Nicholas Shadrin

Nicholas George Shadrin, born Nikolai Fedorovich Artamonov (1922 – December 1975 Stationed in Gdynia, Poland in 1959, he fell in love with a Polish woman, Ewa Gora. With Navy restrictions and Gora's family's anti-communism making marriage impossible, the two defected by commandeering a naval launch to Sweden. Later, with ONI not granting Shadrin higher level security clearances, he was assigned to translation in the Defense Intelligence Agency. Later, Oleg Kalugin stated that Shadrin had died an accidental death during the kidnapping, apparently of a heart attack.

According to former CIA counterintelligence officer Tennent H. Bagley, James Angleton had warned Shadrin's American handlers, CIA officer Bruce Solie and FBI agent Elbert Turner, to not let him travel out of the United States, but they allowed him to go to Canada in 1971 to meet with the KGB and let him travel to Vienna, Austria, in December 1975 to meet with his KGB recruiter, Igor Kochnov.