuri Modin (8 November 1922 in Suzdal – 2007 in Moscow) was the KGB controller for the "Cambridge Five" from 1948 to 1951, during which Donald Duart Maclean was said to have passed atomic secrets to the Soviets.
In 1951, Modin arranged the defections of Maclean and Guy Burgess.
Modin's predecessors in control of the damaging Cambridge spy ring were executed during Stalin's Great Purge. Modin said of Kim Philby in February 1994: He never revealed his true self.
Neither the British, nor the women he lived with, nor ourselves [the KGB] ever managed to pierce the armour of mystery that clad him.
His great achievement in espionage was his life's work, and it fully occupied him until the day he died.
But in the end I suspect that Philby made a mockery of everyone, particularly ourselves.