Zelman Passov
Zelman Passov | |
|---|---|
| Head of the 5th Department of GUGB-NKVD | |
| In office June 9, 1938 – November 2, 1938 | |
| Preceded by | Sergey Spigelglas |
| Succeeded by | Pavel Sudoplatov |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Zelman Isaevich Passov April 1905 |
| Died | 15 February 1940 (aged 34) |
| Awards | |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1921–1922) Soviet Union (1922–1938) |
| Branch/service | Red Army GPU OGPU NKVD |
| Rank | Senior Major of State Security |
| Battles/wars | Russian Civil War |
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Zelman Isaevich Passov (Russian: Зельман Исаевич Пассов; 1905 – 15 February 1940) was a Soviet security officer who headed the Soviet foreign intelligence service, then part of the NKVD from June to November 1938. In October 1938, he was arrested on charges of "participating in an anti-Soviet conspiracy". He was shot on the night of 15 February 1940.
He was executed a year and a half later.
Passov originally joined the secret police, the GPU, in 1922. He received the Order of Lenin in 1937.