Aleksander Kopatzky

Aleksander Grigoryevich Kopatzky (Russian: Александр Григорьевич Копацкий; 1923-1982) was a Soviet double agent who was belatedly uncovered in 1965 by possible KGB "mole" Bruce Solie[1] in CIA's mole-hunting Office of Security five years after he (Kopatzky / Orlov) had retired from the CIA.

[2] In 1941, after the start of the German-Soviet War, Kopazky (who, since his first name was Alexandr, was often referred to as "Sasha") attended a Soviet training school for agents of the NKVD.

In October 1943 he was on a parachute jump, with a radio, over occupied Kresy, but the German Wehrmacht arrested him, and he was taken as a prisoner-of-war.

In 1954 the CIA, which was planning on bringing Koischwitz / Kopatzky to the U.S. for training, changed his name to Igor Orlov because he'd been imprisoned for drunk driving in Germany and the Agency didn't want this fact to come to the attention of U.S. immigration authorities.

Angleton searched for "Sasha" for several years but never found him, possibly because Solie was, according to John M. Newman probably a KGB "mole," himself, and had deleted Orlov's former name, Alexandr ("Sasha") Kopatzky, from the list of suspected moles he showed to Golitsyn four days after he had arrived in the U.S. (Golitsyn chose the name of Serge Karlow from the list, instead, probably because he had been stationed in Germany, was already suspected of being a KGB agent in the Operation Easy Chair case, and his original name was Klibansky.