Hunting for Interwar European Diplomacy Secrets: Tradecraft of Dmitry Bystrolyotov

References

• Primakov , E. , ed. 2001 . Vneshniia razvedka Rosssii Vol. 3 , Moscow : OLMA Press . For a short description of Bystrolyotov's career, see A. Kolpakidi and D. Prokhorov, (Foreign Intelligence of Russia) 178–80; ed., Ocherki istorii rossiiskoi razvedki (Essays on the History of Russian Foreign Intelligence), vol. (Moscow: Mezhdunarodnye otnosheniia, 1996), 233–46; John Costello and Oleg Tsarev, Deadly Illusions (New York: Crown, 1993), 63–85
   Google Scholar
• 1999 . The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB Vol. 2 , 44 New York : Basic Books . In their book Christopher Andrew and Vassili Mitrokhin cite Bystrolyotov's claim that his father was a noted Soviet writer Alexey Tolstoy (p.). In his memoirs [Pir bessmertrnykh (Feast of the Immortals) (Moscow, 1993), Vol., 238], Bystrolyotov identifies his father as a minor official of the Heraldry Department of the Ruling Senate, Count Alexander Nikolaevich Tolstoy. No documents proving his paternity have survived
   Google Scholar
• 11 September 1973 . Bystrolyotov disclosed the fact of his recruitment by the Cheka during a personal meeting with this researcher on
   Google Scholar
• Bystrolyotov , D. 1998 . Puteshetstvie na krai nochi Moscow : Sovremennik . See in (Travel to the Edge of the Night) 324–25. On the identity of LAROCHE, see Andrew and Mitrokhin, The Sword and the Shield, 578 (n.12). For Samsonov's short biography, see Bystrolyotov, Travel to the Edge of the Night, 585
   Google Scholar
• Duff , William . 1999 . A Time for Spies: Theodore Stephanovich Mally and the Era of the Great Illegals Nashville and London : Vanderbilt University Press . See 60
   Google Scholar
• The Sword and the Shield Andrew and Mitrokhin mistakenly identify the year of his death as 1970; see Andrew and Mitrokhin, 459 (n. 63)
   Google Scholar
• 1968 . Rukopis' Gansa Vol. 2 , Bystrolyotov gives a minute description of the following sequence of his action in his (Hans' Manuscript), a declassified portion of his KGB file, archival #9529, vol., #154/935, Dec. 12, a memo written for the First Department of the KGB, October 28, 1968 (in possession of this researcher), as well as in his memoirs. Parts of the memo are extensively quoted in Primakov, History of Russian Foreign Intelligence, 239–41. In a digest form, it appears in Andrew and Mitrokhin, The Sword and the Shield, 44–45
   Google Scholar
• 1930 . Revelations of a Soviet Diplomat London : Williams & Noragte . Abridged English translation of the book originally published in Russian (Paris, appeared as Gregori Bessedovsky, (1931
   Google Scholar
• History of Russian Foreign Intelligence Primakov erroneously identifies the Soviet Embassy as located in Switzerland, not in France 240)
   Google Scholar
• The Sword and the Shield On identity of Voinovich, see Andrew and Mitrokhin, 578–79 (n. 18 & 19)
   Google Scholar
• Travel to the End of the Night For a short description of these agents' background, see Bystrolyotov, 583. See also Duff, A Time for Spies, 82; Kolpakidi and Prokhorov, Foreign Intelligence, 454–55
   Google Scholar
• 2003 . A Death in Washington: Walter G. Krivitsky and the Stalin Terror New York : Enigma . On Pieck's background and activities, see Gary Kern, 233–36; Andrew and Mitrokhin, The Sword and the Shield, 49; Kolpakidi and Prohkorov, Foreign Intelligence, 471
   Google Scholar
• The Sword and the Shield On ROSSI's identity, see Andrew and Mitrokhin, 44
   Google Scholar
• Shchedrost' serdtsa This part of the operation is described in minute details, including dialogues, in a typescript of an unpublished screenplay: Bystrolyotov, (Generosity of the Heart), v. 3, 270–81 (personal archive)
   Google Scholar
• History of Russian Foreign Intelligence For description of this operation, see “Hans' Manuscript”; it is also intensely quoted in Primakov, 237–38
   Google Scholar
• Ibid., 240–41
   Google Scholar
• 1976 . V staroi Afrike (Moscow : Sovetskaia Rossiia . Bystrolyotov described this travel in his book, (In Old Africa)
   Google Scholar