Boris Ignatevich Guds

Boris Ignatevich Guds ( Russian Борис Игнатьевич Гудзь ; born August 19, 1902 in Ufa , Russian Empire , † December 27, 2006 in Moscow ) was a Russian secret service veteran who also worked as a writer after his retirement .

Guds was regarded as a great fighter who had been active on the side of the Bolsheviks as early as 1917 at the time of the October Revolution . In 1923 he became an employee of the Soviet secret police Cheka under Felix Dzerzhinsky and fought in Chechnya and Dagestan from 1924 when riots broke out there. This began his rise within the organization, which eventually made him head of the espionage department in eastern Siberia in 1932, where he was responsible for a number of successful operations against Japan. He also directed the measures that led to the capture of the notorious Cossack leader Topchayev.

He was later sent to Japan as a resident of the Soviet intelligence service GPU , where, disguised as an embassy employee, he worked in Tokyo from 1934 to 1936 and built up a spy network around the German top spy Richard Sorge , who acts as a correspondent for the Frankfurter Zeitung , and numerous important warriors Gathered information from Japanese government circles. Back in Moscow he was in charge of the network when he lost his membership in the Communist Party and all posts in the secret service as a result of the Stalinist " purges " in 1937 - which fell victim to countless intellectuals, opposition figures, but also state employees.

From then on he earned his living as a bus driver. When he retired, he was a sought-after writer who studied the history of the Soviet secret services and was awarded the "Medal No. 1" for his educational work by the Society for the Study of the History of the Local Secret Services.

Quotes

“A hysteria was sparked, the so-called spy mania, the fear of alleged spies who allegedly infiltrate the state everywhere. Death to the enemy, death to the parasite, that is our watchword. Masses of people have been arrested and locked up using this method. People were dominated by fear. "

- Boris Guds, NKVD officer, 1937 : in the documentary Stalin, the Tyrant by Ralf Biechowiak and Alexander Berkel

Web links

• http://www.rosritual.ru/nekrolog/show-25.html (in Russian)
• http://chekist.ru/article/1463 (in russ.)
• http://www.peoples.ru/military/scout/gudz/ (in Russian)
• http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2129995.ece in (Engl.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://svr.gov.ru/smi/2004/rodngaz20040611.htm (for the 102nd birthday on August 19, 2004)
2. ↑ see: Der Spiegel , 2/2007 , page 232
3. ↑ see: Archive link ( Memento of the original from January 8, 2007 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. 
4. ↑ cf. Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 13, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.