What Stalin Knew (64 page)

Alta (Ilse Stöbe), 14–15, 64–65, 76, 157

34; and NKGB responsibility for OUN,

Amis, Martin, 250

34; and security Soviet troops in Baltic

Anfilov, Viktor, 249

states, 38; receives letter from A. M.

Antonescu, Ion, 73–76

Korotkov, deputy NKVD resident Berlin,

Antonescu, Michael, 73

101; threatens Korsikanets, 102; close to

Ariets (Rudolph von Scheliha).
See
Sche-

Sudoplatov, 123; controls Fitin’s access

liha, Rudolph von (Ariets)

to Stalin, 126; receives July
1940
report

Artemev, Pavel A., 236

from border troops that German troops

Arzhenukhin, Fedor K., 199–200, 237, 259

were in Warsaw, 129; approves Amaiak

Austria, 5

Kobulov Berlin assignment, 130, 134,

AVS (Kurt Völkisch), 15, 71–77

250; demands recall of Dekanozov, 149;

recipient of Special Reports, 153; should

Baltic Military District, 163, 214, Bandera,

have been alerted by Moscow counterin-

Stepan, 33–34

telligence operations, 154; receives

302

INDEX

Beria (
continued
)

Bulgaria, 81–83

report on German military, naval activity

Bund, 36

from GTU, 157; orders NKVD not to fire

Bunich Igor, 187, 189, 291n.29

on German overflights, 165–66; reports

Burgess, Guy, 103

German overflights deliberate, 170;

Burnett, Charles Stuart, 22

receives border troops reports on Ger-

Bushveva, T., 38n12

man troop movements, 173–75, 177, 180;

reports apprehension of Abwehr agents

Cadogan, Alexander, 149

only to Stalin, 179; calls temporary halt

Cairncross, John (List), 102–03

to arrests of air force personnel, 202;

Cajander, A. K., 48

receives Breitenbach report of exact tim-

Canaris, Admiral, 85

ing of German attack, 208; advises Stalin

Carpatho-Ukraine, 16–17

of progress in interrogations, 226; and

Chamberlain, Neville, xviii, 1, 5, 15, 147

new investigative unit, 228; participates

Cheka, 91

in torture, 228; orders execution of

Chekist, 4, 21, 33, 108

Kuibyshev prisoners without trial, 236;

Cherny, Ivan I., 60, 67

and execution of additional Spanish Civil

Chernykh, Sergei A., 222

War veterans, 239; and Fitin’s dismissal

China, 2

as chief MGB foreign intelligence, 240;

Chkalov, Valery P., 9

arrest of, 241

Chuikov, Vasily I., 59

Berliner Tageblatt
, 14

Churchill, Winston, xxviii, 1–3, 15, 24, 147–

Berlinks, Oreste (Litseist), 152, 182–83

48, 262

Berzin, Jan K., 9, 12, 13, 85, 112, 199

Comintern, xvi, 24, 27, 51

Bessarabia, 33, 37

Cracow, 35, 129–30, 132

Bezymensky, Lev, 186–87, 189

Cripps, Stafford, 148–49

Blaskowitz, Johannes, 78, 154

Czechoslovakia, 2, 5–6, 33, 246

Blunt, Anthony (Tony), 103

Bochkov (USSR Prosecutor), 222

Daladier, Edouard, 22

Bochkov, Viktor M., 31, 233

Damaskin, Igor A., 294n.5, 299n.1, 299n.17

Bock, Fedor von, 65, 78, 157, 221

Daskalov, Teodosy, 83

Boevoy, 82–83

Defenders of Latvia, 40

Bogdanov, Ivan A., 129

Dekanozov, Vladimir G.: transfer of from

Bohemia, 16

NKVD to Foreign Affairs, 92; meetings

Bolshakov, Ivan A., 204

with von Schlenburg, 113, 186; warnings

Border troops: history of, 124–25; organi-

of German intentions by, 149–53, 248;

zation of, 125; locations of, 126; intel-

discussion with Korotkov, 151; informal

ligence collection by, 127–36; and Luft-

negotiations with Otto Meissner, 178–79

waffe overflights, 165–68; and Abwehr

Denmark, 61, 246

fuel samples collection, 129–30; units

Dergachev, Ivan F., 63, 81

strengthened, 210–11

Deutschland
, German pocket battleship, 10

Boris, Tsar of Bulgaria, 82

Diane, 70

Borodino, 233, 235

Dimitrov, Georgy, 218

Brand, 204

Dora (Alexandr Rado), 69–70

Brandenburg-
800,
35, 37

Doumenc, Joseph Edouard, 22

Brauchitsch, Walther von, 82, 129

Drax, Reginald, 20, 22

Braun, Werner von, 208

Drogobych, 30

Breitenbach (Wilhelm Lehmann): recon-

Dronov, N. S., 144, 159

tacted, 208; new handler for, 208; Beria

Dubinin, Nikolai I., 143, 254

outlines security rules for handling, 208;

