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Intelligence Reports and

Stalin’s Reaction

talin had three separate independent espionage services: the First Directorate of the
NKGB; the Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff (in 1942 it became Chief
SDirectorate); and Stalin’s personal intelligence service, concealed under the name
“Special Section of the Central Committee of the Communist Party.”
e total power of these agencies was colossal. Sufficient information is available about
the penetration into leading German military and political organs by Stalin’s espionage ser-
vices. A group under the code name “Viking” worked in the staff of the OKW (Supreme
Command of the Armed Forces); seven high-ranking German officers and generals supplied
information straight from Hitler’s cabinet to Stalin’s agents. In Germany, the Soviet military
intelligence managed to gain access to the most secret information from the highest levels of
power.
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Several networks of agents simultaneously worked for Stalin, completely independent
of each other. e lies of one were immediately exposed by information provided by the
others. A group under the code name “Alta” worked in the German embassy in Moscow. Its
members included Gerhard Kegel and Else Stoebe. e entire embassy was wrapped up in
the web of Stalin’s espionage. is group of agents “was supplemented by a man who had, in
essence, unrestricted access to all [the] state secrets of Germany.” e German embassy in
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Moscow had ties to Goering’s staff, to the science and technology organs of the ird Reich,
and of course to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “Among these agents, there was even one of
the closest associates of the foreign affairs minister, Ribbentrop. He was recruited in Poland to
work for the British and in his convictions he was an adamant enemy of the Soviet Union.” 3
is agent, like many others, thought he was working against Stalin, when in reality he was
working for him.
We must remember the friend of Goering’s wife, the first-rate Nazi movie star Olga
Tschechowa. is woman dazzled Berlin with her blinding beauty and her cruelty, which
was inexplicable, unusual, and unseen even for that time. In 1936, on Hitler’s orders, Olga
Tschechowa was awarded the title People’s Actress of Germany. She was often seen next to

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