Boris Bazarov
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Boris Jakovlevich Bazarov (1893 - 1939) was a Soviet spy.
He was born in 1893 in Kovno gubernia of Russian Empire (modern Lithuania). He spoke German, Bulgarian, French and Serbo-Croatian.
Bazarov joined the Soviet secret police (OGPU) in 1921 and began working in illegal operations in Bulgaria and Yugoslavia in 1924. From 1924 to 1927, he worked in the USSR's embassy in Vienna, simultaneously supervising Austrian, Bulgarian, Yugoslavian and Romanian agents. In 1927, Bazarov returned to Moscow and supervised the Balkan sector. In 1928, he moved to Berlin and ran the illegal rezidentura which included France, while continuing to work on the Balkan line. In Paris, the rezidentura had eleven agents, in Bucharest six, Sofia two, Zagreb two, and one for Belgrad and Istanbul. In 1935, Bazarov took up the position of illegal rezident in the United States.
Bazarov was suspected in the Great Purges and shot in 1939. He was posthumously rehabilitated in 1956.
[edit] References
- Hede Massing, This Deception, New York, NY: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, (1951).
- Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev, The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America—the Stalin Era (New York: Random House, 1999).
- (Russian) Bazarov on the official site of Russian Intelligence Service
