Mikhail Trilisser

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Mikhail Abramovich Trilisser-Moskvin (Russian: Мейер Абрамович Трилиссер; Jewish born Meier Abramovich Trilisser; 1 April 1883, Astrakhan - 1940) headed the foreign intelligence operations of the Soviet Union from May 1922 (when they were part of the Cheka) to October 1929 (when they were part of OGPU). He was working in Comintern under the name Mikhail Aleksandrovich Moskvin.

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• Directing the Purges and supervising the NKVD
• The trial that was not held by Boris A. Starkov