Documentary

Jeanmaire

A Swiss General in the KGB's Claws

At the height of the Cold War, Brigadier Jean-Louis Jeanmaire a respected general officer in the Swiss Armed Forces was accused of passing highly sensitive information to the Soviet Union. His primary contact was Vassili Denissenko, a Russian military attaché and suspected KGB agent. We look back at a case that shook Switzerland in the 1970s.