![]() ![]() They were the best recruiters and controllers the Russian Intelligence Service ever had. They worked undercover, often at great personal risk, and traveled throughout the world in search of potential recruits. (4) Richard Sorge during the First World WarĪs Peter Wright, the author of Spycatcher (1987), who worked for British intelligence, pointed out: "They were Trotskyist Communists who believed in international Communism and the Comintern. Reiss and Krivitsky refused to return and were murdered abroad. Deutsch, Maly, Berzin, Artuzov, Vinogradov, Gutzeit, Bazarov and Antonov-Ovseenko were all executed. By the summer of 1937, Stalin became convinced that these agents were conspiring against him and over forty of them serving abroad were summoned back to the Soviet Union. This group included Arnold Deutsch, Walter Krivitsky, Theodore Maly, Ignace Reiss, Leopard Trepper, Alexander Orlov, Artur Artuzov, Yan Berzin, Boris Vinogradov, Peter Gutzeit, Boris Bazarov, Dmitri Bystrolyotov and Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko. This is why they were willing to work undercover in the countries hostile to the Soviet Union in an effort to ferment revolution. Why then did Stalin ignore the information he was receiving from Sorge and other agents working for the Soviets? Sorge was a member of a group of Soviet agents that became known as the "Great Illegals" who agreed with Leon Trotsky on the subject of world revolution. How many thousands and millions of lives would have been saved had the information from Richard Sorge and others not been sealed up in a safe! " (3) Richard Sorge and the Great Illegals He said 150 divisions were being concentrated at the borders of the U.S.S.R., supplied a general scheme of the military operations and in some reports, at first by one day off but later exactly, named the date of the attack, June 22. In April, 1941, Richard Sorge supplied valuable information about the preparation of a Hitlerite attack on the Soviet Union. The struggle against fascism, against a second world war became the purpose of Sorge's life. According to Viktor Mayevsky: "Richard Sorge is a man whose name will become the symbol of devotion to the great cause of the fight for peace, the symbol of courage and heroism. Sorge was clearly a great spy but unfortunately, Joseph Stalin decided to ignore the information he provided. (1) Christopher Andrew, the official historian of MI5, takes a similar view and has called him "among the greatest spies of the century." (2) Ian Fleming, a British intelligence officer during the Second World War, described Richard Sorge as “the most formidable spy in history.” Fleming clearly had Sorge in mind when he created James Bond. ![]() Spartacus Blog Richard Sorge: The Greatest Spy of the 20th Century? Sections
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