What Stalin Knew (56 page)

GLOSSARY OF SPIES AND THEIR MASTERS

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Baron:
Code name of RU agent Frantisek Moravec, former head of Czech mili-

tary intelligence

BAZHANOV, Ivan G:
Officer of the RU Berlin residency

Belvedere:
Agent of the Sofia residency

BENENSON, M. L.:
Captain, deputy Chief of the First (Railroad) Department,

GTU

Berlinks, Oreste:
Gestapo double agent, code name Peter. NKGB code name

Litseist

BERZIN, Jan Karlovich:
RU officer who recruited Richard SORGE

BILTON:
Code name of Ivan M. KOZLOV, RU London residency

BLOK:
Code name of Viktor Z. LEBEDEV, RU Belgrade residency

Blunt, Anthony:
NKGB agent in British counterintelligence organization MI-5.

Code name Tony

BOCHKOV, Viktor M.:
Chief of NKVD Special Departments

Boevoy:
Agent of the Sofia RU residency

BOGDANOV, Ivan A.:
Lieutenant general, commander of border troops of

Belorussian NKVD

BOLSHAKOV, Ivan A.:
Colonel, head of the German desk in military

intelligence

Brand:
RU Helsinki agent. Real name not identified

Breitenbach:
Code name of Willy Lehmann. Berlin policeman, later Gestapo,

recruited by NKVD

BRION:
Code name of Colonel Ivan A. SKLIAROV, RU London residency

BUDKEVICH, Sergei, L.:
Subordinate of RU resident in Tokyo. Link to SORGE

and his network

Burgess, Guy:
One of the Cambridge Five. Code name Mädchen

Bykov:
Agent run by the Terespol railroad (GTU)

Cairncross, John:
NKGB agent. Became the personal secretary to Sir Maurice

Hankey, through whose office flowed British government policy and intel-

ligence documents. Code name List

CHERNY, Ivan I.:
Major general London RU resident and military attaché up to

August 1940

DEKANOZOV, Vladimir G.:
Soviet ambassador in Berlin. Aware of RU and

NKGB agent reporting

DERGACHEV, Ivan F.:
Colonel, RU resident and military attaché in Sofia

DORA:
Code name of Alexandr RADO, RU Switzerland

Diane:
Subsource of DORA in RU Switzerland

DRONOV, N.S.:
Major general named chief of the RU Information Department

in April 1941

DUBININ, Nikolai I.:
Replaced Grigory PUGACHEV as head of the RU Infor-

mation Department in December 1940

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ERDBERG, Alexander:
Alias used by Aleksandr M. KOROTKOV, deputy chief,

NKVD/NKGB residency, Berlin

Ernst:
Informant in the German embassy, Moscow, possibly a Soviet employee

FEDOTOV, Petr V.:
Head of NKVD/NKGB counterintelligence in 1940–41

FILIPPOV, I. F.:
NKGB officer and case officer for Litseist, under TASS cover.

Code name FILOSOF

FILOSOF:
Code name of I. F. FILIPPOV, member of NKVD residency in Berlin

FITIN, Pavel Mikhailovich:
Chief of the First (Foreign Intelligence) Directo-

rate, NKGB

GAEV, Pavel V.:
Chief of the Intelligence Department, Odessa Military District

GENDIN, Semen G.:
Acting chief, RU

GILBERT, Jean:
Alias used by Leopold TREPPER, illegal RU resident in Paris

Gladiator:
Agent covering the Italian embassy in Moscow

GOGLIDZE, Sergei A.:
Longtime Beria colleague and special representative of

the CC VKP(b) and SNK in the Moldavian SSR

GOLIKOV, Filipp I.:
General who replaced PROSKUROV as chief of the RU.

Later became marshal of the Soviet Union

GORDON, Boris M.:
Berlin NKVD resident executed in 1937

GORSKY, Anatoly:
RU resident in London. Code name VADIM

Grek:
Member of the Technical Department of the Wehrmacht. Subsource,

NKVD/NKGB Berlin residency

GUDIMOVICH, Petr I.:
Head of the new legal residency in Warsaw in 1940.

Code name IVAN

GUNEEV, S. I.:
Lieutenant colonel, Operational Directorate of the general staff,

designated contact with the RU in Moscow

GUSHCHENKO, Ivan V.:
Military attaché and resident, RU Tokyo

Harnack, Arvid:
German official of the Economics Ministry in Berlin.

