Main Intelligence Directorate (Soviet Union) controversies
Controversies tied to this brand in public sources. A listing is not a finding of fault.
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1938
Great Purge and killing of Yan Berzin
Yan Berzin, an important early director of Soviet military intelligence, was arrested during the Great Purge and killed during the Latvian Operation. The case formed part of the wider political repression that struck the Soviet military and security apparatus.