Grigori Weaver (10 November 1936-), born Grigori Tkach, was a CIA special agent during the Cold War. Born in the Soviet Union, he defected to the United States alongside his mother after his father was killed in the Great Purge, and he took part in numerous special operations against the USSR duirng the 1960s.
Biography[]
Grigori Tkach was born in the Russian SFSR of the Soviet Union on 10 November 1936, the son of Bolshevik politician Gedeon Tkach. His father was executed by the NKVD during the Great Purge, as he was opposed to Joseph Stalin's rule, and Tkach and his mother defected to the United States during World War II. Tkach decided to join the Central Intelligence Agency, and his identity was changed for his job; his CIA dossier named him as "Georgi Weaver" and stated that he was born in Portland, Oregon.
In 1963, Weaver was sent to infiltrate the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Kazakh SSR to prevent the Soviets from launching one of their Soyuz rockets, but he was compromised and captured by Lev Kravchenko. Kravchenko cut his left eye out with a knife when Weaver's CIA team refused to respond to him over the radio, and the CIA team would rescue Weaver from a building where he was held. Weaver would be paired with Jason Hudson to carry out operations against Nikita Dragovich's Project Nova in 1968, taking part in raids on Kowloon, Mount Yamantau, and Vozrozhdeniye Island before ending Dragovich's plans during the Rusalka crisis. Weaver was later wanted by the CIA for his association with Alex Mason, who was deemed to be a security risk due to his mental instability, and Weaver, Mason, and Jason Hudson fled to South Africa so that the CIA would not murder them; Weaver was last reported as alive in 1978.
The three survived and were recruited once more to the CIA. In 1983, he was assigned as the leader of Requiem, a task force dedicated to investigating the paranormal.