58. Vladimir Lota, Informatory Stalina. Neizvestnye operatsii sovetskoi voennoi razvedki. 1944–1945 (Moscow: Tsetrpolitgraf, 2009), 216-27 (in Russian).
59. On SOE involvement in the Uprising, see Ogden, Through Hitler’s Back Door, 62–84.
60. Report about Šmidke’s mission to Stalin, dated August 10, 1944, and a Russian translation of Čatloš’s letter to the Soviet leaders. Document No. 1 in Russkii Arkhiv. Velikaya Otechestvennaya, 14 (3–2), 478–82.
61. Details in Ján Stanislav, ‘Mocnosti protifašisickej koalície a ozbrojený zápas v SNP,’ in Humanisické tradície v literárnom odkaze Slovenskeho národého povstania (Banská Bystrica, Slovakia: Štátna vedecká knižnica, 2004), 18–42 (in Slovakian), http://www.snp.sk/docs/zbornik.pdf, retrieved September 8, 2011.
62. Jan Loyda’s letter to the commandant of Vladimir Prison, dated January 28, 1953, from his personal file (page 78). A copy in the Riksarkivet Utrikesdepartementet (RA UD, Archive of the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs), Stockholm.
63. On January 8, 1947, representatives of the 3rd MGB Main Directorate handed Čatloš in Prague over to the Czechoslovak authorities. From Čatloš’s prisoner card at the Military Archive in Moscow.
64. ‘Jozef Turanec’ (in Czech), http://forum.valka.cz/viewtopic.php/p/186621#186621, retrieved September 8, 2011.
65. Peter B. Vlčko and Ryan P. Vlčko, ‘The Soviet Union’s Role in the Slovak National Uprising. The Talsky Affair: Incompetent, Traitor or Pawn?’ (2005), 34, http://sitemaker.umich.edu/ryanvlcko/files/soviet_role_in_the_slovak_national_uprising__snp_.pdf, retrieved September 8, 2011.
66. Parvilahti, Beria’s Gardens, 75.
67. On the NSNP see Boris Pryanishnikov, Novopokolentsy (Silver Spring, MD: Multilingual Typesetting, 1986) (in Russian).
68. Aleksandr Kolpakidi, Likvidatory KGB. Spetsoperatsii soverskikh spetssluzhb, 1941–2004 (Moscow: Yauza-Eksmo, 2004), 286 (in Russian).
69. Shulgin published a series of memoirs in Russian, but only one was translated into English: V. V. Shulgin, The Years: Memoirs of a Member of the Russian Duma, 1906–1917, translated by Tanya Davis (New York: Hippocrene Books, 1984).
70. See SMERSH’s documents on Shulgin’s arrest in Tyuremnaya odisseya Vasiliya Shulgina. Materialy sledstvennogo dela i dela zaklyuchennogo, edited by V. G. Makarov, A. V. Epnikov, and V. S. Khristoforov, 135–42 (Moscow: Knizhnitsa, 2010) (in Russian).
71. Details in A. Kolpakidi and D. Prokhorov, KGB: Prikazano likvidirovat’. Spetsoperatsii sovetskikh spetssluzhb 1918–1941 (Moscow: Yauza, 2004), 215–28 (in Russian).
72. Boris Koverda (1907–1987), a Russian emigrant, targeted Pyotr Voikov (1888–1927) for assassination because in 1917, Voikov participated in the decision to liquidate Nicholas II and his family. The Polish Extraordinary Court sentenced Koverda to life in prison, but in 1937 he was amnestied. After WWII, Koverda emigrated to the United States, where he lived and died near Washington, DC.
73. A photo of Abakumov’s report No. 759/A dated June 1945. SMERSH, 90.
74. Yu. B. Mordvinov, Belogvardeitsy. Avtobiograficheskaya povest’ (2001), 95–109 (in Russian).
75. Pavel Kutepov was released in 1954. He was not permitted to live in Moscow and settled down in the city of Ivanovo. In 1960, he was hired by the Moscow Patriarchate as a translator and moved to Moscow. In 1967, Kutepov was promoted to head of the Translation Bureau of the Foreign Affairs Church Department of the Moscow Patriarchate. He died in 1983. Shulgin was released on September 14, 1956, but he was allowed to live only in Vladimir. His wife came from abroad to join him. He died on February 15, 1976 and was rehabilitated on November 12, 2001.
