History 16/03/20 Dmitry Bystroletov: what repressed a brilliant Soviet spy
Among the intelligence agencies of the major powers of the planet, representatives of local security services is one of the leading places in the world. The most difficult but at the same time most fruitful of steel 1920 -1930 years, code intelligence Soviet Russia, only rose to his feet. Among the geniuses of the intelligence of the time can be noted Dmitry Bystroletova, who later became a true legend of the Soviet secret police.
the Aristocrat intelligence
Among the illegal scouts working abroad in the first decades of the twentieth century, Dmitry Bystroletova considered a real aristocrat. Supposedly he was the illegitimate son of count Alexander Tolstoy, brother of the famous writer.
In his youth, failed Earl lived in St. Petersburg and received an excellent education. After the revolution, Dmitry Bystroletov was in exile, where he stayed to the side as the white emigres, and the emissaries of Soviet Russia.
However, in 1923 the young man entered the University of Prague, he received a Soviet passport and joined the public organization “Union of students – citizens of the USSR”. Soon active student noticed the resident of the foreign Department of the OGPU in Prague.
Dmitry easily went on contact, readily supplying information on technical and economic intelligence. In April 1925 as a delegate of all-Union conference of proletarian students Dmitry visited Moscow, where he met one of the founders of Soviet intelligence Artuzov. Potential scout and his future boss immediately liked each other. Moreover, Dmitry knew perfectly several languages and could easily play the hero-lover, getting interested in the Soviet secret service information.
Prague: the practice of novice scout
in the Spring of 1927, Dmitry bystroletov received from the Center the first pon a truly serious task. He was commissioned to recruit an employee of the German Embassy in Prague, worked in a simple Stoker. Despite his working profession this man was very valuable, as is regularly involved German diplomats for the burning of confidential documents. Dmitri pretended to be having German roots immigrant from the Baltic States, and soon became the Stoker’s closest friend.
One day during a feast the Stoker complained to his new friend on the hard work for the destruction of secret documents that disgusting burn. In response to Dmitry have offered to purchase the documents for burning, generously paying for them. After a few days in a scout, there was a whole stack of documents with slightly charred edges. The authorities in Moscow was delighted. In the next job, a handsome illegal immigrant had to obtain the ciphers of the French Ministry of foreign Affairs.
the Task is practically not feasible. But not for Russian spy. Dmitry Bystroletov elegantly seduced by 29-year-old Secretary from the French Embassy in Czechoslovakia. The case went to the wedding. However, before going to the registry office, the groom put the loving Frenchwoman condition. As mutual trust and love she had at least a couple of hours to get him from the Embassy to the code book. The girl agreed. However, get what you want, to walk down the aisle Dmitry, of course, he changed his mind.
Hard work
it is Noteworthy that when the scout himself seriously fell in love with a Czech woman named Milena, he had to recruit his bride and then telling her that it as waiting for her “fake romances” for Moscow necessary information.
the Woman agreed, but the scandal in this regard between the spouses appeared more than once. Especially Dmitri was jealous the wife of the Colonel of the General staff of Italy, which Milena had by way of seduction to extract the ciphers of the Italian General staff.
In the 1930s, Dmitri and his wife moved to Berlin, where male headed guppu agents on the hunt for the secrets of other countries. Especially significant was the operation, during which Dmitry, posing as a Hungarian count, coaxed information from loved drinking and carousing of a cryptographer for the British foreign Ministry. Moreover, to the source of information suddenly dried up, the scout seduced the wife of a British cryptographer, continuing to get information, even when communication with the woman’s husband interrupted.
Over the years, a group of illegal spies under the leadership Bystroletova provided the Center ciphers the ministries of foreign Affairs of Austria, Switzerland, Finland, Turkey and even controlled the personal correspondence of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.
In 1937, Dmitry Bystroletov on its own initiative, rashly returned to the USSR, to get a little rest from their intelligence activities and the constant change of faces. In 1938 Bystroletova arrested, charged with having ties with British intelligence. To freedom a former scout who had done so much for his country, was released only in 1954. The remaining years of his life he devoted to literary work.
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