Recruited by Boris Gordon. Code name Korsikanets

HARRY:
Code name of Henri ROBINSON, RU illegal resident in Paris

Hegendorf:
Assistant German military attaché in Moscow

Herrnstadt, Rudolf:
Correspondent of the
Berliner Tageblatt
in Moscow, where

he was recruited by the RU. Moved to Warsaw at the RU’s request

HEWELL, Walther:
Ribbentrop’s liaison officer with the Führer’s office

Hirschfeld:
Birth name of Ivar Lissner, double agent under control of the

Gestapo

Hotsumi, Ozaki:
Leading Japanese member of the SORGE RU agent network.

Code names Invest, Otto

Invest:
Code name of Ozaki Hotsumi, leading Japanese member of the Sorge

network

Italianets:
German naval intelligence officer, Berlin NKVD/NKGB residency

agent

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IVAN:
Code name of Petr GUDIMOVICH, NKGB legal resident in Warsaw

Jack:
Valet to the American ambassador in Moscow, NKVD/NKGB agent

Karmen:
NKGB agent in the American embassy, Moscow, who was personal

interpreter and assistant to the wife of the ambassador

Kegel, Gerhard:
RU agent in German embassy, Moscow. Code names: KhVS,

Kurt

KHLOPOV, Vasily Ye.:
Assistant to assistant air attaché SKORNIAKOV in

Berlin

KHOMENKO Vasily A.:
Major general, chief of the border troops district,

Ukrainian SSR

KhVS:
Code name of RU agent Gerhard Kegel, German embassy, Moscow

KOBULOV,
Amaiak Z.: As of August 1939, NKVD/GUGB resident in Berlin.

Arrived as first secretary and then counselor of the Soviet mission

KOBULOV, Bogdan Z.:
Deputy commissar, NKGB

KOLONIST:
Code name of Nikolai B. KUZNETSOV, a covert employee of the

NKGB Second Directorate

KONOVALOV, Aleksei A.:
Head of Military-Technical Department, RU

KOPETS, Ivan I.:
Commander of air units of the Eighth Army in the Finnish

war and veteran of the Spanish civil war. Commander of air forces, Western

Front, who committed suicide June 22, 1941

KORF:
Code name of Mikhail S. SHAROV, deputy resident, Bucharest, under

TASS cover

KOROTKOV, Aleksandr M.:
Deputy chief, Berlin NKGB residency. On Septem-

ber 17, 1940, he recontacted Korsikanets, using the alias Alexander

ERDBERG. Was case officer of Starshina

Korsikanets:
Code name of Arvid Harnack, German Economics Ministry in

Berlin

KORTER, George:
Assistant to August Ponschab, German consul in Harbin

Kosta:
Network of agents in the Sofia RU residency

KOZLOV, Ivan M.:
Member of the RU residency and the Soviet military mission

in London in 1940. Code name Bilton

KREMER, Semen D.:
Member of the RU residency and the Soviet military mis-

sion in Great Britain in 1940. Code names ALEKSANDR, SERGEI

KRUGLOV, Sergei N.:
NKVD deputy commissar

KULIK, Grigory I.:
Crony of Stalin, who chose him to chair the conference on

the Finnish war

KURT:
Code name of Gerhard KEGEL

KUZNETSOV, A. M.:
Colonel chief of the RU First (Western) Department

KUZNETSOV, Nikolai G.:
Covert employee of the NKGB Second Directorate.

Code name KOLONIST

LEBEDEV, Viktor Z.:
RU residency officer active in Belgrade diplomatic com-

munity. Cover was counselor of Belgrade embassy. Code name BLOK

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Lehmann, Wilhelm (Willy):
German police official who volunteered his ser-

vices. Later assigned to Gestapo counterintelligence operations against the

Soviet mission. Recruited agent of NKVD/NKGB Berlin residency. Code

name Breitenbach

LIAKHTEROV, Nikolai G.:
RU legal resident, Budapest embassy. Code name

MARS

LIKUS, Rudolf:
SS Oberführer in Ribbentrop’s Special Bureau

Liskow, Alfred H.:
German army defector who crossed over on June 21, 1941,

and told of impending invasion

Lissner, Ivar:
German journalist recruited by the Abwehr, which promised to

allow his Jewish parents to leave Germany

List:
Code name of John Cairncross

Litseist:
NKGB code name of Oreste Berlinks, Latvian double agent in Berlin

under Gestapo control. Gestapo code name Peter

LTsL:
Code name of Margarita Völkisch, RU agent in German embassy,

Bucharest

Luchisty:
Employee of the heavy-machine building firm AEG. Berlin

NKVD/NKGB residency subsource

LYUSHKOV, G. S.:
NKVD general who defected to the Japanese army in

Manchuria

Mädchen:
Code name of Guy Burgess

Margarit:
Agent of the RU Sofia residency

MARIA:
Code name of Yelena MODRZHINSKAIA, NKGB legal residency in

Warsaw

MARS:
Code name of legal resident of Budapest embassy Nikolai G.

