History of Soviet espionage in the United States
... file members, supervised CPUSA cooperation with the OGPU and GRU. Browder was given personal credit ... recruitment of eighteen agents in a 1946 OGPU memo. In the 1930s, the chief Soviet ... In the late 1930s and 1940 the OGPU, known as the Political Directorate, used the ... one of several staging areas for multiple OGPU plots to murder exiled Soviet leader Leon ... disbanded the Comintern in 1943. A Moscow OGPU message to all stations on 12 ...
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Talk:NKVD
... 54, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC) VeCheKa/GPU/OGPU/GUGB/NKGB/MGB I believe there are ... of diversity. I insist that Cheka, GPU/OGPU, GUGB, NKGB and early MGB are essentially ... synonym for the GULAG and the Cheka/OGPU/GUGB, which were instruments of Stalin's ... their historical sections, the Chronology and Cheka/OGPU/GUGB/NKGB/MGB articles should be combined ... GUGB (which is a evolution of Cheka/OGPU) was called for two months until ...
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First Chief Directorate
... Department of Joint State Political Administration or OGPU. In July 1934, OGPU was reincorporated into NKVD of the USSR ... by joining Cheka and later worket in OGPU Economic Department. Then in 1931 he went to serve in OGPU'S Foreign Department (INO), and often left ... of foreign intelligence he was working in OGPU/GUGB counter-intelligence and Secret Political ...
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NKVD
... for State Security (GUGB), which succeeded the OGPU and the Cheka as the secret police ... 1923, the GPU was transformed into the OGPU (Joint State Political Directorate), under the Council ... as various other responsibilities. In 1934, the OGPU was incorporated into the newly-created NKVD ... Ministry (in Russian) MEMORIAL: history of the OGPU/NKVD/MGB/KGB (in Russian)
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Frinovskiy, Mikhail Petrovich   (translated from Russian)
... 23 June 1923 - the chief of embassy OGPU on the southeast). During November 1923. it ... March 1924. Frinovskiy - first deputy plenipotentiary OF OGPU on the North Caucasus, from January 1926 ... name F. 3. Dzerzhinskiy with the board OGPU OF THE USSR. 1 September 1930. Frinovskiy ... the main administration of the boundary protection OGPU OF THE USSR, and already on 10 ...
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Special services   (translated from Russian)
... the abolition VCHK. United state political control (OGPU) with SNK USSR - Council of People's ... OF THE USSR. By chairman GPU and OGPU F remained to the end of its ... whom it replaced in. R.Menzhinskiy, headed OGPU to 1934. Narodnyy commissariat of the internal ... USSR. After death Of menzhinskogo by work OGPU, and later and THE NKVD from 1934 ...
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Pavel Sudoplatov
... the Secret Political Department of the Ukrainian OGPU in 1927. He transferred to the Soviet OGPU in 1933, moving to Moscow, and soon ... Foreign Department of the NKVD (as the OGPU had by then become) after the purging ...
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Vladimir Mikhaylovich Petrov (diplomat)
... encrypt and decrypt the secret signals. Joining OGPU He decided to join the Soviet spy organization, the OGPU, in May of 1933. He was subsequently ... attached to the Foreign Department of the OGPU. It was his status in this section ...
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Trust Operation
... presented as a spectacular counterintelligence success of OGPU in 1921-1926. "Trest" was an operation ... having a loose organisational structure. When the OGPU discovered them, they did not liquidate them ... an "illegal" trip (in fact, monitored by OGPU) of a notable emigree Vasily Shulgin into ...
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Chronology of Soviet secret police agencies
... November 15, 1923: GPU was reorganized into OGPU under the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR. OGPU - "Joint State Political Directorate" or "All-Union ... July 1926 - May 1934 July 10, 1934: OGPU became GUGB of the NKVD of the ...
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