gence in the Komitet Informatsii(Committee of Information). From
1949 to 1959 Fedotov held a series of senior positions in the MVD
and KGB. He retired in 1959, after having served on the faculty of
the KGB’s Higher School. Fedotov was one of the very few senior
Chekistsof Yezhov’s generation to survive promotion to the center
in 1937. Of the more than 120 promoted in this period to important
posts in Moscow, barely 20 survived.FEKLISOV, ALEKSANDR SEMENOVICH (1914– ). As a student
in one of the first classes at the NKVD’s foreign intelligence school
(later named the Andropov Institute), Feklisov was prepared to
serve as a case officer under legal cover. From 1941 until 1946 he
served in New York, where he was Julius Rosenberg’s case officer,
and he produced some of the most important scientific and technical
intelligence to reach Moscow during the Great Patriotic War.
Through Feklisov, Rosenberg managed several engineers with access
to top secret military and scientific information. Feklisov had great
admiration for the Rosenbergs and other American volunteers who
worked for Moscow out of ideological affinity. He believed that
Moscow should have made more of an effort to save the Rosenbergs
from execution.
Following service in New York, Feklisov served in London, main-
taining contact with Klaus Fuchs, his service’s most important
source of nuclear intelligence. As the Soviet services lost contact
with many of their most productive agents in the British and Ameri-
can nuclear programs, Fuchs’s information became increasingly crit-
ical. Feklisov was a careful street case officer. He first met Fuchs in
a British pub. Longer meetings took place in pubs and on the streets
of the British capital, where the case officer and Fuchs could walk
and talk with little fear of being overheard. Feklisov was later in-
formed by Moscow that Fuchs’s information saved the Soviet Union
200 million rubles. Feklisov served a tour in Prague as an advisor to
the Czechoslovakian intelligence service, and then was for many
years head of the American department of the First Chief Directorate.
Feklisov’s next incarnation as an intelligence officer came in the
early 1960s when he served as KGBrezidentin Washington under
the name “Fomin.” Feklisov’s rezidenturawas very successful in
collecting scientific and intelligence information. He was unable,FEKLISOV, ALEKSANDR SEMENOVICH (1914– ) •8306-313 A-G.qxd 7/27/06 7:55 AM Page 83