Yuri Modin

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Yuri Ivanovich Modin (8 November 1922 in Suzdal – 2007 in Moscow) was a Russian KGB agent, best known as 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. He worked extensively within the KGB’s operations, including disinformation campaigns and active measures. 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. In his 1994 book, Modin revealed that in the early days...

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