# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/iosif-grigulevich
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:28:11.168Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/iosif-grigulevich"
name: "Iosif Grigulevich"
slug: "iosif-grigulevich"
description: "Iosif Romualdovich Grigulevich was a Soviet secret police (NKVD) operative active between 1937 and 1953, when he played a role in assassination plots against Communist and Bolshevik individuals who were not loyal to Joseph Stalin. This included the murders of claimed and actual Trotskyists during the Spanish Civil War, most notably Andreu Nin, and an initial, unsuccessful assassination attempt against Leon Trotsky in Mexico City. Under an assumed identity as Teodoro B. Castro, a wealthy Costa Rican expatriate living in Rome, Grigulevich served as the ambassador of the Republic of Costa Rica to both Italy and Yugoslavia (1952–1954). He was tasked by the NKVD with the assassination of Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito, but the mission was aborted following Stalin's death in 1953."
tagline: "Soviet spy and Costa Rican diplomat (1913–1988)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Iosif_Grigulevich_2025_stamp_of_Russia.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1913-05-05"
deathDate: "1988-06-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.45
  momentum:             0.5182926829268292
  historical:           12.63453466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Григулевич Иосиф"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Josef Romualdowitsch Grigulewitsch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iosif_Grigulevich"
    title: "Iosif Grigulevich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%C3%B3sif_Grigul%C3%A9vich"
    title: "Iósif Grigulévich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iosif_Grigulevit%C5%A1"
    title: "Iosif Grigulevitš"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iossif_Grigoulevitch"
    title: "Iossif Grigoulevitch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iosif_Grigulevi%C4%8D"
    title: "Iosif Grigulevič"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josifas_Grigulevi%C4%8Dius"
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    title: "Григулевич, Иосиф Ромуальдович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Иосиф Григулевич"
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    title: "Григулевич Йосип Ромуальдович"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump