- Anatoli Yatskov
Anatoli A. Yakovlev (Anatoliy Antonovich Yatskov Анатолий Антонович Яцков) (
31 May 1913 –26 March 1993 ) wasGeneral Consul of theSoviet Union 's delegation inNew York City in the 1940s. His diplomatic role was a cover for his true activities as anNKVD Senior Case Officer for the Sovietspy network in theUnited States during the 1940s until his return to the Soviet Union in 1946.Yatskov began work in the central apparatus for external reconnaissance in 1940. In 1941 he was sent to the New York "Rezidentura" as an operational worker. He carried out critical operations on the acquisition of information on the
Manhattan project ("ENORMOZ"). This information allowed Soviet scientists to obtain the highly useful data about the building of facilities for production of weapons-gradeuranium andplutonium , and also directly on the production of theatomic bomb .Yatskov collaborated with
Harry Gold , who stole industrial formulas from the Pennsylvania Sugar Company, and Soviet Union spy-masterAlexander Feklisov in the infiltration of the United States'Manhattan Project by having Gold liaise with scientistKlaus Fuchs .He also was one of the handlers of
Julius Rosenberg and was originally named in the indictment against the Rosenbergs,Morton Sobell andDavid Greenglass . However, Yakovlev was excluded from the indictment due todiplomatic immunity , and had, in any case, returned to the USSR four years prior to the indictment.After returning to the
Soviet Union Yatskov continued to work in control of scientific and technical intelligence. He repeatedly was engaged in operational work in the countries ofEurope andAsia .Yatskov, in an interview in October 1992, before his death in March 1993, said the
FBI uncovered "perhaps less than half" of his network. He referred to Perseus as a code name for a major source still alive.Yatskov was awarded the
Order of the October Revolution ,Order of the Red Banner of Labour , and theRed Star , and the badge of "Honorable State Security Agent".References
*Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) [http://svr.gov.ru]
*John Earl Haynes andHarvey Klehr , "Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America" (New Haven:Yale University Press , 1999). ISBN 0-300-08462-5
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