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Catalogue description Ivan Aleksandrovich SEROV. Said to be a close friend of Stalin, SEROV was a GPU/NKVD...
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| Reference: | KV 2/3829 |
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| Description: |
Ivan Aleksandrovich SEROV. Said to be a close friend of Stalin, SEROV was a GPU/NKVD veteran who became Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs under Beria and was one of those few to survive the purge of Beria's adherents, becoming Chairman of the Committee of State Security. In the 1950s for a time SEROV was head of the KGB, and then moved to be head of Soviet Military Intelligence (GRU) |
| Date: | 1941 Mar 01 - 1956 Feb 19 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in its original department: | PF 69442 VOL 1 |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Closure status: | Open Document, Open Description |
| Access conditions: | Retained Until 2014 |
| Record opening date: | 28 February 2014 |
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