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Pavel Anatolyevich Sudoplatov (Павел Анатольевич Судоплатов; 1907-1996) was a Soviet Lieutenant General.Sudoplatov was born in Melitopol (modern Ukraine). At age 12, he served in the Red Army and later joined the K.G.B. He was put in charge of many high-profile assassinations, including Leon Trotsky in Mexico City in 1940.

Lieut. Gen. Pavel A. Sudoplatov, a legendary Soviet spymaster who plotted and carried out assassinations with cold-blooded efficiency and claimed to have engineered the theft of atomic secrets...

Pavel Sudoplatov, 89, the Soviet spymaster who claimed to have engineered the stealing of the atomic bomb secrets from the United States and directed the 1940 assassination of Leon Trotsky, died...

Pavel Sudoplatov (1907 – 1996) was perhaps the most important figure in Soviet intelligence during Stalin’s era: he plotted Trotsky’s assassination, and worked hard to defeat Hitler. After...

Special Tasks: The Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness—A Soviet Spymaster is the autobiography of Pavel Sudoplatov, who was a member of the intelligence services of the Soviet Union who rose to the rank of lieutenant general. [1] When it was published in 1994, it caused a considerable uproar for a number of reasons.

Pavel Anatolyevich Sudoplatov [1][2][3] was a member of the intelligence services of the Soviet Union; over a career spanning 34 years, he would ultimately attain the rank of lieutenant general in the Soviet Armed Forces.[4]

By Pavel Sudoplatov and Anatoli Sudoplatov, with Jerrold L. Sch Little, Brown, 1994, 509 pp. Reviewed by Robert Legvold July/August 1994 Published on July 1, 1994 "My Administration for Special Tasks," Sudoplatov begins, "was responsible for sabotage, kidnapping and assassination of our enemies beyond the country's borders."

In Defense of Gen. Sudoplatov's Story. By Jerrold L. Schecter. May 2, 1994. In Moscow two years ago we met the Soviet spy master whose agents stole America's atomic secrets 50 years ago, and he ...