Konstantin Jeffremov

rdf:langString Konstantin Jeffremov

rdf:langString Konstantin Lukitsch Jeffremov

rdf:langString Konstantin Lukitsch Jeffremov

rdf:langString Captain Konstantin Jeffremov

rdf:langString Head of a Netherlands and later Belgian espionage group

rdf:langString Agent of GRU, Active espionage group leader

rdf:langString Konstantin Lukitsch Jeffremov (born 15 May 1910), also known as Konstantin Yeffremov, was a Soviet GRU intelligence officer, known as a scout in Soviet intelligence parlance, with the rank of captain. Jeffremov, an anti-Semite. was an expert in chemical warfare. Jeffremov used the aliases Pascal and Eric Jernstroem to disguise his identity in messages He had been working for Soviet intelligence since 1936. and the alias Bordo. He was the organizer of a Soviet espionage network in the Netherlands and the Low Countries In 1942, Jeffremov took over the running of a number of networks in Belgium and the Netherlands, that had been damaged in the months prior, after several members were arrested by the Abwehr. These networks was later given the moniker, the Red Orchestra ("Rote Kapelle") by the Abwehr. Jeffremov was arrested in July 1942 and agreed to work for the Abwehr in a Funkspiel operation, after being tortured.