Vasiliy Pavlovich Korniyevskiy

Korniyevskiy was born in 1923 in the village of Ivanovka in the Donetsk Oblast of Ukraine. From 1941, he served as a chief of a rural police force in Ivanovka. In March 1943, he was recruited as a German military intelligence agent and dispatched into the Soviet rear area on an intelligence mission. He later served as the commander of a police unit in Struzhka and participated in anti-partisan combat in Belarus and Poland.

In August 1945, Korniyevskiy was mobilized into the Soviet Army into a rifle regiment located in Austria, using the name Starokan. In May 1947, he was recruited as an agent by Soviet intelligence and counterintelligence, and later he was employed as a contract German language interpreter for work with intelligence agent networks, using the pseudonym Voronetskiy.

He defected to the British Zone of Austria in April 1948, and by 1949 he was working as a driver for the U.S. CIC in Austria. He was sentenced in absentia to execution in March 1952. No further information is available about his whereabouts.[i]

[i] 1979 KGB Wanted List, person number 333.