SOVIET INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY RU PERSONNEL SERVING WITH SOVIET MILITARY MISSIONS IN WEST GERMANY (1955 - 1956)

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• Publication Date: July 22, 1957

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officer in BER.L N. Naval Cxipt First Rank A. S. SOKOTAV was
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RU Personnel SorvinA with Soviet Military Missions in ?oat Ge
(1955 - 195
Source: clandestine source of established authenticity.
1. Of the 26 personalities identified by material available from
other sources as being members of the Soviet Military Missions in Wiest
Germany during 1955-56, this source has traced at least 16 in connection
with affairs of the GSFG Intelligence Directorate" (Razvedyyatolnoe
Upraylenio: RU). A further four officers, whose names have not
appeared elsewhere, may also be RU personnel stationed with the SbViet
Military Missions in FR1 1'IJRT/Lain, U Zone; BAD SI.LZUFLIN, U.N.
Tone; or ADEN BADIN, French Zone.
- establishes the subordination of some, if not all, of these
officers to the RU at HQ, GSE'G;
indicates that they participated in the procurement of
information (possibly including communications intelliancs) by
clandestine moans, as well as procurement of materiel for the RU; and
- reveals the existence of radio communications between the RU
and at least one of the missions.
Information from source also shows extensive odntaots between the RU
and members of the Soviet office in BERLIN/TOTSDAM which conducted
liaison with the Allied Military Missions in East Germany. (This
aspect-of RU activities is not included in this report; Col. L.A.
SERGEEV and Lt Col N.R. GMWO were the senior officers in the .
BERT N/POTSDAM office.) I1U officer remarked on 14 Dee 55 that
Col N. Ta. DUKI: was being considered for three jobs, one of them. to
SOKOIUq 'A involving "external relations similar to what. jo1.L.Aj
SERGEEV does with us", and a Brook later it was stated that DUKA might
be assigned as liaison officer with the Western Armed Forces.
Cbaswnt: DUSA is not believed to have been reassigned, as late.as
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 3. Attached as Appondix & is a complete list of Military Mission
personalities traced in source material, together with details of
references to them.
4. Evidence of the subordination of at least some of the members of
the Soviet-Military Missions to HQ, GSF'G, vtas contained in a 2 Sep 55
telecon with the Ministry of Defense in which the participant at HQ,
GM, pointed out that the GSB Chief of Staff had issued an order
earlier in the year concerning the replacement of Lt Col DUBEL',
KOKOLIN, IGWR IEV, and UD1!1.
Comment: Officers having those names have boon identified by other
sources as members of the PRuRgURT/MainMission. The RU,
according to tlus and other sources, was a component of the
GSM Chief of Staff's branch.
5- The subordination of members of military missions to the RU, of the
GSFG Chief of Staff's branch, was pinpointed in a 19 Jan 56 telecon
between the RU and the Main Intelligence Directorate in MOSCOW;
MOSCD7: I will check immediately the personal files of S[TESHNIKOVt--
lC/ 7a!rOV, DOICOV, VOIASHIfx, IV:NOV, and VYBORNOV.
RU: I request you not to hold up this despatch of the personal
files for all of the officers assigned to us. U to now
there are no personal files for SVESfINISDVb K i ORTOV, DOILOV,
and now for VOLDSHIN, IVINW, rand) V1HCFROV oho have just
arrived.
Later in the telecon the RU stated: "You sent Comrade K[J)RTOV with three
children to us, and he was obliged to leave his wife With the children
in POTSp11M, moving alone into the zone, because his children were not
accepted in a boarding school."
Comment: Other sources identify Cal G.A. SVESf]I1 DV, Lt 001 K.P.
KHURTOV, and DOIGOV as being on the staff of the FR!',PII F UR`P/
::lain mission, and Sr Lt A.D. VYBORNOV on the staff of the
hissioii at BAD ZATZUFI .. ? Further ii iforenbos -ta:IVJ'NOV k-.vho
like VOIASHIN is unlocatod from material currently available,
are given in paragraph -7 a.
