Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen. Robert Ashley Jr., presents Dr. Blanka Shadrin a drawing of her husband, Nicholas Shadrin, after unveiling his plaque on the DIA Patriots Memorial
Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen. Robert Ashley Jr., presents Dr. Blanka Shadrin a drawing of her husband, Nicholas Shadrin, after unveiling his plaque on the DIA Patriots Memorial. After defecting from the Soviet Union, Nicholas Shadrin worked at DIA while also serving as a double agent for the FBI. On a mission in Vienna in 1975, Shadrin was abducted by the KGB and killed from a sedative overdose.