Sudoplatov, Pavel Anatolyevich

▪ 1997

      Soviet security and intelligence agent who was responsible for political assassinations, including that of Leon Trotsky; Sudoplatov was imprisoned for 15 years and made the claim in his autobiography that the Soviet Union obtained atomic secrets with the aid of Manhattan Project scientists (b. 1907—d. Sept. 24, 1996).

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