Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Intelligence
failed to defeat populist revolutionary movements such as Narod- naya volya(People’s Will), which assassinated a number of senio ...
A critical strength of Soviet tradecraft was mastery of “the street.” Soviet case officers were drilled in the arts of surveilla ...
Ames had crossed the Rubicon, and it was time for him to provide the KGB with all the information he had. The result was the “Bi ...
Orchestra. Using as a cover the director of a raincoat company, Trepper oversaw the work of dedicated communists and anti-Fascis ...
as a link between Comintern apparatus and the security and intelli- gence services. In 1937 he was directed to weed traitors and ...
supporters were shot in jails and camps where they had been confined for years, and the NKVDbegan a complex plot to kill Trotsky ...
the early 1920s of a fictitious opposition group within the Soviet Union. The Cheka-created Monarchist Organization of Central R ...
in the Ukrainian Communist Party. During World War II, Tsinev transferred from party work to Smersh. After the war, he served in ...
TUKHACHEVSKIY, MIKHAIL NIKOLAYEVICH (1893–1937). Tukhachevskiy was the wunderkindof the Red Army. A tsarist guards officer, he w ...
Soviet soldiers died or went into prison camps. Some of the Red Army commanders responsible for defeats on the Eastern Front wer ...
ground Social Democratic Party of Poland and Lithuania in 1900, but gravitated to the Bolsheviks. Between 1902 and 1916, he was ...
1930s impacted on the NKVD. Even successful provincial NKVD chiefs were sacrificed at the whim of Stalin’s policy. Information f ...
V – VADIS, ALEKSANDR ANATOLEVICH (1906–1968). Vadis was or- phaned during the Russian civil war, entered the security service ...
intelligence directorate in the late 1930s and served as an illegalin Western Europe. With the beginning of World War II, he com ...
named “Homer” in the British embassy was meeting his Soviet case officers frequently in New York. When one message noted that Ho ...
the scope of KGB scientific and technical intelligence activities. An official U.S. government report noted that Vetrov had aler ...
weaken the United States’ position in NATO and to strengthen the Soviet Union’s position in international fora. VLASIK, NIKOLAI ...
many of the descendants of Vlodomirskiy’s victims, who saw the de- cision as an effort to efface the terror of the Stalin years. ...
with Joseph Stalinin 1907–1908. He apparently befriended Stalin, feeding him from food packages he received from his wealthy par ...
Washington in 1967 and volunteered to work for the KGB. “I’m a naval officer,” he reportedly said. “I’d like to make some money ...
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