76. A photo of the first page of Abakumov’s report to Beria No. 684/A dated March 1945, SMERSH. Istoricheskie ocherki, 150.
77. Memoirs by Yevgenii Popov, former RU translator, cited in Vladimir Lota, Informatory Stalina. Neizvestnye operatsii sovetskoi voennoi razvedki. 1944–1945 (Moscow: Tsentrpoligraf, 2009), 317–20 (in Russian).
78. Atzel’s statement to the officers of the Political Directorate of the 46th Army, dated November 27, 1944. Document No. 33 in Russkii Arkhiv. Velikaya Otechestvennaya, 14 (3–2), 331–5.
79. On van der Waals’s story in Budapest see Karoly Kapronczay, Refugees in Hungary: Shelters from Storm During World War II, translated by Eva Barcza-Bessenyey (Toronto: Matthias Corvinus Publishing, 1999), 198–203; on SOE in Hungary see Ogden Through Hitler’s Back Door, 23–61, 90–93.
80. Report by Folke Persson, Swedish Consul in New York, to the Swedish Foreign Ministry about a conversation with Karl Schandl, dated February 7, 1958. In Raoul Wallenberg—A Collection of Documents (Stockholm: Utrikesdepartement), Vol. 42 (the collection does not include a year of publication or page numbers).
81. Sinevirsky, SMERSH, 183.
82. Report of Major Petrovsky, assistant head of the 2nd Department, UKR SMERSH, 2nd Ukrainian Front, dated January 23, 1945. Raoul Wallenberg’s Document Database (RWDD), Riksarkivet Utrikesdepartementet (RA UD, Archive of the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs), Stockholm.
83. On Raoul Wallenberg’s background and his work in Budapest, see Jenö Lėvai, Raoul Wallenberg: His Remarkable Life, Heroic Battles and the Secret of His Mysterious Disappearance, translated into English by Frank Vajda (Melbourne: University of Melbourne, 1989) and Paul A. Levine, Raoul Wallenberg in Budapest: Myth, History and Holocaust (London: Valentine Mitchell, 2010).
84. T. Kushner, ‘Rules of the Game: Britain, America and the Holocaust in 1944,’ Holocaust and Genocide Studies 5, no. 4 (1990), 381–402.
85. Document Nos. 18 and 74 in Dokumenty vneshnei politiki. 1940–22 iyunya 1941, Tom 23, Kniga 1 (Moscow: Mezhdunarodnye otnosheniya, 1998) (in Russian), and Document No. 804 in ibid., Tom 23, Kniga 2 (2) (Moscow: Mezhdunarodnye otnosheniya, 1998), 634–6 (in Russian).
86. Copies of military reports and orders regarding Raoul Wallenberg and Jan Spišjak, Max Meier and Harald Feller (RWDD, RA UD, Stockholm).
87. Cable to Commander of the 30th Rifle Corps, dated January 14, 1945 (RWDD, RA UD, Stockholm).
88. Ibid.
89. Zakharov’s cable No. 987 to Bulganin (RWDD, RA UD, Stockholm).
90. Bulganin’s order to Zakharov and Abakumov (cable No. 5533/sh), dated January 17, 1945 (RWDD, RA UD, Stockholm).
91. Wallenberg’s prisoner card from the FSB Central Archive (RWDD, RA UD, Stockholm).
92. Note to Lt. Colonel Ryndin, head of the Operational Group of the 2nd Ukrainian Front in Budapest, dated January 22, 1945 (RWDD, RA UD, Stockholm).
93. Zakharov’s cable No. 1619 to Bulganin, dated January 25, 1945 (RWDD, RA UD, Stockholm).
94. Special Annex to Bulletin No. XXXII (1945), 8. Courtesy by Lovice Maria Ullein-Reviczky, Antal Ullein-Reviczky Foundation (Hungary).
95. Bulganin’s cable to Zakharov No. 1367/sh, dated January 27, 1945 (RWDD, RA UD, Stockholm).