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Lev Petrovich Vasilevsky (1904-1979), also known as Leonid A. Tarasov, was the KGB Mexico City Illegal Resident during much of the period of the Manhattan Project. In 1943, the Moscow Center of KGB intelligence activities in North America, decided all contacts with J. Robert Oppenheimer, scientific director of the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos laboratory, would be through 'illegals' only. Vasilevsky, operating from Mexico City, was put in charge of running the illegal network after New York Resident Vasily Zarubin had been recalled to Moscow. Vasilevsky's instructions were to control the network from the Mexico City Residentura. Bruno Pontecorvo was the conduit supplying the atomic secrets from Enrico Fermi. Vasilevsky provided Pontecorvo with an escape route through Finland which Pontec

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  • Lev Petróvich Vasilevski (Kursk, 1904 - Moscú, 1979) fue un agente del NKVD soviético que, entre otras misiones, participó en la Guerra Civil española y en el asesinato de León Trotski. (es)
  • Lev Petrovich Vasilevsky (1904-1979), also known as Leonid A. Tarasov, was the KGB Mexico City Illegal Resident during much of the period of the Manhattan Project. In 1943, the Moscow Center of KGB intelligence activities in North America, decided all contacts with J. Robert Oppenheimer, scientific director of the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos laboratory, would be through 'illegals' only. Vasilevsky, operating from Mexico City, was put in charge of running the illegal network after New York Resident Vasily Zarubin had been recalled to Moscow. Vasilevsky's instructions were to control the network from the Mexico City Residentura. Bruno Pontecorvo was the conduit supplying the atomic secrets from Enrico Fermi. Vasilevsky provided Pontecorvo with an escape route through Finland which Pontecorvo used in 1950 after the arrest of Klaus Fuchs. Kitty Harris went to Mexico City in early 1943 to be a courier for Vasilevsky. She was further detailed by Vasilevsky to the Santa Fe drugstore safe house where she coordinated the front's clandestine activities. In 1945, for his work in handling the Fermi line in the United States, Vasilevsky was appointed deputy director of Department S. For a short period in 1947 he was the director of the department of scientific and technological intelligence in the Committee of Information (KI). In November 1945, when the Soviet atomic bomb project was having difficulty starting its first nuclear reactor. Yakov Terletsky of the Soviet project and Vasilevsky travelled to Denmark to seek the advice of Niels Bohr, another veteran of the World War II Manhattan project. (en)
  • Lew Pietrowicz Wasilewski (ros. Лев Петрович Василевский, ur. 16 sierpnia 1903 w Kursku, zm. we wrześniu 1979 w Moskwie) – Żyd, funkcjonariusz radzieckich służb specjalnych, pułkownik bezpieczeństwa państwowego. (pl)
  • Лев Петрович Василевский (псевдоним — Тарасов; 1903, Курск — 1979, Москва) — советский разведчик, полковник госбезопасности. (ru)
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  • Lev Petróvich Vasilevski (Kursk, 1904 - Moscú, 1979) fue un agente del NKVD soviético que, entre otras misiones, participó en la Guerra Civil española y en el asesinato de León Trotski. (es)
  • Lew Pietrowicz Wasilewski (ros. Лев Петрович Василевский, ur. 16 sierpnia 1903 w Kursku, zm. we wrześniu 1979 w Moskwie) – Żyd, funkcjonariusz radzieckich służb specjalnych, pułkownik bezpieczeństwa państwowego. (pl)
  • Лев Петрович Василевский (псевдоним — Тарасов; 1903, Курск — 1979, Москва) — советский разведчик, полковник госбезопасности. (ru)
  • Lev Petrovich Vasilevsky (1904-1979), also known as Leonid A. Tarasov, was the KGB Mexico City Illegal Resident during much of the period of the Manhattan Project. In 1943, the Moscow Center of KGB intelligence activities in North America, decided all contacts with J. Robert Oppenheimer, scientific director of the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos laboratory, would be through 'illegals' only. Vasilevsky, operating from Mexico City, was put in charge of running the illegal network after New York Resident Vasily Zarubin had been recalled to Moscow. Vasilevsky's instructions were to control the network from the Mexico City Residentura. Bruno Pontecorvo was the conduit supplying the atomic secrets from Enrico Fermi. Vasilevsky provided Pontecorvo with an escape route through Finland which Pontec (en)
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  • Lev Vasilevski (es)
  • Lev Vasilevsky (en)
  • Lew Wasilewski (pl)
  • Василевский, Лев Петрович (ru)
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