Fitin

Pavel Fitin - NKVD Deputy Head
... Fitin became deputy chief of the NKVD's foreign intelligence in 1938, then a year later at the age of thirty-one became chief ... Fitin also is credited with providing ample warning of the German Invasion of 22 June 1941 that began the German-Soviet War ... Only the actual invasion saved Fitin from execution for providing the head of the NKVD, Lavrenty Beria, with information General Secretary of the CPSU, Joseph Stalin did not want to believe ...

First Chief Directorate - Chiefs of Foreign Intelligence
... intelligence school (SHON), Major of State Security Pavel Fitin ... Fitin graduated from a program in engineering studies at the Timiryazev Agricultural Academy in 1932 after which he served in the Red Army, then became an editor for ... Fitin became deputy chief of the NKVD's foreign intelligence in 1938, then a year later at the age of thirty-one became chief ...

Harold Glasser - Perlo Group
... In an 25 April 1945 memo from Pavel Fitin, head of KGB foreign intelligence, to Vsevolod Merkulov, head of the overall KGB organization, Fitin asked ... Fitin called Merkulov's attention to the fact that Glasser had been working for Soviet intelligence for a long time, since May 1937, usually for the KGB but also at times for the GRU ... Fitin explained how, while Glasser was working with the GRU, Glasser felt he had been slighted ...