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© e ■ i g m a b o « k s ALEXANDER FEKLISOV and SERGEI KOSTIN The Man Behind the Rosenbergs By the KGB Spymaster who was the case officer of Julius Rosenberg, Klaus Fuchs, and helped resolve the Cuban Missile Crisis Introduction by Ronald Radosh enigma books All rights reserved under the International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by enigma books 580 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY 10018 www.enigmabooks.com Originally published in French under the tide: Confession d’un agent soviétique Translated by Catherine Dop © enigma books 2001 Introduction copyright © Ronald Radosh 2001 © Éditions du Rocher, 1999 No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the written permission of enigma books. Printed in Canada Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Feklisov, Aleksandr, 1914- [Confession d’un agent soviétique] The man behind the Rosenbergs : by the KGB spymaster who was the case officer of Julius Rosenberg, Klaus Fuchs, and helped resolve the Cuban Missile Crisis / Alexander Feklisov and Sergei Kostin ; introduction by Ronald Radosh. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 1-929631-08-1 Translated from the French by Catherine Dop. 1. Feklisov, Alexander, 1914- 2. Rosenberg, Julius, 1918-1953. 3. Rosenberg, Ethel, 1915-1953.4. Espionage, Soviet—United States. 5. Spies—Soviet Union—Biography. 6. Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. 7. Soviet Unioin—Relations— United States. 8. United States— Relations—Soviet Union. I. Kostin, Sergei. II. Radosh, Ronald. III. Dop, Catherine, 1948- IV. Title. V. Title: Confession d’un agent soviétique. UB271.R92 F4513 327.1/2/0947 B The Man Behind the Rosenbergs Contents Abbreviations iii Introduction by Ronald Radosh v The Crossroads of History xxiii PART ONE From Worker's Alley to 61st Street 1 PART TWO Foul Play or Gentleman's Profession? 47 PART THREE Fighting Comrade and Fellow Soldiers 101 PART FOUR A New War 159 PART FIVE The Puritan of Espionage 189 PART SIX The Wrecking of a Network 265 PART SEVEN The Clash of the Titans 337 Notes 413 Index 421 Acknowledgements 428 Abbreviations Abwher German military intelligence, 1933-1945 Amtorg Soviet trade organization based in New York City Cheka First Soviet Secret Police 1917-1922 Cl Committee of Information, Soviet intelligence coordination committee 1947-1952, also spelled KI CIA Central Intelligence Agency, U.S. foreign espionage Comintern Communist International 1919-1943, dissolved by Stalin CPSU Communist Party of the Soviet Union CPUS A Communist Part of the United States of America DST Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire, French coun terintelligence FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. counterespionage FSB Federalnaya Slu^hba Be^opasnosti — Federal Security Ser vice - new name of the Russian internal security police; formerly the KGB GDR German Democratic Republic: East Germany from 1949-1989 GE General Electric Corporation Gestapo Nazi Germany’s secret police 1933-1945 GPU Soviet Secret Police 1922-1934 GRU Soviet military intelligence INO Soviet Foreign Intelligence 1920-1934 initials also used when referring to the PGU KGB Committee for State Security - included all the secret services of the USSR MI5 British counterintelligence MI6 British foreign intelligence MID Soviet foreign ministry MGB Ministry of State Security, 1946-1954 NKVD People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs 1923-1943 NS A National Security Agency — U.S. signals intelligence unit OSS Office of Strategic Services — American foreign espio nage during the Second World War (predecessor of the CIA) Alexander Feklisov PGU Soviet foreign intelligence from 1934 to 1991 also known as the First Chief Directorate of the KGB SED East German Socialist Unity Party 1949-1989 SIS U.S. Army Signal Intelligence Service, predecessor of the NSA Stasi Staatssicherheits East German secret police and informa tion service SVR Slu^hba Vneshney Ra^yedki foreign intelligence service of Russia since 1991 when it replaced the PGU depart ment of the KGB.
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