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double-agent working as a translator for the CIA, and he was arrested in 1977. During his interrogation, Ogorodnik offered to write a full confession and asked for his pen. When the interrogator handed him the pen with the hidden cyanide pill in the cap, Ogorodnik bit on it and died soon after. He
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He died without knowing the existence of his daughter, Alejandra Suárez Barcala, who was born from his romance in Bogotá with a Spanish woman, Pilar Suárez Barcala, who helped the CIA in Ogorodnik's recruitment.
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He initially showed little promise and claimed he knew only of Colombian political affairs. He was later transferred to the
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Ogorodnik's espionage activity was revealed to the KGB by
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to be used in the event that he was caught. His chief CIA
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