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Robert Soblen
Soviet spy on the United States and Stalinist agent provocateur
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- Momentum6.4
- Wikipedia740
Lived 1900–1962, aged 62United States
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Updated 2026-06-20
Robert Soblen was a prominent member, with his brother, of the OGPU (KGB) which monitored and betrayed Leon Trotsky in Paris especially. Refer to Gordievski & Christopher Andrew: History of the KGB in the 1930s p119. He moved to the United States in 1941 with his brother Jack Soble, and was arrested in 1960 as a Soviet spy. Convicted and sentenced to life in prison, he fled the United States while on bail and sought asylum first in Israel, then in Britain. He committed suicide by overdosing on barbiturates when his last appeal for asylum in Britain was denied.
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Rising45.7
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Momentum6.4
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Source confidence35.0
Completeness35.0
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- Robert SoblenLow confidencewikipedia · fr.wikipedia.org
- Roman WellLow confidencewikipedia · de.wikipedia.org
- Robert SoblenLow confidencewikipedia · en.wikipedia.org