Alexandre Feklisov

Aleksandr Semyonovich Feklisov (born 1914) was the KGB Case Officer who recruited Julius Rosenberg and Klaus Fuchs, among others. Feklisov worked as a KGB case officer in the Russian consulate office in New York from 1940-1946. His supervisor was Senior Case Officer Anatoli Yatskov (alias Yakovlev). Part of Feklisov's duties included recruitment of agent prospects from among sympathetic Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) and its auxiliary secret apparatus to engage in espionage. Rosenberg was among these recruits. In the period from 1943 to 1946, Feklisov would report at least 50 meetings with Julius Rosenberg. He stated that Julius Rosenberg provided important top secret information about electronics and helped organize an industrial espionage ring for Moscow, but "didn't understand anything about the atom bomb." 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... The KGB emblem and motto: The sword and the shield KGB (transliteration of КГБ) is the Russian-language abbreviation for Committee for State Security, (Russian: ; Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti). ... The Rosenbergs Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg (1915-1953) and Julius Rosenberg (1918-1953) were American Communists who captured and maintained world attention after being tried, convicted, and executed for spying for the Soviet Union. ... Klaus Fuchs ID badge at Los Alamos. ... 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... The Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) is one of several Marxist-Leninist groups in the United States. ... Espionage (spying) is a practice of obtaining information about an organization or a society that is considered secret or confidential without the permission of the holder of the information. ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar). ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ...

Feklisov stated Ethel Rosenberg, as a "probationer", did not meet directly with Soviet Agent handler. He also said she "had nothing to do with this" and was "completely innocent." In August 1946 Feklisov returned to the USSR. By the late 1940's, Feklisov was transferred to the London Rezidentura. Eventually Feklisov was transferred back to the United States and became the Washington, D.C. Rezident, or KGB Station Chief from 1960–1964. His cover name at that time was Aleksandr Fomin. As KGB Rezident, Feklisov (Fomin) proposed what became the basis for resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the removal of missiles from Cuba in exchange for a promise that the United States not invade the island nation. Agent handler is a generic term common to many intelligence organizations which can be applied to Case Officers, those who aspire to be Case officers, controllers, contacts, couriers and other assorted trainees. ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Nickname: DC, The District Motto: Justitia Omnibus (Justice for All) Location of Washington, D.C., in relation to the states Maryland and Virginia Coordinates: Country United States Federal District District of Columbia Government  - Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D)  - City Council Chairperson: Vincent C. Gray (D) Ward 1: Jim Graham (D... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ... 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ... USAF reconnaissance photo of one of the suspected launch sites The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation during the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States regarding the Soviet deployment of nuclear missiles in Cuba. ...

Feklisov was portrayed by Harris Yulin in the 1974 film The Missiles of October, and by Boris Lee Krutonog in the 2000 film Thirteen Days. As Aamin Marritza in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ... The Missiles of October (1974) is a docudrama about the Cuban missile crisis. ... 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ... DVD cover Thirteen Days (2000) is a film is about the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. ...

Reference

• Feklisov, Alexandre, The Man Behind the Rosenbergs: Memoirs of the KGB Spymaster Who Also Controlled Klaus Fuchs and Helped Resolve the Cuban Missile Crisis, New York: Enigma, 2001