SOVIET INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY MAJ GEN G. K. TSINEV

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1. This report, bused on information available.frm this
source as of 14 March 58, is one of a series on senior military
intelligence and KGB officers in East Germany.
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-2. Fill Name: !~ Georrii Karaavich T"SXN V
Rank:
J%ssi.gment:
Date of Birth: Estimated between 1900 - 1905.
Party Status: There is no information. available
fxnn source on TSIi'J,V's exact party' status,.
but TO-TI V remarked that on 22 Nov 55
he would be busy in F(12SD1:15 with the
elections to the Party Ccxwittee.
See note (1).
Residence in USStt: ? '.Ihe 1954- LOSCOFI telephone directory.
Wife..._ s s Name:
Chief, KGB Third (CI) Directorate
(x.) t?X);
FFN 39 335
(but not the 1951 Edition) lists
G. K. TSIN r, D-7 1674., 109 Leningraasxaya
Shosse. Source confirmed that this
telephone znuaber was still valid for,
1 ]](1''V at. the end of March 1956.
Lidiya Matveevna
Daughter: Dina Georgiavna.
Source gives no evidence'of any other
children.
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1.. discussion on 9 :axg 55 between Capt A. I. PI.NOV., KGB CI:...
Officer at M STOOK, and Maj I. IL. Gt , .IC B Dept,
HQ, 2 GM.t., also brought up TS s mime with possible party
implications. PMOV said that "a certain man", who was
secretary of the Party crganisationn and who held certain
docments, Ras 'on leave. Gl1TGSEI replied that an
authorisation for forwarding "that information" had been,
given. PP:NOV then said that he had written to his chief at
ItO.STOCK, as to how he should deal with the secretary..
.CHID I replied, however, that it was not necessary to write
to the : chief) he should write direct to TSThV'"and have all
your naterial set out, with a copy for us". .
 In. MOVt3 E Ts !ND OTHIIR ACTIVITIDS
4. TSTNB'`V departed an leave on 30 iu8 55, flying to K SCO"! from,
SCHW Airfield shortly before 1700 hrs. He spent, part of his
leave with his wife at the "F!.BRITSIUS" Services' Sanatorium or Rest
Home in SOCK, returning without her on or about the 19 October.
Maj Gen V. Z. CHI I Chief of the Medical Department, GCWG told an
officer in the Main Military-Medical Directorate in MOSCOW, that TSINGV
would receive his passes in MOSCOW for "FABRITSIUS" in SOCHI dated
4. September. On his return TSIHHV said that he was most impressed
by the place, a statement with which his friend, Col V. I. KONOVAIOV
agreed.
5. On 21 Oct 55 TSINEV telephoned Col (later Maj Gen) N. R. MII20N0V,
of KGB? Third Main Directorate, MOSCOW, who was staying vuth ' s wife at
the "Imperial Sanatorium" in KtRIOVY VERY (=I=?D), Czechoslovakia,
MIRONOV wished to make a trip to the MR and visit the border town of
ffi2tJM'B(CIH (a leave centre in Bezirk KL?RL-MM-ST1DT) and KA IX-STiDT.
TSIHSV arranged to send an officer to Ki i IAVY VARY to escort MIROINOV and
agreed to meet him personally at BR ffiiCH on 23 October.
6. Hants of a future official trip by'TSINEV to MOSCOW to attend
a conference were contained in various conversations he had with his
daughter in March 1956, but source was unable to confirm that the projeoted
visit took place. TSLN V mentioned to her on 4. Mar 56 that the opening
of a six-day conference originally scheduled for 10 March had been
postponed to the 20th, and he would arrive on that day. On 17 March
TSINEV told his daughter that it would be hard to say when he and her
mother would be returning to MOS ; it was supposed to have been
before the 20th but that obviously.was not going to happen. On
28 March TSIlV, still not having loft East Germany, said that her
mother was to return to MOSCOW soon and he would probably accompany her.
Although TSIRZV intondad to take his wife with him, there is no
evidence to connect her trip - or TSINIW's, for that matter -- with the
then currant rumours of his possible transfer to MOSCOW (see paras
15-1-7). The fact that his wife intended to return to MOSCX)TiT anyway
is supported by her remark that she would be leaving for MOSCOW in April,
but was not sure exactly when it would be.