6. Two references to Lt Col DUBEL', of the FRlMXFURT/1ain mission,
provide additional confirmation of the subordination of military mission
members to the RU. On 8 Sop 55 Mai Gen A.E. CHF7CFIIITSEV, Chief, RU,
notified the Main Intelligence Directorate: "Lt Col DUBEL' is leaving
on 9 September on a regular furlough. Comrade UDPIOV requests that he
remain at his post. In connection with this, please begin prooossixig
his return trip into the zone, Personal records are being'sent to your
address.., Uo propose that Lt Col Aleksandr Afanas'evioh ISAEV of
GINDYBIN's be appointed Deputy Chief of the Mission. Please communicate
your opinion to KUDIAV." During the course of a telecon with the Main
Intelligence Directorate on 17 Sap 55, an RU officer stated: "The second
Cquestio~ concerns DUBEjLJ; UDALOV strongly requests his retention
because he has improved at the present time. It is, thoreforo,
advisable to leave an old enpioyoo who is experienced in this work.
.And what is the situation concerning REEiIKCV? You have appointed
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 Continent: V.L. UDAJ1DV was a rtomber of the FRANKFORT,4(ein mission and
ISAEV and GAMYB121 of the BAD SALZUFLEt mission..
FROCJB i T OF INFY7RtitTICQd AND ATERiEt,
7. References suggesting or confirming the participation of military
mission personnel in the procurement of information and materiel on
behalf of the RU are as follows: -
a) Purchases in West Marks
Co]. V.V. MIKIIAILOV (Chief, RU 4: : ?/T communications) had
been instructed to have Vladimir Lvont'evioh UDAIOY and Col
M.G. BELOV (Chief, RU detachment, BERLm) make certain
purchases in West Marks, it was stated on 9/3.4 Nov 55.
b) The Soviet Ship 'YAWAI
In a 7 Jan 56 telooon between Col MflUMIIOV and Lt Col
A.P. MARTYNYCHEV (W/T oomuninieations, Main Intelligence
Directorate), the latter stated: "Mai JaWZTCV of the British
Mission /iutgl Miss3.ya7 must hand over the documents to the
Captain of the Soviet ship 'YATW . Today the ship is at
HAMBUI for repair and testing. He rpresumably KURB~AAGIV will
arrive at HANBUEG nn the 8th and ban start his assignod trip
on the 9th. Therefore, Co].. Z7.v.vj PIREICHUA ,'r communioa"
tions, Main 7ntelli mince Dirootorat27 asked that you be told
to take all measures to warn Maj KURBATOV about -the -
circt:mstanco that has arisen and to make sure that he hands
over the documents on 8 January. According ko our information,
the ship will come into port for a stop on the night of
7 January. Also, the captain of the ship was notified that
he should receive the documents from KURBATOV. Can you
forewarn Kfk2BATOV?.. "
MIKHAILOV replied: "I'm taking care of this matter. We
sent out the documents yesterday. KURBATOV went out into
tho zone at 0500 today. I'll give him instructions right
away by radio..."
Comment: Mej G.I. ERB:T'0V joined the Soviet Military Mission at
BAD SALZUFLEN on 10 Doc 53, other sources have reported, and
he remained there throughout January 1956;? the itinerary of
the Soviet ship tJJp ' was as follows:
3 Dec 55 - Arrived FLLTISBUM to tow a floating dock
4 Dec 55 - Arrived HALIDU13G
10 Doe 55 - Sailed from HAMBURG
11 Jan 56 - Arrived PLYMOUTH, England
18 Jan 56 - Sailed from PLI ITH
7 Fob 56 - Arrived TRIN]D:J)
22 Feb 56 - Arrived. PLNE1MA
17 Mar 56 - Arrived HONOLULU
20 Mar 56 Sailed from HC IOXULU for VLtD1VOSTOCK
Possible Communications Intolligence Lotivities -
Two RU-Main Intelligence Directorate toloeons made reference
to an IVANOV. Although a common name, there is the possibility
of this IVANOV being identical with the IVANOV mentioned .in,
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 a Military Mission context in Paragraph 5 above. In the .
