Ivan Vladimirovich Egorov (1977 - 2018) was Deputy Director of the SVR who was executed in 2018 after he was framed for General Vladimir A. Korchnoi's leaks.
Biography[]
Ivan Vladimirovich Egorov was born in the Russian SFSR of the Soviet Union in 1977, the son of Vladimir Egorov and the brother of Nina; he was the uncle of famed ballerina Dominika Egorova. Egorov rose in the ranks of the Soviet intelligence services before becoming an SVR, and he became Deputy Director of the SVR during the 2010s. In 2018, he recruited his niece to help him with his assassination of Russian Mafia boss Dmitri Ustinov, and General Vladimir A. Korchnoi forced him to recruit her into the SVR as the only alternative to her being killed as a witness to Ustinov's death. After Dominika attended State School 4, Egorov had her travel to Budapest, Hungary under the false name "Katarina Zubkova" and seduce CIA agent Nate Nash to discover the identity of high-ranking SVR mole "Marble". However, she was later interrogated and tortured after she was suspected of becoming a double agent, and, when she discovered that Korchnoi was the mole, she was asked by Korchnoi to report him to the SVR before becoming the new mole.
Death[]
Egorov's body on the tarmac
However, Egorova instead fabricated her own uncle's guilt; during Egorov's previous surprise visit to Budapest, she had memorized his passport number, and she used it to open a bank account in Budapest into which the Americans transferred $250,000 (meant for her, but signed in his name). In addition, SVR contact Stephanie Boucher's CDs, which were supposed to have contained US Department of Defense secrets, turned out to have an origin in Langley, the CIA headquarters; Egorova had switched out the DOD disks for CIA-supplied ones. Finally, Nash's Metka business card was found in Egorov's apartment, sealing SVR Director Kiril Zakharov's conviction that Egorov was the mole. He had Egorov arrested and tortured, and he was sent to Budapest's airport for a "spy swap" with Egorova, who was in Hungarian custody. As the uncle and daughter saw each other, Egorov said, "You killed me," and he kissed her on the cheek. As he walked towards the Americans, he was shot in the side of the head by a Russian sniper, and Egorova left in the Russian helicopter. Egorov was framed as "Marble", and his death was actually a major loss for the Russians.