Dupree, Tom, 104

on June
19, 1941,
reports exact date,

time of German invasion, 208, 294–

East Prussia, 16

95n17; reports on German defense

Eden, Anthony, 148–49

industry, 294n16.
See also
Lehmann,

England: and Sudeten crisis, xvii; conser-

Wilhelm (Breitenbach)

vative governments of, xix; and Italian

Briansk, 233

invasion of Ethiopia, 3; nonintervention

Brive Zeme
, 182

policy on Spain of, 5; reaction to Polish

Budenny, Semyon M., 194

defeat by, 17–19; air fleet of, 22; failed

Budkevich, Sergei L., 84

military talks of, 23; and Stalin’s predic-

Bukovina, 33

tions of defeat, 25, 27, 155; German

Bulatov, Dmitry A., 237, 260

intentions to invade, 156–58, 173–75,

Bulganin, Nikolay A., 242

182; and TASS communiqué, 187; and

INDEX

303

German deception, 188.
See also
Great

Germany: as World War I loser, 1; Nazi rise

Britain

to power in, 2; destruction of Communist

ENIGMA, 67, 148, 255

and Socialist parties in, 2; and Austrian

Erdberg, Alexander.
See
Korotkov, A. M.

anschluss, 5; future plans of aggression

Ernst, 113

by, 15–18; Stalin’s views on future of, 24–

Estonia, 38

26, 27; victory in West by, 61, 62–63

Ethiopia, 3

Gerstenberg, 72, 75

Gestapo, 15, 208–09

Fediuninsky, Ivan I., 262,

Gilbert, Jean, 69

Fedotov, Petr V., 108–09, 284n.2

GKO, 236

Filin, Aleksandr I., 198

Gladiator, 113

Filipov, I. F., 152, 182

Gnedin, Yevgeny A., 228, 297n.31

Finland: and Treaty of Tartu, 47; secret

Goebbels, Joseph, role of in deception,

negotiations with, 48–49; diplomatic

174–75

exchanges with, 50; intelligence on, 56,

Goglidze, Sergei A., 134

66, 103–05; Luftwaffe overflights of, 171;

Golikov, Filipp I., xvi; commands 6th Army,

declares war on USSR, 225

30; replaced Proskurov as chief RU, 143;

Finnish Democratic Republic, 51, 53–54,

does not appreciate Ariets’s reporting on

60.
See also
Finland

Barbarossa, 64–65; suppresses RU

Fitin, Pavel M.: and Stalin’s reaction to

Berlin view of German intentions, 65–66;

Starshina report, xv, 101; early years of,

uninformed on level and access of RU

92; rise in NKVD of, 92–93; lack of access

Sofia’s best sources, 83; early years of,

to Stalin by, 94; relationship with RU,

141–42; as member of Military Council,

others, of, 94–95; and first NKVD analyt-

Belorussian Military District, 142–43;

ical unit, 95–96; and assignment of A. Z.

and RU Information Department prob-

Kobulov as Berlin resident, 98; and Mon-

lems, 143–44; physical description of,

akh report, 105; border troops reporting

144; errs in reporting German attack on

to, 123; and Proskurov dismissal, 188;

Gibraltar via Spain, 159; and ULTRA,

visit to Stalin with Merkulov by, 206–07;

160; on May
31, 1941,
still predicts Ger-

actions on June
22, 1941,
209; fired as

many’s ‘‘main operation’’ was against

chief MGB foreign intelligence, 240; dis-

United Kingdom, 161; mission of to

missed from MGB, 241

London-Washington, 241; combat

Fortified areas: description of, 56–57; Sta-

assignments of, 241–42; role of in forced

lin Line, 56, 58; poor condition of, 58–59

repatriation of POWs and displaced per-

France: and Sudeten crisis, xvii;
1939
war

sons, 242, 298n.24; role of in attack on

declaration by, xvii; failure to aid Poland

Zhukov, 242–43; dies,
1980,
243; Anfilov

of, 6, 17; defeat predicted for, 18–19, 24;

on fear of Stalin of, 249

Anglo-French-Soviet military talks, 22–23;

Goloshchekin, Filipp I., 238, 260

possible Sovietization of, 25; rejection

Golovko, Arsenyi G., 204

of peace proposals by, 26; crumbling

Gorchakov, Ovidy, 112, 284–85n.14

defenses of, 63; German armistice with, 63

Gordon, Boris M., 97

Franco, Francisco, 3, 5, 9, 70, 159

Göring, Hermann: and Antonescu, 73–74;

