List of Famous people with last name Sudoplatov

Pavel Sudoplatov

First Name Pavel

Last Name Sudoplatov

Born on July 7, 1907

Died on September 26, 1996 (aged 89)

Born in Ukraine, Zaporizhzhia Oblast

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Lieutenant General Pavel Anatolyevich Sudoplatov was a member of the intelligence services of the Soviet Union who rose to the rank of lieutenant general. He became involved in several famous episodes, including the assassination of Leon Trotsky in 1940, the Soviet espionage program which obtained information about the atomic bomb from the Manhattan Project, and Operation Scherhorn, a Soviet deception operation against the Germans in 1944. His autobiography, Special Tasks, published in 1994, made him well known outside the USSR, and provided a detailed look at Soviet intelligence and Soviet internal politics during his years at the top.

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