Petr Trofimovich Gryadunov

Petr Trofimovich Gryadunov was born in 1916 in the village of Timonovka near Bryansk. Before the war he worked as a lathe operator near Moscow. He was drafted into the Soviet Army in June 1941. In October 1941, Gryadunov was sent behind German lines as a radio operator for an intelligence team in the Smolensk Oblast. He surrendered to German forces and was recruited into Abwehrkommand-303. In 1943, he was used in radio games to deceive Soviet forces about the locations of Soviet units. He later joined a German police unit using the name Utesov. In 1944, he reportedly working in the Minsk police under German occupation and was then sent to a German university in Berlin. In the summer or 1963 or 1964, he was reported visiting his sister-in-law who was living in Cherkassy, Ukraine, and in fall 1964 he reportedly visited his sister in Moscow. Nothing further is known of his whereabouts.[i]