Vladimir Pasechnik

Vladimir Artemovich Pasechnik (12 October 1937 Stalingrad, USSR – 21 November 2001, Wiltshire, England) was a senior Soviet biologist and bioweaponeer who defected to the United Kingdom in 1989, alerting Western intelligence to the vast scope of Moscow's clandestine biological warfare (BW) programme, known as Biopreparat.^[1]^[2]^[3] His revelations that the program was ten times larger than previously suspected were confirmed in 1992 with the defection to the United States of Colonel Kanatjan Alibekov, the No. 2 scientist for the program.

^ Preston, Richard (9 March 1998). "THE BIOWEAPONEERS". pp. 52-65. The New Yorker.
^ Saxon, Wolfgang (23 November 2001). "V. Pasechnik, 64, Is Dead; Germ Expert Who Defected". The New York Times Company.
^ "Vladimir Pasechnik". Telegraph Media Group Limited. 29 November 2001.

[rpbio-1] Preston, Richard (9 March 1998). "THE BIOWEAPONEERS". pp. 52-65. The New Yorker.

[wsobit-2] Saxon, Wolfgang (23 November 2001). "V. Pasechnik, 64, Is Dead; Germ Expert Who Defected". The New York Times Company.

[dtobit-3] "Vladimir Pasechnik". Telegraph Media Group Limited. 29 November 2001.

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