Gennadi Fyodorovich[1] Zakharov (born c. 1947[2]) was a Soviet physicist who worked for the United Nations who was arrested in a sting operation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 1986.
handed over an envelope that contained classified documents describing United States Air Force jet engines in exchange for $1,000 in cash.
Immediately after the exchange, agents of the FBI swarmed around Zakharov, subduing him and shackling him in handcuffs.
was working undercover with the FBI and that his plan to steal secret technical information from the United States had failed.
[4] The KGB retaliated to this incident by arresting Nicholas Daniloff, an American journalist, three days later in Moscow charging him with espionage.