7. With one exception, nothing is known about TSIIQEV'a attendance
at public functions other than the. official receptions given in BERLIN,
to celebrate the October Revolution and Red Army Day. Frcm. his own
statement, however, he--diced attend. the opening of the "Soviet-G& :an
Friendship Month" on 29 cot :55. He told his wife. that "our head of the.
'cultural delegation" had, spoken,; as well as' an. academician from IENINGRGD
whom the TSINEVs knew and who particularly remembered here
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8.. His personal qualities placed TSFNI!Vi.n a favourable light,
both as a family man and a casauaridirig officer. He was affectionate
and kind as a husband and father, was evidently popular among his
colleagues, and appeared to have a reputation as a.sympathetic and
approachable chief. TSINEV never raised his voice, and he exhibited
patience, self-control and an occasional sense of humour.
9. V?INEV's efficiency in the handling of KGB affairs is less
easy to assess from source material; although his energy is not in
doubt. That he could be strict when the occasion demanded and that
he made his presence felt throughout the directorate,, as a man wishing
personally to be kept informed, are implied by the frequency with which
his name was mentioned by subordinates in connection with individual
cases.. Examples of his personal, interest in the various facets of
directorate activities are given below.
10. TSINEV'frequently exerted his influence to ibrthor the interests
?of his family, such as in his fairly prodigal use of the KCB duty officer
in MOSU)W for helping with family affairs and providing transport (see
also Para 24.).
11.. TSIM V's apparent willingness to help his subordinates and
friends was reflected in a discussion between TSINEV's deputy, Col E.
P. S.".7AN0V, and the latter's wife Nina on the subject of their son's
failure to pass a college entrance examination. . Nina suggested to
S=ZONOV that someone should be approached about permission for their
son to take the examination again:- "Ask TSINEV for advice",- she said,
"lie may know someone. ? He may lot you fly how yourself to do it."
At a later date, after S:'. ONOV's return to the USSR frcei Germany, TSIN V
telephoned Nina in.Mosoow for further ,information on the new appointment
for, her..husband; it was reve4led that he-(TSINEV) had rung "there"
(presumably the third Main Directoratd) and they had "sounded encouraging!'.
12. Maj P.. DRUZFTIKOV, HQ, KGB Third. Directorate, also mentioned
TSD]EV to his wife Yu]ya in connection with his application for a
compassionate posting to KIEV. He had received full backing from
TSINEV,?who had said : "I entirely agree - you can hand over and leave
tcnorrow as far as I am concerned"; TSINgV had then given orders for
a testimonial and an advance of pay to be issued to DRAZEIIKOV. ?
13. ' During a conversation in Feb 56 with his friend Col V.. I.
KONOV=V, TSII(EV sympathized with him for not having had a iWep y
from MDSOOFf (possibly about a new appointment). He 'added that he
would probably be going to MOSODW.in March and could raise. the question.
ISONOVtMV thought that if TSINlV could put in a word for him there, they
would grant his request.
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 14.. Pfter her' first six weeks, in IOTSD1J, TSINEV's wife complained
to their daughter that TSINEV was never at home, day or night - "He
just dashes in and then dashes right cut again". This tends to
reflect the general impression gained from source material as a whole
that TSIMN has a capacity for bard work. His forcefulness and his
personal participation in individual cases re'?lected by the n maerous
instances in which subordinate officers were called upon to make
personal reports on the progress of their sometimes minor investiga-
tions.
V. On= P. tSONI.L PIJRTICULLRS.
15. Career:
Rumours of. TSI t s possible transfer from FOTS'D M were in
circulation at least as'ear]y as January 1956. iiIi?ONOV's wife in,
MOSCOW mentioned to TSI1 V that she had heard in an indirect way that
TSINL?'V might be ccm1fig to MOSCUU. TSIIE1 replied that nothing was
certain, and there had been many rtmmours; 11MMOV himself had told
his that they were getting things ready there for him (TSIIM).
Discussions hail been going on for so many months that he really did not
attach such significance to theca. .
16. The next intimation was volunteered by TSI!EV himself during a
telephone conversation on 9 Feb 56 with an unidentified friend,
apparently a highs-e waking BflB officer. , TS]] V stated that there had
been ankh talk about the possibility of having to change his type of
work. However, he continued, there was nothingofficia] and he did
not know how the question would be decided. The unidentified officer
said that he bad talked with DROZDOV (u/i) "there". At this point
TSnCV said that, one should not discuss things too much (on the telephbnei
and-quickly changed the subject.
