Anatoly Antonovich Jatskow

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Anatoly Antonovich Jatskow

Anatoli Antonowitsch Jazkow ( Russian : Анатолий Антонович Яцков ; actually Anatoli A. Jakowlew ; born  May 31, 1913 in Belgorod-Dnestrovsky , Bessarabia Governorate , Russian Empire ; †  March 26, 1993 in Moscow ) was a member of the Embassy of Moscow during the Second World War USSR in New York .

However, his diplomatic activities were only a cover for his function as resident of the NKVD in the United States . He was not tracked down there during his work; In 1946 he returned to the Soviet Union.

Jazkow acted as a command officer ("John") of the contact man Harry Gold of nuclear spy Klaus Fuchs .

He was awarded the Order of the October Revolution and the Order of the Red Star by the Soviet Union .

literature

  • Ronald Friedmann: Klaus Fuchs. The man who wasn't a spy. The life of the communist and scientist Klaus Fuchs. 2006, ISBN 3938686448
  • Eberhard Panitz: Meeting Point Banbury or How the Atomic Bomb Came to the Russians. Klaus Fuchs, Ruth Werner and the greatest espionage case in history. 2003, ISBN 3360009908
  • John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999)
  • Robert Chadwell Williams: Klaus Fuchs, Atom Spy . Harvard University Press: Cambridge, Massachusetts and London 1987, ( ISBN 0-674-50507-7 ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Яцков Анатолий Антонович , warheroes.ru (Russian)
  2. ↑ Яцков Анатолий Антонович ( Memento of the original from May 10, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , svr.gov.ru (Russian) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / svr.gov.ru
personal data
SURNAME Jazkov, Anatoly Antonovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jakowlew, Anatoli Antonowitsch (maiden name); Яцков, Анатолий Антонович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet diplomat and spy
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Belgorod-Dnestrovsky , Bessarabia Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1993
Place of death Moscow