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keywords:
espionage – Molotov – Roosevelt
–Churchill –
The
Rosenberg couple– Soviet atomic bomb – Cuban Missile Crisis
– John Scully - J. F. Kennedy – Lenin –
secret
services – CIA – Fuchs.
synthesis:
factory worker origins - factory school – studies Communication
Engineering. Recluted by the secret service (NKVD) – training –
espionage techniques – meeting with Molotov, Foregin Minister, in the
USA. - Anti-Soviet Propaganda – political and military espionage–
struggle against nazism – coded communication
between Moscow
and
New York
- Roosevelt – Churchill – collaboration with the Rosenberg couple,
who are
Feklissov's agent but unknowledgeable of the Los Alamos affair that will
lead them to the electric chair – CIA supplies materials to the USSR –
Soviet atomic bomb, Feklissov maintains relationships with scientist
Fuchs that supplies information for the building of the atomic bomb –
Rosenberg betrayed by Greenglass – death sentence of the Rosenberg
couple: accusations of nuclear espionage – Fuchs sentenced
to 14 years– after the end of the USSR Feklissov visits the Rosenberg's
tomb in the USA – Soviets
missed a chance to
protest
missed by the for the fate of
the Rosenbergs. - Death of J. F. Kennedy:
hypothesis of a Soviet hit
man– Kennedy's last goal: petroleum taxation – Feklissov's central role on the Cuban Missile Crisis - relationship with
John Scully, journalist at ABC:
he was the only link for the relatioship between
Kennedy and Khrushchev in the crucial moment of the Crisis -
Khrushchev's mistakes – Lenin's ideology.
subject biography:
Born on April 9th, 1914. Studies Communication Engineering.
He gets a degree on radiophonics. In 1939
he gets called to be enlisted at
the NKVD (Secret Service) and gets sent to the espionage school, where
he spends one year studying the language, the culture and the history of
the UK and the USA, then
hw takes a course on the history of the
Communist party
and the practical subjects: how to get away from a
follower, how to recruit new agents and how to use radiotransmmitters
for coded messages. In 1940
Feklissov enters the fifth department of the NKVD
in the
American section.
On January of 1941,
he leaves to the USA as an
employee of the Soviet Consulate in New York. Three times
he is sent abroad for soviet
services (first NKVD, then KGB - the National Security Committee): from
1941 to 1946 in the USA, from 1947 to 1950 in England and
from 1960 to 1964 again in the United States. In 1974 retires from
sevice with a Colonel ranking and
stays in charge as the Head of
the Section, but continues to give counseling to the SVR (Foreign
Espionage Service) up
until 1986. In
1999 he publishes, in French, a
book called
"Confession
d'un agent soviétique",
in which he recollects the relationship with the
Rosenbergs; the
relationship
with the
scientist
Fuchs
that
supplies information for building the bomb;
the period of the Cuban Missile Crisis in
1962
in which
Feklissov
becomes
an intermediary between
Khrushchev
and
Kennedy
for the
exchange of messages between the Soviet Embassy and the USA in 1959.
After the end of the USSR,
during a trip to the USA,
he
reveals that the Rosenbergs, sentenced to death for Nuclear Espionage,
were
his agents and had nothing to do with the nuclear projects at Los
Alamos.
John Le Carré
was
inspired by
Feklissov
for
the
novel
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. |
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