17. TIEIIONOV (fnu; probably KGB, fOSOG told TSI'Vs 's daughter
on 19 February that TSINRV was due in MOSODW "long ago" and he. had
expected to find him there. .A certain Leonid Il'ich (snu) stated, about
the same time, that TSINEV was supposed to have been in MOSODW by then.
In, reply to the last supposition. TSINEV said to his daughter:. "Who
knows? There has been nothing official for me." His daughter countered,
.that Leonid 11'ieh had said he was making every effort to bring this
about.
18. T3LNEV was, traced by source as still being in POTSDtM on
17 4r .56? -
Coamen_t__iCollateral traces on TB]N1 V's career prior to the period
covered by source are as follows :
1949 Assistant Deputy.Camnandant, Allied Control Caamission,
VIENNA, and Chief of the Rcononic Division; said to
have been a baker by trade; see Para.20.
1951k Arrived in'east Germany as Chief of the Directorate
for Special Units, KGB, GSM.
1.9. Education and Aceent:
Source provides no information on TSThEV's educational background
other than that he speaks with the voice of an educated man and has a
/Great?rm ssian .....?.
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 Great-Russian accent. There'are some grounds for believisig that he
ray have a Ukrainian background, either by reason of birth or past
residence. This is based on roforences to "my fellow c6untzy>imen", and
on talk of a reunion in the so conteict (See 1'aras.35 and 42-44).
21. There is no .^.vidcncc ppovided by source to mitigate the -
conclusion that 14 di ya TS71~~VAA s a rather tedious woman concerned mainly
with f omily affairs and aeaturo comforts.
22. TBINEV's daughter Dina, born in 1933, studied legal psychiatry
and passed her a aminations in 1955. In December 1955 she was working
in tie office of the MOSCOW public. Prosecutor where, she informed her.
parents, she had a lot of work. "Interesting things are going on in
court",. she observed, but they could not be discussed on the telephone.
23. Dina flew to Germany on 24._Sen 56 to spend a holiday with her
parents in 1 )TSDI, returning by air on 14 February. .
24. In February 1956 Dina was disappointed to hear that She had not.
boon admitted to the "International Faeulty".where she wanted in take a
course on "The Governmaental. Structure of India". She told her friend- .
Ala I,f.F'iWA, of MOSCOW, that she was going to petition about it. She
M-IN P receive fran one Elena trkkojMvna (anu; y'i) a promise of
help with her cVpoal to the faculty. V
25. Dina is probably an only child and is close to her parents,
She received n uch affection 'ran them and returned this in full. She . .
also laam s heavily on her father~.s-influence for facilities and favours,
as demonstrated by her'use: of KGB transport for getting to and, from MOSCOW
airport, TSIIgV' a iinstzubtions to the KGB duty officer on. arrangements
for her flight to Gorraagy, efforts .on TSINEV' a part to get her- a ti:oket
for a Kremlin ball, and his arrangements for her to get help with her
law diploma thesis.. ? ?
26. Im added spur to ?)inat a wish to attend the. Kremlin New Year's
Ball was probably the fact that her friend Galoc K92MINl: was going -
to sing at the ccncert?there.. Dina spent w Year's Eve 955 at a
party held in Flat 18, House 6,. Neni.rovicha-DancY o Street, v+hich Fes
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Galochka' $ f-l:at before her narri.age, and currently &-oupied by her
grandmother. V .
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VI. i. ili$ REGid DING FAIMY
Y kIatveeyna, flow from MOSCOW on 24. Nov 55
20. TSINEV'a wife, Lj~dL
to Join her husband in 1 68tH. ' G.oeording to her own opinion, TSINEV
should have considered himself lucky since, a few days earlier, she
informed him that she "night cone but to. after the holiday',
but he did not "deserve to be visited by me so often". Possibly an
ailing but certainly a complaining vaanan, she did not alsaeys respond
to TF3IPUV'a kindness and patience towards her. She regarded his
'iimteiition of going to see the KIEV Dynamo football team on its visit to
the MR as camouflage for.sorothing that would make her "Jealous if
she know the truth". Than referring to o incident that had occurred
when they were in VBWL, she made it quite clear that she suspected.
him of clandestine love affairs. ?
 On 31 Dec 55 TSINEV' asked B. S. /I K EIKO for the full- name
and telephone number of ANIPOV, First Secretary, Soviet Embassy, l'111N.
