Pavel Sudoplatov
NKVD spymaster; oversaw Laboratory X
Timeline - Sudoplatov in the record
4 events from the Ivanov's Ghost archive.
Pavel Sudoplatov is born in Melitopol and rises through the security organs.
Sudoplatov's 'special tasks' unit is credited with the assassination of Trotsky, struck down on 20 August 1940 and dead the next day; his service file names only the Konovalets killing of 1938 and the Skoblin case of 1937.
With Beria's fall, Sudoplatov is arrested on 21 August 1953. He is held five years before the Supreme Court's military collegium sentences him on 12 September 1958 to fifteen years; he is released on 21 August 1968.
In old age Sudoplatov publishes his memoir, the richest and least reliable source on the poison laboratory.
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