Anatoliy Mikhailovich Odintsov

Anatoliy Mikhailovich Odintsov was born in 1907 in either Leningrad, Karelia, or the Murmansk Oblast. He was a member of the Communist Party and before the war held the rank of captain. He served as the assistant to the chief of an intelligence section in the Kiev special military district. He was taken captive by German forces near Poltava in September 1941. By 1942, he was working as an instructor in a German intelligence school in Warsaw. He was later sent to a POW camp in Rovno, where he became acquainted with an officer in the "Abwehrstelle Kiev,” a German counterintelligence unit. Up to 1945, he served in various German counterintelligence units in Ukraine, where he revealed Soviet intelligence personnel in Ukraine and Hungary.[i]