Walter Krivitsky
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Walter G. Krivitsky (né Samuel Ginsberg) was a Colonel (Polkovnik) in the Russian/Soviet Secret Services named Cheka and NKVD. He was head of the operations in Western Europe. He was deeply disturbed by Stalin's purges but his defection to the West (1937) was prompted by the slaughter of his colleague and friend Ignace Reiss. He defected just before the head of the White Russians in Paris, General Yevguenyi K. de Miller was abducted, but was (so his memoirs 'I was Stalin's agent') involved in the preparations. Miller's kidnapping by Soviet agents caused Gypsy singer Nadezhda V. Plevitskaya, to end up in a French prison. According to Krivitsky's memoirs, Plevitskaya's husband General N.V. Skoblin was the traitor who informed Stalin about the White Russians in Paris. Krivitsky was the most senior NKVD agent to defect to the West in 1937.
He was found dead in the Bellevue Hotel in Washington D.C., 10 February 1941.