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  • Georges Agabekov
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  • Georges Agabekov (original family name Arutyunov; , transliteration Grigoriĭ Sergeevich Agabekov) (1896–1937) was a Soviet Red Army soldier, Chekist, OGPU agent, and Chief of OGPU Eastern Section (1928–1929). He was the first senior OGPU officer to defect to the West (1930), motivated presumably by his amorous infatuation with an English language teacher in Constantinople; his revelatory books led to massive arrests of Soviet intelligence assets across the Near East and Central Asia.
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Birth Date
  • 1896
death place
  • Pyrenees Mountains
Organization
Name
  • Georges S. Agabekov
Ethnicity
  • Armenian
Education
  • Tashkent Praporshchik
Years Active
  • 1914
Employer
  • Comintern
Birth Place
death date
  • 1937
Notable Works
  • OGPU
Citizenship
  • Russian
Box Width
  • 200
Occupation
  • soldier, spy
Death Cause
  • assassination
Known For
  • espionage
Birth name
  • Grigoriĭ Sergeevich Agabekov
Nationality
  • Russian
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  • Georges Agabekov (original family name Arutyunov; , transliteration Grigoriĭ Sergeevich Agabekov) (1896–1937) was a Soviet Red Army soldier, Chekist, OGPU agent, and Chief of OGPU Eastern Section (1928–1929). He was the first senior OGPU officer to defect to the West (1930), motivated presumably by his amorous infatuation with an English language teacher in Constantinople; his revelatory books led to massive arrests of Soviet intelligence assets across the Near East and Central Asia.