Eugene Ilyich Levin ( November 7, 1913 - not earlier than 1998 [1] ) - Soviet intelligence officer, acting under the guise of a scientist (specialist in rolling equipment); KGB colonel. Laureate of the Lenin Prize .
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Biography
In 1936 he graduated from MVTU . In 1935-1937 he worked in the laboratory of rental and rolling machinery at MVTU, in 1937-1941 - in the design bureau of the People's Commissariat for Defense Industry of the USSR . [one]
Since 1941, he served in the NKVD, was engaged in scientific and technical operations. In 1945-1949, he was a research associate at the VNIIIP Metallurgical Engineering (operational cover). [2]
In 1950-1957, on a business trip to the GDR; in 1953 - Deputy Commissioner of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs in Germany [2] , then his post was replaced by the deputy head of the scientific and technical section of the Soviet trade delegation in East Berlin.
Since 1957 - in the State Scientific and Technical Committee of the USSR (deputy head of the SCST department, Germain Gvishiani , head of the laboratory). He participated in the creation of a new technology for rental. [3]
In the early 1960s, the “boss” of Oleg Penkovsky , who described Levin like this: “Yevgeny Ilyich Levin, who works on our committee, is a KGB officer and deputy Gvishiani, is a drunkard and a libertine” [3] .
Rewards
- Lenin Prize (1964) - for the creation and implementation of new technology and a complex of mills for rolling round periodic profiles .
Sources
- TSB Yearbook, 1965
- LEVIN Evgeny Ilyich
- Jewish military encyclopedia. Evreĭskiĭ sovet Ukrainy, 2007 - Total pages: 703 [4]
- Battlefield Berlin: CIA versus KGB in the Cold War. David E. Murphy, Sergey A. Kondrashev, Gheorghe Bailia. TERRA, 2000 - Total pages: 540
- The Spy Who Saved the World: How the Soviet Colonel Changed the Course of the Cold War, Volume 1. Yerrold L. Shester, Peter Deryabin “Mezhdunarodnye otnoshenii︠a︡”, 1993
Notes
- ↑ Levin Evgeny Ilyich . Center for genealogical research. Date of treatment August 10, 2015.
- ↑ Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Germany . Website of V. Mzareulov. Date of treatment August 10, 2015.
- ↑ Schecter JL, Deriabin PS The spy who saved he world. - New York: Scribners, 1992.