Mikhail Semenko was a Russian SVR agent who participated in the "Illegals Program" sleeper cell operation in the United States until his deportation in 2010.
Biography[]
Mikhail Semenko was born in the Russian SFSR of the Soviet Union, and he was recruited into the SVR. He studied for one year at the Harbin Institute of Technology before going to school in the United States, and he worked for the Conference Board in New York City and later for a travel agency in Arlington, Virginia. On 26 June 2010, he was arrested by the FBI after dropping off money for fellow sleeper agents in a sting operation, and he was deported to Russia.