Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Intelligence
was posthumously expelled from the Communist Partyas an enemy of the people. Slutskiy’s death set off an even more vicious purge ...
citizens who had been deported to work in Nazi Germany. According to former Soviet archives, over 25 percent of those interviewe ...
the gulagempire that played a historic role in Joseph Stalin’s era of terror. See alsoBELOMOR CANAL; FRENKEL, NAFTALII. SOLZHENI ...
and the Calf, he was the calf butting his head against the mighty oak. He acted not to dislodge the oak, but because he had to a ...
to corroborate much of the reporting from the German embassy. His code name in GRU cables was “Ramzei” (Ramsey). In early 1941 h ...
SPANISH CIVIL WAR. The Soviet intelligence security services played a critical role in Joseph Stalin’s strategy in the Spanish C ...
against Nazi Germany. Spain also was a venue for the services to re- cruit idealistic anti-Fascists for operations in Europe and ...
Spetznazunits became integrated into Soviet war planning. Begin- ning with the Battle of Moscow, Spetznazformations disrupted th ...
SPY SWAPS. In 1962 the United States and the Soviet Union inaugu- rated a policy of trading captured agents. The first trade inv ...
During his three decades in power, Stalin micromanaged the secu- rity services, paying particular attention to personnel appoint ...
ership and acted as a back channelfor communications with selected officials in the party and the police. In his last 10 years, ...
agent. No generalissimo has had the intelligence assets that Stalin did during the war. Stalin used his service as the long and ...
Furthermore, the statue of Feliks Dzerzhinskytorn down in August 1991 has been placed back in a position of honor at the Lubyank ...
provincial East German cities. Russian President Vladimir Putin served for five years as a KGB liaison officer in Dresden, where ...
change political prisoners and suspected dissidentsfor agents cap- tured in the West. STOLYPIN, PETER ARKADIEVICH (1862–1911).St ...
and worked as an unabashed apologist for Joseph Stalinfor the next 28 years. In 1935 she was appointed by Stalin as the editor o ...
rested in August 1953 and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment. His sentence was reversed following the collapse of the Soviet Uni ...
Akhmatova, he reportedly said: “Our little nun is now receiving for- eign spies.” Akhmatova had met with the British philosopher ...
the American ambassador in 1945. The seal, which was placed on the wall behind the ambassador’s desk, contained a bugging device ...
nuclear proliferation, and international crime. This list is, of course, hardly complete. The SVR is active in a number of count ...
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