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Fig. 6.5.Kapiton Kvaratskhelia (seated on the right) and his daughter Susanna (standing).
the time: 275 (or 68 percent) of the 450 Soviet foreign intelligence o cials in Moscow
and abroad were repressed.¹⁴²Among those who escaped repression were some rela-
tives of Beria (see p. 122). Beria’s maternal uncle, Kapiton Kvaratskhelia, ran a station
bar (restaurant) in Harbin, which he had done with the approval of the Soviet gov-
ernment. The Manchukuo/Japanese police repeatedly summoned him to report on
who visited his restaurant. In 1937 he returned to Georgia from Harbin with Beria’s
help. His daughter Susanna, who had joined him in Harbin, and her husband, Petr
Kozliakovskii, returned to Georgia earlier, probably in 1934. Subsequently Susanna
was accused of having had contact with White Russian émigrés, and her husband of
having been a White Army o cial. Her at in Harbin was said to have been visited
constantly by Japanese intelligence o cials. Yet they (at least Susanna and Kapiton)
142 I.A. Damaskin,Stalin i razvedka(Moscow: Veche, 2004), 205. More generally, for the purpose of
protecting clandestine operations, the Soviet secret police often killed its undercover agents when
their utility expired. See Aleksei Tepliakov, “ ‘Otrabotannyi material’: massovaia likvidatsiia sekretnoi
agentury sovetskikh spetssluzhb v 1920–1930-e gody.”Rossiiskaia istoriia, 2013, no. 4, 101–115.