Boris Yakovlevich Bazarov
Boris Jakowlewitsch Basarow ( Russian Борис Яковлевич Базаров ; born May 27, 1893 in Kelmė , Kovno Governorate ; † February 21, 1939 in Moscow ) was a Soviet secret service officer who served as chief resident in New York from 1935 to 1937 .
Bazarov was Boris Yakovlevich Schpak 1893 in Kaunas district in Lithuania born, which in the western part of the then Russian Empire was. He spoke German , Bulgarian , French and Croatian . Basarow worked from 1921 for the Gossudarstvennoje polititscheskoje uprawlenije (OGPU) and was on a secret mission in Bulgaria and Yugoslavia until 1924 . Before 1927 he also worked in the Russian representation in Vienna .
From 1927 he was in charge of the Balkan activities of the OGPU. In 1928 he resigned for health reasons, but was sent by the OGPU to Berlin that same year , where he was in charge of illegal groups on behalf of the embassy.
1935–1938 he worked for the management of the Russian legation in the United States .
Basarow was presumably shot in the course of the "Great Purge" in 1939. He was posthumously rehabilitated in 1956.
literature
- Hede Massing : That Deception, New York, NY: Duel, Sloan and Pearce, (1951).
- Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev: The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America — the Stalin Era. New York: Random House, 1999
- Basarov on the official website of the Russian Intelligence Service
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Basarow, Boris Jakowlewitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Базаров, Борис Яковлевич (Russian); Schpak, Boris Jakowlewitsch (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet intelligence officer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 27, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kelmė , Kowno Governorate |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 21, 1939 |
| Place of death | Moscow |