first tolooon on 12 Jan 56 between communications intelligence
officors in GSM and M0SCO1.7, the letter asked whether
1VAN0V had arrived. Tho G officer. had just returned
from leave ared did not knots about IV11W so MOWN explained:
"He loft us to go to you with two Mhos comrades... I
won't say any more about him now; ho will come and tell you
everything and all will be clear to you..." The GSFG officer
answered: "That is clear. so will give him every possible
assistance and aid". On 25 Jan 56 the chief of the RU
Cadres Department stated: "Enginoor Maj 1VANOV asks to be
informed uhother you have selected an interpreter of the
English language for his group to replace AVBEEV 5robably
a corruption for AVDEEV but there is no other likely trace
.of either namj. The group cannot work without an inter-
protor; we will assign him to a position as intorprotor
for the regiment of ...1Lt Cog RYZHIKOV ,Comman3ar, 28
Special Purpose Radio Regiment, subordinate to the RUJ and
send him to the mission." The Main InttoLl.ig noo
Directorate officer answered; 'We do not have an inter-
preter for IViNCV at present, but if thero is a possibility,
select one locally and submit Zss name to us for drawing
up his appointment."
d) 'Microamporomotors'
An order for 40 mieroamporomoters, type "RY[I DE" (Q.D.)
manufactured by the NEUBERGFR firm, was given on 27/28 Mar 56
by Col SMIRNOV to Col A.N. CVCHZNNYKOV (Chief, RU detachment,
BERLIN). The same order, OVBTqTIKOV said, had also boon
given to CHFIZNOUSCV.
Comment; Col .8.1. CHERNCETSOV is identified by other-sources as Chief
of the Soviet Military Mission at FRANKFURT/Main.. According
to other sources, a firm making electrical measuring instru-
ments and callod. the "MUNICH Sales Office" is :Listed in the
West BERLIN telephone diroctory under the name Josef NEUBERGER,.
Suedonde, Rotweileratrasso 7a, BERLIN-STFThLITL, Tel. No.
75-41-46.
RADIO ([ICATICV8
8. Confirmation of the existence of W/T contacts betuocn the RU
and the mission at BAD SI1 UFLEN was provided on 7 Jan 56, when Col
MIKHAILOVV told MIIRTINYCHEV that he would give Maj KURBATOV "instructions
right away by radio" (See Para? (b) above). mother indication of the
existence of W/T contact bo-hvoon tno RU.and the military missions was
the statement by Lt Col WRT1 YCHEV to Lt Col N.M. STREL'NIKOV (Chief,
RU W/T station, SPffi NBF G-) on 18'Nov 55 that "the question regarding
admittances and affairs at the mission" had not yet been settled.
finally, there was the fact (noted in para 7(a)) that it was M iAIIrOV
who was to pass instructions to IIDAIOV for purchases in West Marks.
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 Appeni3i4 tA: to Mw 1035 of
22 Jul 1957
Members of Soviet 3$ 1itary- Missions in
West Gennanv
Surname
First Name & Rank
Pat o
'yC BORISOV
7 0enadii Capt
rleksan roviah -
`x CHERNOUSOV
Stepan Ivanovioh Col
DOIGOV
A.E. Lt Col
Lt Cal
Vladimir Col
IVanovich
-71
Lt Col
Aleksandr
Seh
Mai
`K
RHORTOV
Konstantin P. : It Col
KOKOLIN
BADEN BiADEN 14/15 Nov 55. A BORISOV,
.who could be found at the
RU, required a pass.to
enter a building. at HQ,
CSPG in order to call
MOSC)W using a secure
means of communication.
Comment: No other BORISOV
has been traced in an RU
context.
F'32ANK U1 E/ 19 Oat 55: A
SR
US
CJJERNOUSOV left the
M
i
n
a
on assignment to the RU.
27/261 Mar 56. Sec para 7d
FRINKFJF(I/ 19 Jan 56: See pare 5.
Main
FRANKFURT/ 2 Sep 55: See pare 4.
Main 8 and 11 Sep 55:
see pare 6.
BAD SALZUPLEN 8 Se;-:552- See pax-a 6*
Fi NKMRT/ 2 Sep 55: See gam ]+..
Main ' -
BAD SAIZUPLii 8 Sep 551 See pars 6.
and FRANKFUE /
Main
12 and 25 Jan 56:
See para.7d.
