and worked as an unabashed apologist for Joseph Stalinfor the
next 28 years. In 1935 she was appointed by Stalin as the editor of
the English-language Moscow News. Strong was in it for more than
the ideology; she was richly paid for her articles on Soviet politics
and culture. She was also an agent of the NKVDwith the code name
“Lira,” presumably for her support of Moscow’s active measures.
In February 1949 Strong was arrested in Moscow by the MGBas
an American spy. After several days in the Lubyanka, she was
deported to the United States. She apparently had been arrested be-
cause of her travels in Yugoslavia and China. Moscow may have be-
lieved that she was forging contacts between Titoists and Maoists.
In the mid-1950s, Strong was forgiven and traveled to Moscow.
Finding the Soviet Union too tame, she settled in China, where she
wrote glowing reports of the great proletarian Cultural Revolution
before she died at age 85.SUDOPLATOV, PAVEL ANATOLEVICH (1907–1996).Orphaned
by Russia’s civil war, Sudoplatov joined the Red Army at 12 and the
Chekain his teens. In the early 1920s he worked as an illegalin op-
erations against Russian and Ukrainian émigréorganizations. In the
1930s, Sudoplatov personally assassinated a Ukrainian émigré leader
with a booby-trapped box of chocolates. In 1938 he was made Yakov
Serebryanskiy’s successor as chief of the Administration for Spe-
cial Tasksand was given personal responsibility by Joseph Stalinto
organize the assassination of Leon Trotsky. With the purge of the
leadership of the foreign intelligence component, Sudoplatov also
served as the head of foreign intelligence for several weeks in 1938.
During World War II, Sudoplatov was chief of the NKVD’s
Fourth Directorate responsible for partisan and terrorist operations
behind German lines. He was also made head of Department S,
which coordinated all Soviet espionage against the Anglo-American
nuclear weapons program, codenamed Enormoz. For his work, Su-
doplatov was repeatedly decorated by Stalin and made a lieutenant
general in 1945. Following the war, he initially was given responsi-
bility for purging collaborators from the Soviet territory that had been
occupied by the Germans. He then returned to foreign intelligence,
concentrating on operations against NATO military forces. Along
with many of Lavrenty Beria’s subordinates, Sudoplatov was ar-258 •SUDOPLATOV, PAVEL ANATOLEVICH (1907–1996)06-313 P-Z.qxd 7/27/06 7:57 AM Page 258