Sudoplatov was born in 1907 in Melitopol, Ukraine. He joined the Red Army as a twelve year old recruit in 1919. By the time he was arrested for crimes against the Russian people in 1953, he had attained the rank of a two star general in the NKVD. He was imprisoned from 1953 to 1968 and published ‘Special Tasks‘ in 1994.
Before we go into the secrets that Sudoplatov reveals, it is important to know that although he is technically a gentile, he was married to a jew; had children with a jew and worked for, promoted, and was promoted by jews during his entire career. In fact, only Khrushchev’s falling out with Beria, and Beria’s subsequent execution, led to Sudoplatov’s disempowerment. He tries his best not to betray the ‘chosen people’ but the facts get in the way.
Sudoplatov’s book is important on several levels. He worked closely with Stalin, Beria and Molotov before, during, and after WWII. He was also head of the Soviet Atomic Espionage Department during the Manhatten Project.
Here are just a few of Sudoplatov’s insights:
The diversity in America, the plethora of foreign-born immigrant communities within your population, are the pride of your melting pot. Yet within these communities we were able to enlist thousands of agents ready to destroy you in case war broke out betweeen us. During World War II, more than ninety percent of the lonely soldiers spread throughout Western Europe who sent us crucial information that enabled us to beat back the German invasion were jews whose hatred of Hitler spurred them to risk their lives and famlies. — ST, p. 4.
It was in the second half of 1946, when Stalin had become disenchanted with jewish alliances abroad and jewish demands at home and was feeling isolated by the British-American joint stand in Palestine, that he began to stimulate an anti-semitic campaign, which culminated in a purge of jews from the party machinery, diplomatic service, military appatatus, and intelligence services. It developed into the infamous Doctors’ Plot and Zionist conspiracy charges… It is rumored that a plan existed for deportation of jews from Moscow on the eve of Stalin’s death. — ST, p. 293-4/308.
Stalin’s death brought an end to the Doctors’ Plot, but anti-semitism remained a potent force. Beria initiated the exposure of the ‘fabrications’ that had gripped the country in a paranoic spasm of fear, and began to rehabilitate the arrested doctors… In May 1953, Zoya Zarubina, heard at a confidential party meeting that Beria was concealing his jewish origins. He was arrested two months later. — ST, p. 307.
Kheifetz said that Oppenheimer, the son of a German-jewish immigrant, was deeply moved by the information that a secure place for jews in the Soviet Union was guaranteed. We received reports on the progress of the Manhattan Project from Oppenheimer and his friends… with their full knowledge that the information they were sharing would be passed on. In all, there were five classified reports made available by Oppenheimer describing the progress of the work on the atomic bomb. Oppenheimer, together with Fermi and Szilard, helped us place moles in Tennessee, Los Alamos, and Chicago as assistants in those three labs. — ST, p. 188-94.
