Yuri Drozdov, Soviet spymaster who planted agents across the West, dies at 91 June 21, 2017 More than 7 years ago The headquarters of the KGB, in Moscow, in 1972.

MOSCOW — Yuri Drozdov, the Soviet spymaster who oversaw a sprawling network of KGB agents abroad, died Wednesday. He was 91. The Foreign Intelligence Service, a KGB successor agency known ...

Yuri Drozdov once said it could take up to seven years to train an "illegal", the Soviet spies planted abroad under false or assumed identities, sometimes for decades. As former chief of the KGB ...