Loyal Comrades, Ruthless Killers: The Secret Services of the USSR, 1917-1991 |
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... reported optimistically to Paris . The OGPU aim was total control of any movements of ROVS agents in Russia , thus ... reported that three people were shot while trying to cross it , one of them being British agent Sidney Reilly . They ...
... reported optimistically to Paris . The OGPU aim was total control of any movements of ROVS agents in Russia , thus ... reported that three people were shot while trying to cross it , one of them being British agent Sidney Reilly . They ...
Page 94
... reported that the war would start in the second half of 1941 , whereas others , no less trustworthy , pointed to the spring of the same year . Between February and March 1941 some messages were more precise : the war , they said , would ...
... reported that the war would start in the second half of 1941 , whereas others , no less trustworthy , pointed to the spring of the same year . Between February and March 1941 some messages were more precise : the war , they said , would ...
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... reported . None of the Soviet spies was able to get information about the real Operation Barbarossa , the codename for the German assault . No wonder : only nine copies of the plan were made , and three of them were handed over to the ...
... reported . None of the Soviet spies was able to get information about the real Operation Barbarossa , the codename for the German assault . No wonder : only nine copies of the plan were made , and three of them were handed over to the ...
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