December 14, 1994: George Trofimoff Arrested for Espionage

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🗓️ 14 December 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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67-year-old US Colonel George Trofimoff was arrested by German authorities on suspicion of spying for the Soviet Union. While the case against him fell apart shortly after his arrest, he wouldn't be so lucky upon his return to the United States. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today is Tuesday, December 14th, 2021.
0:07.0	On this day in 1994, US military intelligence officer George Trophimov was arrested by German federal police.
0:16.0	He was accused of spying on behalf of the Soviet Union for decades.
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0:58.0	Welcome to Today in True Crime, a Spotify original from Parcast. Today we're covering the arrest
1:04.3	of George Trofimov, a U.S. military intelligence officer and spy for the KGB. Let's go back to the morning of December 14, 1994,
1:15.1	in Nuremberg, Germany. It was just after 5 a.m. when Colonel George Trofimov's morning
1:23.0	shave was interrupted by a knock at the door. His wife, Yuda, had left for work a few minutes earlier,
1:29.6	so Trofimov assumed she'd forgotten something and come back to pick it up. The 67-year-old
1:35.1	walked to the door without bothering to get dressed, but his wife wasn't the one waiting there.
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