AGENTURA: Soviet Informants' Networks & the Ukrainian Underground in Galicia, 1944-48
AGENTURA: Soviet Informants' Networks & the Ukrainian Underground in Galicia, 1944-48
Author(s): Jeffrey BurdsSubject(s): Political history, Government/Political systems, International relations/trade, Security and defense, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949)
Published by: SAGE Publications Ltd
Keywords: Soviet Union; informants' networks; Ukrainian underground in Galicia; People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs; Sluzhba bespeky; Intelligence agency; counterintelligence;
Summary/Abstract: October 29, 1945. Stanislav oblast, in the Carpathian mountains. West Ukraine. Acting on a tip from local sources, a heavily armed People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD) force raided the Kolomiya regional headquarters of the Sluzhba bespeky (SB), the counterintelligence unit of the Ukrainian nationalist underground. In the ensuing firefight, NKVD spetsgruppy (black-operations units or "blackops") killed the regional chief of rebel counterintelligence, known only by his pseudonym Iaroslav. [...]
Journal: East European Politics and Societies
- Issue Year: 11/1997
- Issue No: 01
- Page Range: 89-130
- Page Count: 42
- Language: English
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