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clandestine agents abroad, and for the "legal" N.K.V.D. residents abroad.
This last section was No. 6. Its chief, Koslov, was dismissed during the
purges, and after his successor was sent to the United States as a cipher
clerk, the section was headed by a man not unknown to later fame—
Vladimir M. Petrov, who defected in 1954 and was granted asylum in
Australia,*
*Petrov named three men who were his bosses at different times while
he was section chief—Ilyin, Degtjarov, and Shevelev. Whether these were
the heads of the entire, then newly formed N.K.V.D. 5th Directorate, or
whether they were department heads (a possible administrative level
between the section chiefs and the directorate's chief), is not known. The
former may be more likely in view of the fact that Boki's successor,
Shapiro, lasted only a month or two before he was arrested, and three or
four of Shapiro's successors were also arrested.
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