MJMUM/ 19 Jan 56: See pars 5,
F'RANKFURT'/ 2 Sep 55: See pars 4..
Main
6 Sep 55: Lt Col
STREL'NIKOV reported
to the Chief of the
RU detaohment.at ERFtJRT
that KOZIAVSKII had
telephoned to request.
a pass for REHIX0V,
who was subordinate
to the Chief of the
detachment.
17 Sep 55: See para 6.
106 Mar 561 KOZLOVSKEI
was to enter a hospital
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 Appendix 'Ai (continued)
Surname First Name &
RLtronymio
KOZLOVSKII (continued)
KUDL V
lctiviti as and
Remaxke
Comment: It is not certain
that KOZLOVSKII was in
a military mission in
West Germany.
8 Sep 55: See pars 6.
Cousnent: KUDLCV may
be a garble for UDALOV,
`F. KUHBATOV Grigorii Ivanovieh Maj BAD SAGZUKE 7 Jan 56: See pars 7e.
REPNIKOV 6 Sep 55: Bee under
XOZLOVM=
l7 Sep 55: See under
Para 6.
comment: It is not certain
that REITVIKOV,, subordinate
to the Chief of the RU
detachment at ERFURT, was
in a military mission in
West Germany.
X SEDOKOV Konstantin Lt Col FRANKFURT/ 27 Aug 55: A personnel
drovieh Main and officer in the Main.
BADEN BADEN Intelligence Directorate
mxrx Hrto r.n~? - t
Evgenevich
notified the Chief of the
RU Cadres Department that
SEDOKOV would "leave for
his place of service an
30 Augur-
t-"-2 Sep 55: The Chief of
the RU Cadres Department
stated: "I still would
like to be informed as
to when Col SEDOKOV left.
Earlier, you said he left
on the 30th. We met it
yesterday, but comrade
SEDOKOV did not arrive.
8 Oct 55: Col SMIRNOV
sent a message for
SEDOKOV and UDALOV to
remain in BERLIN that day.
9 Feb 56: col sYimV
said that there would be a
"man from the south,
from SEDOKOV," arriving,
possibly in BERLIN.
Lt FRANSFUHP/ 27 Dec 55: The Duty
S EC E F send , p file to
us". ../.. 5. .
Main Chief, RU, informed
the Chief of the
Personnel Directorate
Main Intelligence
Directorate, that STRUCHKC
had arrived "at his new'
place of service. Please
 Appendix 'A# (continued)
Surname
First Name &
Rank
Location
Activities and
Patrorwmic
Remarks
?~. SV&SANfIKOV
G.A.
Co].
FRANM'URT/
19 Jan 56: See pare 5.
UDALOV
Vladimir .
Col
FR/ UIfr/
2 Sep 55: See pares 4..
Conti ench
Main
8 and 17 Sep 55: See
pare 6.
8 Oct 55: See under
SEDOKOV.
9/14 Nov 55: See pare 6.1*,
VOLOSHIN A.P. Col BAD SALZUFLEN 2 Sep 55: "Maj Gen [ E.J
CHiECHSNTSEV [Chief, RuJ
~ VYBORNOV
and Col SMIRNOV object
categorically to the
assignment of either AZOV
or ZOLOTAREV to VOLOSHIN,-"
declared the Chief of the
RU Cadres Department.
"Comrades AZOV and
ZOIATAREV have been in the
Group of Forces for a
short time. As yet they
are not really familiar
with the situation,, and
to transfer them to other
work is not expedient."
Comment: Both Col.V.P.
AZOV and Col K. M. ZOWTAR3V
were still assigned to the
RU at HQ, GS1 J, and
engaged in agent oper-
ations as of-April 1956.
19 Jan 56: See pars 5-
9 Feb 56: "I request that
you give instructions for
sending us the personal
files of Col A.P.VOLOSHIN,
Col SMEMV asked the
Chief of the Cadres
Direatorate, Win
Intelligence Direotorate.
Aleksandr Dmitrieyich Sr Lt BAD SAIZUFM 19 Jan 56: See pars 5.
(1S -- Locations, with the exception of KURBATOV's, are provided by other sources.
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