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Personal Details
- Russian Name
- Григорий Криворучко
- Defection Date
- 1941
Grigoriy Krivoruchko
Григорий Криворучко
Service Details
Biography
Krivoruchko was listed as a recruiter for Abwehr Command 102,[i] which was later renamed Abwehr Command 1A. He formerly worked for the NKVD. The Abwehr unit was responsible for recruiting intelligence agents from among Soviet POWs in central Ukraine.[ii] The date and circumstances of Krivoruchko’s capture are not available.
[1] 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 II, https://istmat.org/node/28437.
[2] Sergey Chuev, Спецслужбы Третьего Рейха: Книга 1 (Special Services of the Third Reich: Book 1) (St. Petersburg: Neva, 2010), https://history.wikireading.ru/102627.
[1] 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 II, https://istmat.org/node/28437.
[2] Sergey Chuev, Спецслужбы Третьего Рейха: Книга 1 (Special Services of the Third Reich: Book 1) (St. Petersburg: Neva, 2010), https://history.wikireading.ru/102627.