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Aleksandr Korotkov

Russian intelligence operative (1909-1961) · Russia · On the map · Died at 51

Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Korotkov was a Soviet intelligence officer and operative with the rank of major general. He became chief of foreign reconnaissance in the Soviet occupation zone in Germany in 1947 and chief of the KGB while he was stationed in East Germany in 1957.

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Honorary Worker of the VChK-GPU (XV)1938
Order of the Red Banner
Order of Lenin
Order of the Red Star
Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class
Medal "For the Defence of Moscow"
Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Jubilee Medal "30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy"
Jubilee Medal "40 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow"
Honorary Officer of the State Security
Order of the Partisan Star
Czechoslovak War Cross 1939-1945
Patriotic Order of Merit
Honorary worker of the NKVD

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Korotkov was most notable as the intelligence officer who recruited Arvid Harnack in September 1940 and Harro Schulze-Boysen later in Berlin during the Nazi regime, effectively changing a resistance organisation who fought against Hitler into the espionage organisation known as the Red Orchestra. Korotkov was an associate of Ivan Serov.

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Russia
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Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1909 to 1961 · aged 51

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