Any person at least once in his life, especially in childhood, wants to look into tomorrow. Over time, this desire weakens, but there are people for whom the ability to predict the near and distant future becomes a profession and a vocation of life. One of them is Andrei Olegovich Bezrukov, colonel of the Foreign Intelligence Service, who lived outside Russia for more than twenty years, engaged in illegal intelligence activities.
Biography
Andrei Bezrukov was born on August 30, 1960 in the city of Kansk, Krasnoyarsk Territory. From 1978 to 1983 he studied at Tomsk State University with a degree in history.
Under the name of Donald Howard Heathfield (English Donald Howard Heathfield), together with his wife Elena Vavilova (pseudonym English Tracey Lee Ann Foley) more than 20 years lived outside Russia, engaged in illegal intelligence activities. According to legend, Heathfield was the son of a Canadian diplomat, who actually died in 1962 at the age of 7 weeks, and graduated from high school in the Czech Republic. One Harvard friend noted that Heathfield kept abreast of the affairs of his classmates, including Mexican President Felipe Calderon. Vavilova, according to her legend, was born in Montreal in 1962.
In 1992-1995, Andrei Olegovich studied at Canadian University of York, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in international economics. From 1995 to 1997 he studied at the Paris business school cole des Ponts Business School, receiving a master's degree in international business (English Master in International Business). Since 1999, he lived in the United States. In 2000, he graduated from the John F. Kennedy School of Management at Harvard University with a master's degree in public and public administration.
Entrepreneur and businessman
Andrey Bezrukov has a very extensive experience in international business. From May 2000 to May 2006 he was a partner in the consulting company Global Partners Inc., whose clients included, in particular, such well-known companies as Alstom, Boston Scientific, General Electric and T-Mobile. From May 2006 to December 2010, he headed another consulting company, Future Map, specializing in government and corporate strategic forecasting and planning systems, which had branches in Paris and Singapore. Bezrukov was a member of the World Future Society, an organization once described by the Boston Herald as a factory of thought for new technologies, at a conference of which leading experts in the field of public administration came together. Thanks to this, Heathfield was able to make many acquaintances, in particular, he was acquainted with the former National Security Advisor to Vice President Albert Gore Leon Fuert and Professor of Management from George Washington University William Halal, who participated in the 2008 World Future Society conference. Halal described his relationship with Heathfield as warm. "I came across him at meetings at federal agencies, thought factories, and the World Future Society. I don't know anything that could be of interest from a security perspective. All that I provided to Don was published and made available online."
In June 2010, he was arrested in the United States as a result of treason. On July 9, 2010, in Vienna, he was exchanged with four other Russian citizens together with 9 other Russian illegal intelligence agents.
Creation
Returning to Russia, Bezrukov was appointed adviser to the president of Rosneft. He is also an assistant professor at the Department of Applied Analysis of International Problems at MGIMO. In 2015, he published the book "Russia and the World in 2020. The Contours of a Troubled Future." After his return, he gave his first interview to the Russian Reporter magazine in 2012. In 2015, he was a guest of the program "News on Saturday with Sergey Brilev" on the Russia-1 TV channel. On November 5, 2016, while abroad, he gave an interview on skype to Russia-1 TV channel on the eve of the presidential election in the United States, while TV presenter Sergei Brilev noted that at the request of the interlocutor he could not publicly name the state from which Colonel Bezrukov came in contact.
The already famous Bezrukov is a frequent guest of the program “Formula of Sense with Dmitry Kulikov and Olga Podolyan” on the Vesti FM radio station and the 60 Minutes talk show on Russia-1 TV channel. He is also a member of the Russian Cigar Union and takes an active part in its events. In 2015, he took part in the anniversary Governor's readings of the Tyumen Regional Duma, where Bezrukov made an equally intriguing report, “Russia and the World: the Contours of a Troubled Future.”
Awards
He was awarded the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" IV degree, other orders and medals.
