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Personal Details
- Russian Name
- Николай Тимофеевич Ершов
- Defection Date
- 1941
Nikolay Timofeyevich Yershov
Николай Тимофеевич Ершов
Service Details
Biography
Yershov was listed as an investigator in Abwehr Group 301,[i] a German counterintelligence unit that operated in Crimea, the North Caucasus, and Latvia.[ii] He formerly worked for the NKVD. The date and circumstances of his capture are not available.
[i] 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.
[ii] Sergey Chuev, Спецслужбы Третьего Рейха: Книга 1 (Special Services of the Third Reich: Book 1) (St. Petersburg: Neva, 2010), https://history.wikireading.ru/102674.
[i] 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.
[ii] Sergey Chuev, Спецслужбы Третьего Рейха: Книга 1 (Special Services of the Third Reich: Book 1) (St. Petersburg: Neva, 2010), https://history.wikireading.ru/102674.