Vadim Kuchin
Vadim Witoldowitsch Kutschin ( Russian Вадим Витольдович Кучин ; born February 19, 1920 , † 1979 in Moscow ) was a Soviet intelligence worker and colonel of the KGB . His aliases were Colonel Karpow , Wladimir Apollonowitsch Karpow and Dr. Tailor . He had trained as a Germanist and spoke fluent German.
Career
After completing his studies at the Moscow Institute of Philosophy and Literature in 1941 , he completed a special course at a special school of the Interior Ministry of the USSR (NKVD) until 1942 and joined the NKVD operational group. From 1944 to 1945 this special unit was used in the 1st Belarusian Front . During the signing of the unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht by the Chief of the High Command of the Wehrmacht Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel in Berlin-Karlshorst , he was responsible for the security of the Soviet delegation headed by Marshal Georgi Schukow . Shortly after the end of the war, he became head of the residency in Nuremberg as an employee of the Ministry for State Security in Germany , where he was involved in preparing the indictments for the Nuremberg trials .
From 1949 to 1959 he was an advisor to the MGB / KGB agent in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). He was significantly involved in the case of the then President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Otto John , whom he claims to have convinced about his supposedly voluntary transfer to the GDR on July 20, 1954 and who he supervised during his stay in the GDR.
From 1959 to 1962 he was an employee of the First Headquarters of the KGB (PGU) in its Moscow headquarters. From 1962 to 1968 he was the chief liaison officer of the KGB to the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR and was involved in numerous intelligence operations of the MfS against the Federal Republic of Germany .
From 1968 until his death in 1979 he held a leading position at the PGU headquarters in Moscow.
Honors
literature
- Helmut Roewer , Stefan Schäfer, Matthias Uhl : Lexicon of the secret services in the 20th century . Herbig, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-7766-2317-9 . P. 259.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Short biography on the website of the Russian foreign secret service SWR. SWR , accessed April 25, 2011 (Russian).
- ↑ Bernd Stöver : Refuge GDR: Spies and other emigrants. Beck, Munich 2009. ISBN 978-3-406-59100-6 . P. 174 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kuchin, Vadim |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kutschin, Vadim Witoldowitsch (full name); Colonel Karpov (alias); Karpow, Wladimir Apollonowitsch (alias); Doctor Schneider (alias); Кучин, Вадим Витольдович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet intelligence officer and colonel in the KGB |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 19, 1920 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1979 |
| Place of death | Moscow |