Authors: David E. Murphy
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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