Vasyl Yurchenko (Russian: Василий Юрченко)(alternate spellings: Vasily Yurchenko, Vasiliy Jurtzhenko; born 26 May 1950) is a Soviet-born Ukrainian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the early 1980s.
After 25 years of service in the KGB, he allegedly defected to the United States during an assignment in Rome on August 1, 1985, arriving the following day. [1 ] After providing the names of two U.S.