Arrest and Execution
Polyakov was arrested by the KGB in 1986, six years after his retirement from the GRU . His contacts at the CIA had no information about what might have happened to him. Only later, it became clear that he was betrayed by both Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames. In 1988 Polyakov was sentenced to death for treason and executed.
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