Anatole Boris Volkov

Anatole Boris Volkov (29 October, 1924 - 28 November, 2000) was a courier for the Silvermaster spy ring between Washington, D.C. and New York City.

Ancestry

He was related to Count Sergei Witte, who was of Czar Nicholas II’s Finance Minister of Russia from 1892 to 1903. His mother, Elena Witte, was a baroness. In 1923 Vilkov’s parents emigrated to San Francisco, California.

Birth and education

He was born on 29 October, 1924 in San Francisco, California. [California Birth Index: Anatole B Volkov; 29 Oct 1924; Male; Witte; San Francisco ] After a divorce his mother married Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, head of the Silvermaster group who spied for the Soviet Union during World War II. Volkov spent two years as a radar operator in the United States Navy in the Pacific. He received a B.S. in science at North Carolina University in 1948 and a M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Wisconsin in Madison in 1950.

After the War Volkov moved to Israel and did research at the Technion, in Haifa, and the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot. From there he moved to Copenhagen in 1963 and worked at the Niels Bohr Institute. In 1964 he moved to Florida and taught at McMaster University until his retirement in 1989.

Death

He died on 28 November, 2000 in Wilmington, Delaware. [Social Security Death Index]

References

External links

*FBI Silvermaster File
* [http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/silversm.htm FBI Silvermaster file]
* [http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/app/home/contribution.asp?wasp=2b5d53ed5f9d474ab1e71e1690546798&referrer=parent&backto=searcharticlesresults,2,1000;homemain,1,1;"Bernard Schuster and Joseph Katz: KGB Master Spies in the United States"]