Suchergebnisse

The RFE as a frontier melting pot, 1863-1917 -- Intervention, 1918-1922 -- Korean korenizatsiia and its socialist construction -- Koreans becoming a Soviet people, 1923-1930 -- Security concerns trumping korenizatsiia, 1931-1937 -- The Korean deportation and life in Central Asia, 1937-early 1940s -- Voices in the field

Abstract: This study is about the East Asians in Soviet intelligence (EASI) in the Cheka and other incarnations of the Soviet political police to 1945. It will investigate and analyze the "naturals," one variant of the Soviet illegal, who were sent on intelligence operations (called Maki Mirage) in the Far East from 1920 to 1945. This paper will also explain why the Foreign Department (INO) expanded and pivoted to the use of two sets of agents—"Russians" and East Asians—in Manchuria. Then, we will examine five outstanding "naturals" in the INO for overseas missions. Finally, this study connects the significance of the INO and EASI missions in regards to Stalinism and Soviet socialism. This is the sixth article in the series on East Asians in Soviet intelligence.