Nikolai Khokhlov

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Nikolai Evgenievich Khoklov (1922-2007) was a KGB officer who defected to the United States in 1953. He testified about the KGB terrorist activities.

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[edit] Military career

Nikolai Khohlov was a member of a successful military unit that fought behind the enemy lines during World War II. He was disguised as a Nazi officer, after parachuting into German-occupied Belarus. He played a part in assassination of Wilhelm Kube, a Nazi Gauleiter. After the war, Khokhlov became a prototype of the main character in famous Soviet movie "Feat of a Scout" ("Подвиг разведчика") made in 1947.

[edit] Assassination mission

He was sent by KGB to supervise two other men whose task was to kill George Okolovich, a chairman of National Alliance of Russian Solidarists. He decided not to follow the order and discussed the situation with his wife, Yana. She said: "If this man is killed, you will be a murderer. I cannot be the wife of a murderer" [1]. Khokhlov came to Okolovich's flat in Frankfurt and told him: "Georgi Sergeevich, I have come to you from Moscow. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union has ordered your assassination. The murder is entrusted to my group... I can’t let this murder happen. " [1]. His wife was arrested and sentenced to five years of involuntary settlement in the Soviet Union, in retaliation.

[edit] Poisoning by thallium

He had been treated for thallium poisoning in Frankfurt in 1957 [2]. That was a failed assassination attempt by Thirteenth KGB Department [1]. This case is often claimed to be the first radiological attack by the KGB, especially when comparison with Alexander Litvinenko poisoning[3] needs to be drawn, although it remains unclear what isotope if any has been used[4]. Former KGB officer Stanislav Lekarev claimed however that Khokhlov was poisoned by radioactive polonium (not thallium), exactly as Litvinenko [5]

[edit] Life in the United States

From 1968 to 1992, Dr. Khoklov taught undergraduate and graduate psychology classes at California State University, San Bernardino, retiring as an emeritus professor in 1993. He later made e-mail contact with, then eventually met, a son in Russia that he was not aware of. His other son, Misha, died several years ago due to kidney failure. Nikolai Khokhlov lived in San Bernardino, California, until his death in September 2007.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b *Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West, Gardners Books (2000), ISBN 0-14-028487-7
  2. ^ Meeting with past (Russian)
  3. ^ Alex Goldfarb and Marina Litvinenko. Death of a Dissident: The Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and the Return of the KGB, The Free Press (2007) ISBN 1-416-55165-4
  4. ^ Category: Radiation Basics
  5. ^ Who Killed Litvinenko? - Russia

[edit] Books

Nikolai Evgenievich Khokhlov. In the name of conscience . Translated by Emily Kingsbery. New York : David McKay, 1959. In the name of conscience (Russian)

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[edit] Interviews (Russian)

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[edit] See also

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