On receiving the information that his first names were Grant MinascVich
rang AIWI'OV and They ocok ;ed Na Year greetings. There are
no further details from s e to explain this motion.
26. G. H. MOEOV
27.? The exact relationships bettiieeen TSINEV and many of his
actz saint u oea cannot b 'assessed with accuracy from source materi.eeli
If the mutual intimacy of speech is used as a criterion then it can
be concluded that KONOVAWV, OSILOV and POIWVSKSI;Yfi. oame closest
in friendship among those known to source. But in general all of
TSINEV's friends also identified themselves as friends of the family,
so that the distinction between those of a purely social nature and
those based more on a professional relationship was not always.
apparent. One or two friendships outside the service were probably
attributable to TSINEV's daughter, and there is some evidence to show
that service friends included a circle with Ukrainian attachments,'
if not of Ukrainian origin. Friends end contacts are given below in
alphabetical order, and included, where available, are the indications
from source material on)he possible basis for the friendship
29. B. S. tj 1fSEIII)
Boris 3er eevich AIM=, head. of the Soviet Export Film
office iri ~, and his wife Natalia Dmitrievna were included among
the family acquaintances. TSINEV was in frequent contact with !,aE .EIKD,
or his wife when.the latter was on leave.
30. One one occasion Natalia told TSINEV that-her husband would be
meeting TSINEP' s "ftimily on Iced Square on 7 November, adding that it
was Boris' a first hone leave for five years.
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31. J.U IZEIllD arrived back from a visit to- BONN on 15 March and
informed TSIN V that he was returning to hONN on 16 or 17 March for
e further three days. This second visit was confirmed by his wife when
talking to TSINSV on 19 or 20 March.
32, LIEI{SSIHD was also host to A. E.:OSIFDV, an intimate friend of
TSINEV, who come to the DU1 in connection with the I2IPZIG.Fair. Source
material suggests that fiSINFV's :friendship with AL-1E EIM was. more,
utilitarian than social, inasmuch as he generally had a request to'imaka
or required information who eontactin(; him..-?'In their conversations
only TSINEV used the. f fosrt of address. "
33. V. I.? KDIdOVATAV
Col V l a d i m i r . I of of a military intelligence
dotacbment in' BMW,. invited TSINZ ?o a party on 6 Nov 55 to celebrate
his "25 years in the army", and on 31 December he contacted TSINE r to
give New Year greetings.- In the latter case KONOVIZOV explained that
he was on leave and TSI u - might not have found. him in had he left it
to TSINEV to greet him first. In both instances the manner of their
conversation left no doubt that they were old and intimate friends,
First naves and patronymics were used but only TSINL'V used the familiar'
form of speech.
/34. S. G. LI,'D'i........
 34. S. G. Lfa
In February 1956 TSINEV successfully enlisted Ser J. ,e rg2L vich
L!-PIN's aid in connection with a diploma thesis for his daughter Dina.
`i ding to TSTh]V, LGPM promised to give as much help as possible.
When discussing the matter with Dina, TSINCV said that LLPIN's wife's
name was Evgeniya and he'thought her patronymic was Konstantinova although
he was not sure. Later, Dina said she had also contacted LtP'IN, on
telephone number D-7 1332, and had been invited to visit him.
Canment: The 1954- MCSCOA telephone directory lists S. G. Lt=,
Tel.No.D 7 1332 at 15 Novopeschangya Ulitsa. His name
does not appear in the 1951 directory.
35. N. R. MIRONOV
Nikolai Pananavich MIRONOV. a I43 officer with possible Ukrainian
origins, appears to be closely acquainted with TSINEV, although there
is no evidence that this goes beyond a service friendship, strengthened,-
by possible cannon origins. In January 1956 TSINEV took an interest in
bNOV' a promotion to Major General and his re-assigxunent to LENINGRAD
from the 1B Third Main Directorate. (Earlier TSD V's deputy bad ?
referred to MIRONOV as "my Moscow chief".) MIRONOV's wife, Raisa
Isfanas'evna, stated that she had not wanted a transfer at all but, if
it had to be, she mould rather have boon nearer the Ukraine than further
away frees it. TSII~EV comforted her by saying that he thought it would
probably be only temporary - for no more than two years. He added
his congratulations on }WONOV's promotion. Both N11UNOV and TSINT'V
use the formal form of speech when addressing each other.
