Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Intelligence
MITROKHIN ARCHIVE. Vasili Mitrokhin was a 30-year veteran of the KGB, spent mostly in the First Chief Directorate’s archives. Be ...
Administration for Special Tasksassassinated a number of enemies abroad. Those killed include Ukrainian and Russian nationalists ...
recruited by the KGB and dispatched to London under the cover of a Canadian businessperson, Gordon Lonsdale. In London, Molody r ...
strain on MGBofficers for purloined documents during negotiations with the British and Americans during and immediately followin ...
trafamily murders: according to a study of the Morozov case, more than 50 “informant-children” were murdered in 1932. MOSCOW TRI ...
shootings took place in the Lubyankaless than 48 hours after the sentences were passed. Foreign diplomats and journalists, as we ...
Moscow was the city on the hill. Beginning in the 1950s, therefore, the Soviets increasingly recruited agents through money. Joh ...
During the last 15 years of the Cold War, a number of GRU and KGB officers changed sides, and the balance swung dramatically in ...
was created with authority over criminal questions and the labor camps in the gulagsystem, as well as traffic and more mundane d ...
village-centered revolution. The peasantry distrusted these young in- tellectuals and either ignored them or turned them over to ...
lectivization: the destruction of the kulaksand the total subjugation of the countryside. OGPU chief Vyacheslav Menzhinskyand hi ...
Kirov, a murder that provided Joseph Stalinwith justification to ramp up state terror. Nikolaev was a minor party official who b ...
NKVD (NARODNIY KOMMISSARIAT VNUTRENNIKH DEL).The People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs, the NKVD, was formed on 10 July 1936 ...
The railroad was not finished, however, and was finally abandoned after Stalin’s death. Following Stalin’s death in March 1953, ...
the Soviet Union. Tragically for Nosenko and the CIA, Golitsyn’s charges were believed by the CIA counterintelligence director J ...
The KGB managed the trials of the main Novocherkassk “conspira- tors,” which sentenced 10 dangerous state criminals to death and ...
The plot was simple: have the KGB chair isolate Khrushchev on his return from vacation; convene a plenum of the Central Commit- ...
the security service in Leningrad during the hardest months of the 900-day German siege. Ogoltsov ensured that order was maintai ...
and Balt Chekists, who were deeply distrusted by Stalin, were heav- ily represented within the leadership of the OGPU. By 1936 S ...
simultaneously planning the assassination of senior tsarist offi- cials. Another agent, Father Georgi Gapon, led a demonstration ...
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