Frank, Hans, 128

as driving force in war preparations, 99;

Frankfurter Zeitung,
85

on Luftwaffe overflights, 99; moves to

Romanian command post, 101; and

Gaev, Pavel V., 74

peace with England, 156

Gafencu, Grigore, 18

Gorsky, Anatoly, 104

Galicia, 17, 33

Great Britain: as victor in World War I, 2;

Gendin, Semen G., 13

naval agreement with Germany by, 2–3;

German deception: explains early Soviet

failure to aid Poland of, 6; and German

defeats, xvii; RU London residency

invasion plans, 116; early warnings in,

ULTRA reports dispute, 68; rejection of

147; assistance to USSR by, 149.
See
also

theme of invasion of United Kingdom,

England

72–73; and ultimatum theme, 99–100;

Grek, 98

RU special reports support U.K. invasion

Grendal, Vladimir D., 190

theme, 155–56, 158–59, 161; and pro-

Gromada, 36

gram review, 173–79; and preemptive

Guderian, 232

strike concept, 180–81; Litseist role in,

Gudimovich, Petr I., 106–07

182–83; impact of Hitler-Stalin corre-

Guneev, S. I., 153

spondence on, 185–90

Gusev, Konstantin M., 201, 239

German Repatriation Commission, 40

Gushchenko, Ivan V., 84

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Harnack, Arvid (Korsikanets).
See
Kor-

from Moscow offensive to Ukraine, 232–

sikanets (Arvid Harnack)

33; orders Operation Typhoon against

Harrison, L. M., 102

Moscow, 233

Harry, 68, 262

Hoffmann, Hamilcar, 73

Hegendorf, Lieutenant Colonel, 62–63

Holland, 61

Herrnstadt, Rudolph, 14–15

Holloway, David, 240

Hess, Rudolph, 104, 283n.15

Holsti, Rudolf, 48–49

Heydrich, Reinhard, 208

Hotsumi, Ozaki (Invest, Otto), 87

Heywood, T. G. G., 23

Hull, Cordell, 114

Hilger, Gustav, 113

Himmler, Heinrich, 73

Invest (Ozaki Hotsumi), 87

Hiss, Donald R., 102

Italianets, 98

Hitler, Adolf: expected by Stalin to connive

Italy, 3, 5, 9, 151

with England and France to attack the

USSR, xviii; seen by Churchill as major

Jack, 114

threat, xviii; ascension of causes expan-

Japan: aggression in North China by, 2; as

sion of NKVD abroad, 91; eliminated

potential Soviet adversary, 43; RU resi-

Versailles Treaty restraints on Germany,

dency in, 84, 290

2; abrogated Anglo-German naval treaty,

Jewish Bund, 36

3; announced Austrian
anschluss,
5; and

Jödl, Alfred, 76

Munich agreement, which created ‘‘Pro-

tectorate of Bohemia and Moravia’’ and

Kaganovich, Lazar, 243

‘‘independent Slovakia,’’ 5–6; designs on

Kaiukov, Matvei M., 259

Poland of, 6; trusted by Stalin, 7; anger of

Kalendar
, 207

at bombing of pocket battleship
Deutsch-

Kalinin, 235

land,
10; sees Litvinov dismissal as signal

Karbyshev, Dmitry M., 139

from Stalin, 15; views of on Poland, the

Karmen, 113–14

West, and USSR, 19–23; plans of for

Kedrov, Mikhail Sergeevich, 238

Lithuania rejected by Stalin, 38; agrees

Kegel, Gerhard, 15, 62, 64, 263

to secret protocol, Ribbentrop Moscow

Khlopov, Vasily E., 64

visit, 23; attempts to outfox Stalin on

Khomenko Vasily A., 133, 135, 166

Ukrainian oil fields, 30; and support for

Khrushchev, Nikita S.: as Ukrainian Com-

Ukrainian nationalists (OUN), 33; loses

munist Party First Secretary,
1941,
31,

Baltic states to Stalin, 38; and German

220; and Ukrainian nationalists, 34; and

victory in France, 61; and Stalin’s failure

fortified areas, 45; requests Moscow

to foresee Germany’s
1940
victories in

assistance, 220; statement by at 20th

Western Europe, 61; orders preparations

Party Congress, 227; as member Military

for invasion USSR in July
1940,
63; sup-

Council, Stalingrad Front, 242

ports Antonescu, not Iron Guard, in

KhVS.
See
Kegel, Gerhard