🧵Who were the most significant Soviet intel officers during WWII?
In his top secret overview in 1971, #KGB General Semyon Tsvigun, Yuri Andropov's principal deputy, mentioned two officers codenamed YUNG & MAKS.
Now we know YUNG was Iskhak Akhmerov & MAKS was Iosif Grigulevich.
Tsvigun wrote: "In the history of our intel service, glorious deeds were accomplished by the illegal agent networks of YUNG which, in their time, sent to the Center more than 2,500 documents taken directly from the top-ranking U.S. govt. institutions [and] by those of MAKS which
by the means of numerous acts of sabotage almost completely paralyzed the activities of Germany regarding the export of nitrate from Chile used as the main ingredient for the production of explosives..."
Filip Kovacevic
@ChekistMonitor
Top expert on #KGB (operations, archives, spy fiction). Contributor @CWIHP, @talk_spy. PhD. 20+ years university teaching in Russia/Balkans/US. Now at @usfca.
