Georges Agabekov
Male, Deceased Person
1896 – 1937
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Who was Georges Agabekov?
Georges Agabekov was a Soviet Red Army soldier, Chekist, OGPU agent, and Chief of OGPU Eastern Section. He was the first senior OGPU officer to defect to the West, motivated presumably by his amorous infatuation with an English language teacher in Constantinople; his revelatory books led to massive arrests of Soviet intelligence assets across the Near East and Central Asia.
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