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Pavel Mikhailovich Fitin (Russian: Павел Михайлович Фитин; 28 December 1907 – 24 December 1971) was a Soviet intelligence officer (INO–GUGB–NKVD–NKGB) who was the director of Soviet intelligence during World War II, identified in the Venona cables under the code name "Viktor."
Mar 10, 2020 · The Soviet official entrusted with the overall handling of those messages from 1943 to 1946 was Lt. Gen. Pavel Fitin, the head of the First Chief Directorate (the foreign intelligence branch of the KGB, or State Security Committee), in Moscow.
- Peter Kross
Lieutenant General Pavel Mikhailovich Fitin (ru: Павел Михайлович Фитин) (1907 Ozhogino, Tobolsk guberniya, Russian Empire - 24 December 1971, Moscow, Soviet Union) was a Soviet intelligence officer and was the director of Soviet intelligence during World War II, identified in the Venona cables...
Jul 31, 2015 · Lt. Gen. Pavel Fitin, head of Soviet intelligence (NKGB/NKVD) during WWII. A few days passed. At dawn I walked out of the People’s Commissariat for State Security [NKGB]; a tense week was behind me.
Pavel Fitin was born in Ozhogino, Russia, in 1907. He studied agricultural engineering at the Timiryazev Agricultural Academy. He served in the Red Army before working for State Publishing House. Fitin specialized in producing propaganda literature on the changes taking place in agriculture.
Nachalnik razvedki: With Ivan Dobronravov, Sergey Marin, Julian Mau, Vera Strokova. The story of the formation of Soviet intelligence, told through the prism of the fate of its youngest chief - 31-year-old Pavel Mikhailovich Fitin.
For the next seven years, from 1939 to 1946, the chief of the foreign intelligence department (then 5th Department of the GUGB/NKVD) was a very young NKVD officer and graduate of the first official intelligence school (SHON), Major of State Security Pavel Fitin.
