About Gennadi Zakharov
Gennadi Zakharov was a physicist and diplomat.
Gennadi Fyodorovich Zakharov (born ) was a Soviet physicist who worked for the United Nations who was arrested in a sting operation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 1986.
In 1986, a Guyanese student named Leakh Bhoge,
The KGB retaliated to this incident by arresting Nicholas Daniloff, an American journalist, three days later in Moscow charging him with espionage. After a hectic discussion between the two governments, the two men were exchanged without pressing any charges.
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