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Personal Details
- Russian Name
- Ефим Самойлович Беркович
- Other Names
- Aviliov, Kachalov
- Birth Date
- 1914
- Defection Date
- 1941
Yefim Samoilovich Berkovich
Ефим Самойлович Беркович
Also known as: Aviliov, Kachalov
Service Details
Biography
Berkovich was a former lieutenant of state security and investigator in the OO NKVD unit of the 6th Army.[i] The date and circumstances of his capture are not available; however, he was later listed as an intelligence tradecraft instructor in the Russian Liberation Army (ROA) Warsaw Intelligence School.[ii] He used the pseudonyms Avilov and Kachalov.
[i] List of members of the Soviet 6th Army, https://nkvd.memo.ru/index.php/Документ:Приказ_войскам_Юго-Западного_фронта_№_4/Н_от_09.11.1941; Кадровый Состав Органов Государственной Безопасности СССР, 1935-1939 (Staff Personnel of the Organs of USSR State Security, 1935-1939), "Беркович, Ефим Самойлович," https://nkvd.memo.ru/index.php/Беркович,_Ефим_Самойлович.
[ii] A. V. Valyakin and A. A. Kokhan (eds.), Структура и деятельность органов германской разведки в годы второй мировой войны (Structure and Activities of German Intelligence Agencies During the Second World War) (Simferopol: B.i., 2011), Part I, Section III, https://istmat.org/node/28448.
[i] List of members of the Soviet 6th Army, https://nkvd.memo.ru/index.php/Документ:Приказ_войскам_Юго-Западного_фронта_№_4/Н_от_09.11.1941; Кадровый Состав Органов Государственной Безопасности СССР, 1935-1939 (Staff Personnel of the Organs of USSR State Security, 1935-1939), "Беркович, Ефим Самойлович," https://nkvd.memo.ru/index.php/Беркович,_Ефим_Самойлович.
[ii] A. V. Valyakin and A. A. Kokhan (eds.), Структура и деятельность органов германской разведки в годы второй мировой войны (Structure and Activities of German Intelligence Agencies During the Second World War) (Simferopol: B.i., 2011), Part I, Section III, https://istmat.org/node/28448.