Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Intelligence
Petersburg and took part in the Revolution of November 1917. He joined the Cheka in early 1918. Latsis then became one of Feliks ...
The KGB’s guards were also a danger to the leadership. In 1964 the Guards Directorate failed to protect Nikita Khrushchevfrom th ...
classes, the counterrevolutionary peasantry, and the churches. Lenin saw the need from almost the very beginning for prophylacti ...
Beriaespecially feared two younger competitors. State economic chief Nikolai Voznesenskiy and Stalin’s personal favorite and for ...
tificate was then used to obtain further documents, such as a passport. The illegal would be given the dead double’s documents, ...
In the summer, however, a series of events endangered the regime. An attempt on the life of Lenin by Fanny Kaplan followed by vi ...
out there and at Lefortovo prison, as well as at Butovo, on the out- skirts of the city, where there were mass graves. Following ...
LYALIN, OLEG ADOLPHOVICH (?–1995).The defection of Lyalin in London in 1971 seriously compromised KGBcovert operations in Europe ...
apply for the British diplomatic service. Maclean had little trouble fooling his superiors, and he became a “high flyer” in the ...
MAIN ADVERSARY. The Soviet security services considered the British their main adversary (glavniy protivnik) until 1945. At the ...
fused to return: “Don’t you see that I must go back? Shall I hide now? If I do, they will tell you the priest was a spy.” Mally ...
absolute radio silence. At the same time that preparations were be- ing made for the Stalingrad offensive, rumors of a massive c ...
mission, to develop measures to deceive Western satellites. The GTK became the official organ of maskirovkafor the Soviet milita ...
MEDVED, FILLIP DEMYANOVICH (1889–1937).Medved was a protégé of Feliks Dzerzhinsky, who sponsored him as a member of the Bolshevi ...
etry and flirted with Satanism. He returned to Russia following the February Revolution. Menzhinsky joined the Chekain 1919 and ...
MERKULOV, VSEVOLD NIKOLAEVICH (1895–1953).Merkulov, whose father was an army officer, received a strong scientific educa- tion a ...
World War II. According to a declassified CIA study, Meshik was responsible for drafting German nuclear scientists for Moscow’s ...
Soviet regime to raise funds and popular support in the United States during World War II. Following the war, Mikhoels and his c ...
MILSHTEIN, SOLOMON RAFAILOVICH (1899–1955). An im- portant member of Lavrenty Beria’s political machine, Milshtein served in the ...
with information. Moreover, ambassadors and senior KGB officers competed for the same sources. Another problem was the KGB rezi- ...
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