Книга: Anatoli Sudoplatov, Pavel Sudoplatov, Leona P. Schecter, Jerrold L. Schecter «Special Tasks»
According to KGB archives, Pavel Sudoplatov directed the secretive Administration for Special Tasks. This department was responsible for kidnapping, assassination, sabotage, and guerrilla warfare during World War II, it also set up illegal networks in the United States and Western Europe, and, most crucially, carried out atomic espionage in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. Sudoplatov served the KGB for over fifty years, at one point controlling more than twenty thousand guerrillas, moles, and spies. But his involvement with the most nefarious Soviet activities - and the rulers who ordered them - made Sudoplatov an unwanted witness, and he was arrested in 1953 after Beria's fall. Despite torture and solitary confinement he refused to "confess", disavowing any criminal actions. He spent fifteen years in prison, then struggled two decades more for rehabilitation. "Special Tasks" is an astonishing memoir and a singular... Издательство: "Back Bay Books" (1995) Формат: 155x230, 576 стр.
ISBN: 0-316-82115-2 |
Pavel Sudoplatov
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1907 – 1996 Pavel Sudoplatov (Пáвел Aнатóльевич Cудоплáтов) (
Early life and career
He was born in
In 1928 he married Emma Kaganova, from Gomel, Belarus who had been recruited by and worked for the OGPU.
He transferred to the Soviet OGPU in 1933, moving to
In the fall of 1938, he was made acting director of the Foreign Department of the
In March, 1939, Stalin rehabilitated Sudoplatov, promoting him to deputy director of the Foreign Department, and placed him in charge of the assassination of Trotsky, which was carried out in August, 1940.
In June, 1941, Sudoplatov was placed in charge of the NKVD's Administration for Special Tasks, the principal task of which was to carry out
In February, 1944, Beria named Sudoplatov to also head the newly-formed Department S, which united both
In the summer of 1946, he was removed from both posts, and in September he was placed in charge of another group at the newly-renamed MGB, one which was supposed to plan sabotage actions in Western countries. In November, 1949, he was given a temporary job helping suppress a guerilla movement in Ukraine that was a relic of WWII.
In the spring of 1953, around the time of Stalin's death, Sudoplatov was appointed to head the yet-again renamed
Arrest, trial and imprisonment
After the fall of Lavrenty Beria, Sudoplatov was arrested on He was sentenced to 15 years in prison. After serving the full term (during which time he was housed with a number of Stalin's top assistants, also imprisoned), he was duly released in August, 1968. Later life He thereafter worked for some time as a translator, working in German and Ukrainian, and wrote a After an extensive campaign, including a publicity effort during the In 1994, his autobiography, " References Further reading * Pavel Sudoplatov, Anatoli Sudoplatov, Jerrold L. Schecter, Leona P. Schecter, "" (Little Brown, Boston, 1994) External links * [http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/world/96/09/27/soviet.html Soviet spymaster Pavel Sudoplatov dies at 89] Источник: Pavel Sudoplatov
* [http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/world/96/09/28/russ-spy.html Spies pay last respects to man who stole A-bomb secrets]
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