LIAKHTEROV

MASLENNIKOV, Ivan I.:
Lieutenant general, deputy NKVD for troops

MASLOV, Mikhail S.:
Colonel, assistant military attaché, Belgrade

MATSKE, Gerhard:
Colonel, German military attaché, Tokyo

MEISSNER, Otto:
Longtime Russian specialist in the German Foreign Ministry

who carried on secret talks with DEKANOZOV

MEKHLIS, Lev Z.:
Chief of the Political Directorate of the Red Army. Active in

the purges

MERETSKOV, Kiril A.:
Deputy chief of the general staff, 1938–40; chief,

August 1940–January 1941. Imprisoned June–August 1941

MERKULOV, Vsevolod N.:
GUGB chief, commissar for State Security

MESHIK, Pavel Ia.:
Head of the Ukrainian SSR NKGB

METEOR:
Code name of Colonel Nikolai D. SKORNIAKOV of Berlin RU

residency

MIKHAILOV, Leonid A.:
Legal RU resident in Prague. Code name RUDOLF

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MILSHTEIN, Solomon R.:
Head of the GTU. Became chief, Third (Secret-

Political) Directorate, NKGB in February 1941

MODRZHINSKAIA, Yelena D.:
NKGB intelligence officer in Warsaw. Wife of

Petr I. Gudimovich. Code name Maria

MOKHOV, Leonid E.:
Alias of Leonid A. MIKHAILOV, RU resident in Prague

Monakh:
Source of Helsinki NKGB residency

Moravec, Frantisek:
Former head of Czech military intelligence whose escape

was arranged by SIS. Recruited by RU. Code name Baron

Negri:
NKGB agent in German embassy in Moscow

Nemesh:
RU agent. Retired Romanian staff officer

NIKOLAI:
Code name of Boris N. ZHURAVLIEV

NOVOBRANETS, Vasily A.:
Replaced DUBININ as acting head of the informa-

tion department, RU

ORLOV, Aleksandr G.:
Acting chief of the RU, May 1938–April 1939

OSETROV, Grigory A.:
Chief of External Relations Department, RU

OSTVALD:
Code name of Ivan V. SMIRNOV, RU legal resident in Helsinki

OTTO:
Code name of the RU illegal resident in Paris, Leopold TREPPER

Otto:
Code name of Ozaki Hotsumi of the SORGE agent network

OVAKIMIAN, Gaik B.:
Head of the NKGB residency in New York, under

AMTORG cover

PANFILOV, Aleksei P.:
Major general, chief of the First Department, RU, 1940–

June 1941

PAVLOVSKY, Boris S.:
deputy chief of the Investigative Unit, Third (Counterin-

telligence) Directorate, NKO

PETROV, Ivan A.:
Deputy chief of border troops of the Ukrainian NKVD

PETROV, Pavel I.:
Alias of Konstantin B. LEONTEV

Philby, Kim:
Recruited agent of NKGB. Did not enter SIS until September 1941.

Before that he was in Special Operations Executive. Code name Söhnchen

Poeta:
Helsinki NKGB residency source

Poisson:
Subsource of DORA, RU illegal resident in Switzerland

POLIAKOVA, Maria I.:
Lieutenant colonel in the RU since 1932

PONSCHAB, August:
German consul in Harbin who passed on to Berlin what

appeared to be German disinformation

PROSKUROV, Ivan Iosifovich:
Aviator and chief of the RU. Served in the Span-

ish civil war. Hero of the Soviet Union. Arrested on July 27, 1941, and shot

without trial on October 28, 1941

PUGACHEV, Grigory P.:
Colonel, acting chief of the Information Department,

RU general staff, Red Army, 1939–December 1940

RADO, Alexandr:
Chief of the RU illegal residency in Switzerland. Code names

ALBERT and DORA

RAMSAY:
Code name of Richard SORGE, RU illegal resident in Tokyo

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RATO:
Code name of Makar M. VOLOSIUK, assistant air attaché in Paris