A former KGB agent who spent six years living in a Vancouver church to avoid deportation has voluntarily left Canada.
Mikhail Lennikov’s lawyer said on the weekend that Lennikov ended negotiations with the Canada Border Services Agency and is no longer in the country.
Canadian authorities declared Lennikov a threat to national security because of his work in the 1980s as a translator for the Soviet security and spy agency.
In 1999, he confessed to his role in the KGB but said he did his work under pressure from his superiors.
He was ordered deported in 2009 and took refuge in Vancouver’s First Lutheran Church
His wife wife and son have since become Canadian citizens.
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