Vladimir Pavlov

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Vitalius Grigorevich Pavlov (30 September, 1914 - 11 April, 2005) also known as Vitaly Pavlov and while working in Canada as Vladimir Pavlov. Pavlov was born in Barnaul city.

From 1933 through 1937 he studied in the Siberian Automobile Highway Institute in Omsk. After graduating he joined the organs of national security.

In 1938 he it finished the school of special instruction for the NKVD and was assigned to the work in external or foreign reconnaissance.

In 50 years of service in external reconnaissance he traveled extensively and spent many years in Canada, Austria and Poland. He worked from the illegal apparatus in a number of West Europe countries. Pavlov spoke English, French, German and Polish.

Pavlov occupied the important leading posts in the central apparatus as deputy chief of Soviet external reconnaissance.

From 1971 through 1973 he was the chief of the Red Banner Institute of the KGB of the USSR now known as the Academy of External Reconnaissance (or Academy of Foreign Intelligence), under Yuri Andropov. After 1984 Pavlov worked as senior consultant of one of the administrations of external reconnaissance. In 1987 he retired.

Lieutenant General Pavlov was awarded she Orders of Lenin, October Revolution, Red Banner, and many others. pavlov author of a number of the books on the history of external reconnaissance and memoirs.

References

• Document No. 10 in Robert Louis Benson and Michael Warner, eds., Venona: Soviet Espionage and the American Response, 1939-1957 (Washington, DC: National Security Agency/Central Intelligence Agency, 1996). [1][2]
• Retrieved from "http://www.conservapedia.com/Vassili_D._Mironov"

• Russian Foreign Intelligence Service