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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 ...
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. He was the...
Павло́ Анато́лійович Судопла́тов; 29 июня [ 12 июля] 1907 [1], Мелитополь, Таврическая губерния — 24 сентября 1996 [2] [3], Москва) — видный сотрудник советских спецслужб, разведчик, диверсант, сотрудник ОГПУ, а позже НКВД — НКГБ; перед арестом в 1953 году — генерал-лейтенант МВД СССР, этнический украинец [4] .
- 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.
Special Tasks: The Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness—A 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.
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.
Jun 7, 2021 · 14 Pavel Sudoplatov and Anatolii Pavlovich Sudoplatov, with Jerrold L. Schecter and Leona Schecter, Special Tasks: The Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness—A Soviet Spymaster (Boston: Little, Brown, 1994).
