The Sword and the Shield

^{APPENDIX B} HEADS OF FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE, 1920-99

Yakov Kristoforovich Davryan (Davydov) 1920-1 (Cheka)

Solomon Grigoryevich Mogilevsky 1921 (Cheka)

Mikhail Abramovich Trilisser 1921-30 (Cheka/GPU/OGPU)

Artur Khristyanovich Artuzov 1930-6 (OGPU/NKVD)

Abram Abramovich Slutsky 1936-8 (NKVD)

Zelman I. Pasov 1938 (NKVD)

Sergei Mikhailovich Shpigelglas 1938 (NKVD)

Vladimir Georgiyevich Dekanozov 1938-9 (NKVD)

Pavel Mikhailovich Fitin 1939-46 (NKVD/NKGB/NKVD/MGB)

Pyotr Nikolayevich Kubatkin 1946 (June-September) (MGB)

Pyotr Vasilyevich Fedotov 1946-9 (Deputy Chairman, KI, 1947-9)

Sergei Romanovich Savchenko 1949-52 (Deputy Chairman, KI, 1949-51)

Yevgeni Petrovich Pitovranov 1952-3 (MGB)

Vasili Stepanovich Ryasnoy 1953 (March-June) (MGB)

Aleksandr Semyonovich Panyushkin 1953-6 (MGB/KGB)

Aleksandr Mikhailovich Sakharovsky 1956-71 (KGB)

Fyodor Konstantinovich Mortin 1971-4 (KGB)

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kryuchkov 1974-88 (KGB)

Leonid Vladimirovich Shebarshin 1988-91 (KGB)

Yevgeni Maksimovich Primakov 1991-6 (SVR)

Vyacheslav Ivanovich Trubnikov 1996- (SVR)