NKVD
 NKVD  (Secret police, Intelligence agency, Interior ministry)    | |
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| Successor | MVD |
| Headquarters | Lubyanka Square,  Moscow, .svg){kind=small} USSR |
| Membership | • Gaik Ovakimyan • Semyon Semyonov • Boris Bykov • Vassili Zarubin • Alexander Feklissov • Leonid Kvasnikov • Anatoly Gorsky • Iskhak Akhmerov • Boris Bazarov • Peter Gutzeit • Gerhart Eisler • Elizabeth Zarubina • Vassili Mironov |
| The name of the Soviet internal and external intelligence agency from 1934 until 1946; the predecessor of the KGB. | |
The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs, abbreviated as NKVD, was both the interior ministry and the internal intelligence agency of the Soviet Union from 1934 to 1946. The agency was formed to succeed the Joint State Political Directorate (OGPU) secret police organization, and thus had a monopoly on intelligence and state security functions. After a period as the MGB, from 1954 until 1991 the main security agency of the Soviet Union was named the KGB.
US Agents
John Simkin's article on the NKVD lists the following NKVD agents in the US: Gaik Ovakimyan, Semyon Semyonov, Boris Bykov, Vassili Zarubin, Alexander Feklissov, Leonid Kvasnikov, Anatoly Gorsky, Iskhak Akhmerov, Boris Bazarov, Peter Gutzeit, Gerhart Eisler, Elizabeth Zarubina and Vassili Mironov.
Agents recruited in the United States included Cedric Belfrage, Elizabeth Bentley, Marion Bachrach, Joel Barr, Abraham Brothman, Earl Browder, Karl Hermann Brunck, Louis Budenz, Whittaker Chambers, Frank Coe, Henry Hill Collins, Lauchlin Currie, Hope Hale Davis, Samuel Dickstein, Martha Dodd, Laurence Duggan, Gerhart Eisler, Noel Field, Harold Glasser, Vivian Glassman, Jacob Golos, Theodore Hall, Alger Hiss, Donald Hiss, Joseph Katz, Charles Kramer, Duncan Chaplin Lee, Harvey Matusow, Hede Massing, Paul Massing, Boris Morros, William Perl, Victor Perlo, Lee Pressman, Joszef Peter, Mary Price, William Remington, Alfred Sarant, Abraham George Silverman, Helen Silvermaster, Nathan Silvermaster, Alfred Stern, William Ludwig Ullmann, Julian Wadleigh, Harold Ware, William Weisband, Nathaniel Weyl, Donald Niven Wheeler, Harry Dexter White, Nathan Witt and Mark Zborowski.[1]
Known members
6 of the 13 of the members already have pages here:
| Member | Description |
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| Boris Bazarov | Assassinated spook |
| Vassili Mironov | |
| Gaik Ovakimyan | |
| Semyon Semyonov | NKVD |
| Vasily Zarubin | |
| Elizabeth Zarubina |