36. A. E. OSIPOV
clear ease of intimate friendship was revealed when Anatolia
Efimavioh QV arrived in .I PLIN on or about the 24. Feb 56. II 1(
and SINEV greeted each other as old friends, both using -the familiar
style of speech. ' OSIPOV announced that he had came for the T EI?ZIG
Fair "to trade with the capitalist countries", and he -would be staying
with Ail?.RSEIICO. On that same night and on a subsequent occasion- .
TSINL'V arranged for OSIPOV to stay with him. Upon OSIPOV's return to
MO3COFI on 20 March TSINEV asked him to deliver a package-to his daughter.
Dind and to kiss Nadezhda Daminikovna (not necessarily OSIPOV'a wife)
for him.
37. M. PInnINI: (nee-DAISXliYA)
Source material reveals that a friend: of TSINEV' s daughter,,,Vh rya ?
WaLWIA, married a Vladimir PI~RF'1N on 4 March 56. -She told TSINEV and.
s 74' a on 17 March that she had arrived. in.VDSMT thsb day before with
her husband wham she would be seeing off to VLFDIVOSTOL - She would
return home to MINSK in order to finish her studies by June, 'arid, she
would then be going to VI,:IDIVOSTOK to join her husband. She hoped the
might see the TSINEV'a in MOS on her 'way through. ?
Source firmly identified Vera lleksandrovna POIc1:OVSKAYI: who.
lived in MOSCOW, as a good friend the 'S3V family. TSINEV 'and
f his wife :...::,
38. V. A. POHI OVSKIY1 j
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 his wife made periodic telephone calls to her Moscow Tel.No. E--6 7467
(formerly B-2 7467)? Further details of her family and circumstances
are not known, but when TSII'V's daughter told her mother that Vera., had
bean. crying when- last she contacted her, the mother remarked. that "it
is difficult for them" and prompted TSINEV into telephoning Vera.
N. A. H~i EIOKOV
Imisimovich SH LOKOV probably MB, was mentioned by
TSINEV's r as having Called at their flat in MOSCOW twice during
March 1956. The first occasion he expected to find -TSINI7V there for the
Party Congress, for which he. had. came himself. He sent greetings to
TSIW,V via the daughter. TSINEV had already enquired of an unidentified
acquaintance as to whether SHCHEIOKOV was expected to acme to MOSCOW
for the Congress.
40. EL-0 MOV (fnu)
On 12 Nov 55 TSU EV told his wife that at a reception he bad met
Comrade SOIODOVNIKCV with when he had previously worked. SOIIDOVNIKOV
had later beccae'Director of the Bolshoi Theatre cad "was now Director
of the MOSCOW Arts Theatre". TSINEV continued: "He remembers me ---
so we can use a little pixll there if necessary".
4-1. TIDI)NOV fnu)
TSINEV's daughter told him on 19 Feb -56 that the TIKEONOV!s had
called at their UOSCOtW, flat and asked that TSINEV telephone' them. They
had said that TSIDiEV was due in MSCOWW' long ago and.they had been sax-'he
would be there. TSINEV bad been told by his wife on 6 Nov 55 that
TIK )NOV "has not rung". This appeared to be in connection with the
general contacting of friends to n^,.ark the celebration of the October
Revolution.
42. Leonid Il'ich (snu)
Friends with a possible Ukrainian background included a Leonid'
Il'ich, apparently a ICGB- officer of equal or superior rank to TSIN V,
nbo, was stationed outside MOSCOtid during the period covered by source.
43. His f rrst appearance in source material was in February 1956' when
Lecaii.d Il'ioh was said by an unidentified acq aintanoe of TSIIIEV to have
stated that he was cantig to MJSCO"If (presumably for the. 20th Party
Congress) and to have suggested that "all the fellow-countrymen" should
have a big get-together.. This specifically included* TSINEV-and WRONOV.
TSINk3V told the unidentified person that he could not be in MOSCOW
at the time of the Congress but asked that his greetings should be given
to all his "fellow-ca. tzynen", if they had not forgotten him.
41+. Farther mention of Leonid Ii'ich was made by .SINEV'a daughter,
who told her father, by telephone Fran MOSCOW, that he had sent same
apples through Serezha (y/i). On 2 Mar 56 she again talked to her
father and said she had heard indirectly that Leonid Ii'ich had stated
he was making . every effort to bring about TSI V'a transfer to MOSCOW
(See Para 17). On 21 Jan 56 TSMV had asked whether "anyone' fran
Leonid Il'irh'a side" was in MOSCOW at that time.
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