Foreign Department

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Pavel Sudoplatov - Early Life and Career
... into the Cheka in 1921, at the age of fourteen, and was promoted to the Secret Political Department of the Ukrainian State Political Directorate (OGPU) in 1927 ... In the fall of 1938, he was made acting director of the Foreign Department of the NKVD (as the OGPU had by then become) after the purging of the previous head, in a set of purges which ... Sudoplatov, promoting him to deputy director of the Foreign Department, and placed him in charge of the assassination of Trotsky, which was carried out ...
First Chief Directorate - History of Foreign Intelligence in The Soviet Union
... From the beginning, foreign intelligence played an important role in the Soviet foreign policy ... In the Soviet Union, foreign intelligence was formally formed in 1920, as a foreign department of Cheka (Inostrannyj Otdiel—INO) ... one organ which was named Special Section (department) of Cheka ...

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