Yuri Modin
Female, Person
1922 –
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Who is Yuri Modin?
Yuri Modin was the KGB controller for the "Cambridge Five" from 1944 to 1955, during which period Donald MacLean was said to have passed atomic secrets to the Soviets. In 1951 Modin arranged the defections of Maclean and Guy Burgess. Modin's predecessors in control of the damaging Cambridge spy ring were executed.
Modin said of Kim Philby in Feb 1994 that
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