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Zarubin served with the [[Russian history, 1892-1920#Russia at war.2C 1914-16|Russian Imperial Army]] on the [[Western Front]] during [[World War I]] from 1914. For agitation against the war Zarubin served in a penal battalion. Zarubin and was wounded in March 1917. He served in the [[Red Army]] and fought in the [[Russian Civil War]] from 1918-1920.
Zarubin served with the [[Russian history, 1892-1920#Russia at war.2C 1914-16|Russian Imperial Army]] on the [[Western Front]] during [[World War I]] from 1914. For agitation against the war Zarubin served in a penal battalion. Zarubin and was wounded in March 1917. He served in the [[Red Army]] and fought in the [[Russian Civil War]] from 1918-1920.
==External reconnaissance==
He joined the ''[[Cheka]]'' in 1920 and served in its internal security section. In 1923 he was appointed as the chief of economic division [[OGPU]] in Vladivostok and organized the fight with the smuggling of narcotics and weapons from Europe to China. In 1925 he transferred to foreign intelligence. In 23 years of service, 13 years were on the ''Illegal'' work in different countries.
He joined the ''[[Cheka]]'' in 1920 and served in its internal security section. In 1923 he was appointed as the chief of economic division [[OGPU]] in Vladivostok and organized the fight with the smuggling of narcotics and weapons from Europe to China. In 1925 he transferred to foreign intelligence. In 23 years of service, 13 years were on the ''Illegal'' work in different countries.
In the spring of 1941 he undertook an assignment in China in 1941 and is credited with obtaining information from a high-ranking German adviser to [[Chiang Kai-shek]] about Hitler's plans to attack the USSR in mid-1941.
In the spring of 1941 he undertook an assignment in China in 1941 and is credited with obtaining information from a high-ranking German adviser to [[Chiang Kai-shek]] about Hitler's plans to attack the USSR in mid-1941.
==North American Rezident==
Zarubin was appointed ecame the chief of the KGB legal Rezidentura in the United States in the fall of 1941. On 12 October,1941, just as the Germans were on the outskirts of Moscow, Zarubin was personally directed by [[Josef Stalin]] to his primary task: to discover if the United States would attempt to arrange for separate peace with Germany and not finish the war.
Zarubin was appointed ecame the chief of the KGB legal Rezidentura in the United States in the fall of 1941. On 12 October,1941, just as the Germans were on the outskirts of Moscow, Zarubin was personally directed by [[Josef Stalin]] to his primary task: to discover if the United States would attempt to arrange for separate peace with Germany and not finish the war.
* No author [probably William K. Harvey, CIA], Memorandum for the File, "COMRAP," 6 February 1948, Central Intelligence Agency, Vassili M. Zarubin file. [https://www.cia.gov/csi/books/venona/part1.htm]
* No author [probably William K. Harvey, CIA], Memorandum for the File, "COMRAP," 6 February 1948, Central Intelligence Agency, Vassili M. Zarubin file. [https://www.cia.gov/csi/books/venona/part1.htm]
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[[Category:KGB|Zurubin, Vasily]]
[[Category:KGB|Zurubin, Vasily]]