The case of Ogorodnik, also known as the "Gardener Spy" case, was a Soviet espionage scandal that took place in the 1980s.
It involved a Soviet KGB agent named Gennadiy Vasilenko Ogorodnik who was working undercover as a gardener in the United States embassy in Moscow.
Ogorodnik had been recruited by the KGB to provide classified information to the Soviet Union.