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    Pavel Sudoplatov

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  2. Pavel Anatolyevich Sudoplatov (Russian: Пáвел Aнатóльевич Cудоплáтов; Ukrainian: Павло́ Анато́лійович Судопла́тов, romanized: Pavlo Anatoliiovych Sudoplatov; July 7, 1907 – September 24, 1996) was a senior Soviet official in the intelligence services of the former Soviet Union whose career ...

    • 1919–1953
  3. Sep 28, 1996 · An obituary on Saturday about Pavel A. Sudoplatov, a former Soviet intelligence official, misstated the role of J. Robert Oppenheimer in the Manhattan Project to make an atomic bomb.

    • Chocolate box bomb. Ukrainian by birth, Sudoplatov joined the Red Army at the age of 12, and was a devoted Communist his entire lifetime. Starting in the late 1920s he worked for Soviet security services (Cheka – OGPU – NKVD), quickly making a stellar career.
    • Ice pick in Trotsky’s head. After returning to Moscow, even though a top official in the ranks of the NKVD, Sudoplatov was fearful. Stalin’s Great Purge was at its peak, and Sudoplatov witnessed his colleagues and bosses arrested and executed.
    • Operation Monastery. During World War II, Sudoplatov’s men organized operations against Germany. He oversaw the best spies of that period: the “Red Orchestra” group, Richard Sorge, Kim Philby, Rudolf Abel and so on.
    • Operation Scherhorn. In 1944, Sudoplatov and his men plotted Operation Scherhorn. With the help of fake sources, Soviet intelligence convinced the Germans, who were retreating in Eastern Europe, that there was a Wehrmacht military unit of about 2,000 men left behind the enemy lines in Belarus.
  4. Pavel Anatolyevich Sudoplatov (Павел Анатольевич Судоплатов; 1907-1996) was a Soviet Lieutenant General. Sudoplatov was born in Melitopol (modern Ukraine). At age 12, he served in the Red Army and later joined the K.G.B. He was put in charge of many high-profile assassinations, including Leon Trotsky in Mexico City in ...

  5. Special Tasks: The Memoirs of an Unwanted WitnessA Soviet Spymaster is the autobiography of Pavel Sudoplatov, who was a member of the intelligence services of the Soviet Union who rose to the rank of lieutenant general.

  6. Sep 27, 1996 · Pavel Sudoplatov, 89, the Soviet spymaster who claimed to have engineered the stealing of the atomic bomb secrets from the United States and directed the 1940 assassination of Leon Trotsky,...

  7. Pavel Anatolyevich Sudoplatov was a senior Soviet official in the intelligence services of the former Soviet Union whose career spanned over 34 years in the different intelligence branches of the Soviet Armed Forces.

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