Sergei Alexandrovich Kondrashov

Grave of Sergei Alexandrovich Kondrashov

Sergei Alexandrowitsch Kondraschow ( Russian Сергей Александрович Кондрашев ; born March 1, 1923 in Sergiev ; † September 22, 2007 ) was a Soviet lieutenant general and secret service employee .

After graduating from school, Kondrashov studied at the Aviation Institute in Moscow from 1940 . From 1944 to 1947 he worked as a translator for the Union Society for Cultural Relations with Abroad and at the same time worked for the Ministry of State Security of the USSR . From 1947 Kondraschow became an employee of the counterintelligence and was last there as deputy head of the America department. In 1951 he switched to foreign intelligence, where he was deputy head of the England department until 1953. From 1953 to 1955, under the guise of a 1st Embassy Secretary at the Embassy of the Soviet Union in London , Kondrashov was the liaison officer of the Soviet secret service, which has since been renamed the KGB , to agent George Blake . He then headed the Germany department of the First Headquarters of the KGB (PGU) until 1957 and was then deputy resident of the KGB in Vienna for five years . For a short time, Kondrashov was deputy head of the KGB's Department for Disinformation in 1962/63 , before returning to head of the PGU's Germany department from 1963 to 1966. In 1966/67 he was employed as an agent in the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1968 he was appointed head of the PGU's illegal investigation administration. Later he was deputy head of foreign intelligence. In 1992 he retired, after which he worked as a historian. He died in 2007 and was buried in the Kunzewo Cemetery in Moscow.

Publications

• (with George Bailey and David E. Murphy ): Battleground Berlin. CIA vs. KGB in the Cold War . Yale University Press, New Haven 1997.
  • German first edition: George Bailey, Sergej A. Kondraschow, David E. Murphy: The invisible front. The war of the secret services in divided Berlin . Propylaea, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-549-05603-6 ).
• Strengths and weaknesses of the Soviet intelligence services, especially with regard to Germany in the post-war period . In: Wolfgang Krieger, Jürgen Weber (Eds.): Espionage for Peace? Olzog, Munich / Landsberg a. L. 1997, ISBN 3-7892-9280-X , pp. 145-153.
• Richard Sorge and his group . In: Heiner Timmermann et al. (Ed.): Espionage, ideology, myth - the Richard Sorge case. LIT Verlag, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-8258-7547-4 , pp. 125-149.

literature

• Helmut Roewer , Stefan Schäfer, Matthias Uhl : Lexicon of the secret services in the 20th century . Munich 2003, ISBN 3-7766-2317-9 , p. 245.

Web links

• Biography on the website of the Russian foreign intelligence service SWR
• Literature by and about Sergei Alexandrowitsch Kondraschow in the catalog of the German National Library