Michael Goleniewski

Michał Goleniewski
Personal details
Born	16 August 1922 Nyasvizh, Second Polish Republic
Died	2 July 1993(1993-07-02) (aged 70) New York, United States of America
Awards	Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta
Military service
Allegiance	Ministry of Public Security Main Directorate of Information of the Polish Army 1st Department of Ministry of Interior CIA
Years of service	1945–1961
Rank	Lieutenant colonel

Michał Franciszek Goleniewski, also known as 'SNIPER' and 'LAVINIA' (16 August 1922 – 12 July 1993), was an officer in the Polish People's Republic's Ministry of Public Security, deputy head of military counterintelligence GZI WP, later head of the Polish Intelligence technical and scientific section, and in the 1950s a spy for the Soviet government.

In 1959 he became a "triple agent", giving Polish and Soviet secrets to the Central Intelligence Agency that directly exposed George Blake and Harry Houghton. In 1961 Goleniewski defected to the United States.

He later made unsubstantiated claims to be Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia.^[1]