Vogelson, Samuel

Samuel Vogelson was born in 1902 in Warsaw. He graduated from Warsaw University, and later studied in Paris and Berlin. For four years he was a senior assistant at the Faculty of Mathematics. In his scientific work he issued 40 publications in the field of mathematics, statistics and demography. He was deputy head of the population statistics department at the Central Statistical Office. From his youth, he expressed leftist sympathies, however, he was denied the opportunity to join the Polish Communist Party, assuring that his advantages would be used as an informant for the Control Intelligence - Soviet military intelligence.

Thanks to his professional abilities, he was instructed to provide information on the state of the Polish economy. Subsequently, he becomes a resident of Soviet intelligence and forms his own network of agents, among whom were: Alfred Yaroshevich and Vladimir Lekhovich, who were members of the Polish intelligence and counterintelligence service, junior lieutenant Stanislav Pavel Nenaltovsky from the Independent Department of the Information Corps in Warsaw and Heinrich Buzhinsky. During this period, he applies for membership in the Communist Party of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, and, despite the positive results of the examination of the application for legitimacy, he was refused due to intelligence and related conspiracy.

When the Second World War began, Vogelson fled from Soviet territory and settled in Bialystok, where in 1939 he made contact with the NKVD. Vogelson recalled party membership, but was considered non-partisan. Despite significant merits, it was not determined by a high position.

In December 1939 he was accepted as an economist in municipal offices, where he became responsible for planning the development of the urban economy in Bialystok. This position was overrated and devoid of real value. Vogelson complained that there was no work to be done. In 1940, Vogelson provided the Secretary of the Bialystok Region with a resume and an application for permission to travel to Moscow to continue his career. Nothing was said about the collaboration with intelligence in the resume. The appeal was returned to Minsk - the Commissioner of Education of the Byelorussian SSR believed that Vogelson was forbidden to work in higher education.

The cold attitude of the party authorities towards Vogelson arose as a result of the “cleansing” of the special services in 1938-1939, as well as the liquidation of the Communist Party of Poland. In the “purification” many of his immediate superiors and employees of Soviet intelligence perished, and Vogelson himself was isolated from his colleagues. It was believed that it is unreliable due to a long stay outside the USSR.

The further fate of Vogelson is unknown. Perhaps he died during the Second World War, having failed to get out of Bialystok.

• "The mathematical theory of the population" (1932)
• "Measures of concentration and their application" (1933)
• “On the Interpretation and Application of Correlation Measures” (1934)
• "A study of the demography of Polesie and Volhynia" (1938)

• Cheslav Domansky "Deserved extras for science"
• Andrzej Poczobut “The Life of the Soviet Agent”