The last burial was at the SMERSH facility in Magdeburg on 21 February 1946.

Abakumov was the head of SMERSH from 1943 to 1946 ; his relationship with Beria was marked by close collaboration ( since Abakumov owed his rise to Beria's support and esteem ), but also by rivalry.

As Beria's fall from power began, Sarkisov sent the list to the new NKVD chief ( and former wartime head of SMERSH ), Viktor Abakumov, who was already aggressively building a case against Beria.

For the first time in the Bond novels, there is friction between Bond and M in Dr. No, brought about because Bond was nearly killed by SMERSH agent Rosa Klebb in From Russia, with Love.

In April 1943, the CI sections were again transferred to the People's Commissariats ( Narkomat ) of Defense and the Navy, becoming SMERSH ( from Smert ' Shpionam or " Death to Spies "); at the same time, the NKVD was again separated from the NKGB.

Like others from the Führerbunker who were captured, he was interrogated by SMERSH.

SMERSH (, acronym of СМЕРть Шпионам, SMERt ' SHpionam ; " Death to spies ") was the counter-intelligence agency in the Red Army formed in late 1942 or even earlier, but officially founded on 14 April 1943.

The name SMERSH was coined by Joseph Stalin.

SMERSH was less concerned about the counter-intelligence ( covered by NKGB " Special Services "), than about the loyalty of the Red Army's own servicemen and commanders.

On 19 April 1943, staff was appointed to SMERSH.

The KI was again transferred to the People's Commissariats of Defence ( NKO ) and the Navy ( NKF ), becoming SMERSH within NKO.

The full name of the head entity was Главное управление контрразведки СМЕРШ Народного комиссариата обороны СССР, or USSR People's Commissariat of Defence Chief Counterintelligence Directorate " SMERSH ".

In March 1946 SMERSH Chief Directorate was resubordinated to the People's Commissariat of Military Forces ( Наркомат Вооруженных Сил, NKVS ).

The NKVS was later reorganized into the Ministry of Military Forces ( МVS ) soon thereafter, and SMERSH was officially discontinued 4 May 1946.

As the war concluded, SMERSH was given the assignment of finding Adolf Hitler and, if possible, capturing him alive or recovering his body.

At the end of the Second World War, American forces examining captured German intelligence sources determined that SMERSH was composed of six directorates, six departments, and three other branches.

The Securitate was created with the help of SMERSH, the NKVD counter-intelligence unit.

The SMERSH operation in Romania, called Brigada Mobilă (" The Mobile Brigade "), was led until 1948 by NKVD colonel Alexandru Nicolschi.

Viktor Semyonovich Abakumov ( 24 April 1908, Moscow – 19 December 1954, Moscow ; Colonel General ), was a high level Soviet security organs official, from 1943 to 1946 the head of SMERSH in the USSR People's Commissariat of Defense, and from 1946 to 1951 Minister of State Security or MGB ( ex-NKGB ).

In April 1943 when Chief Counterintelligence Directorate of the People's Commissariat of Defence of the USSR ( or GUKR NKO USSR ) better known as SMERSH was created, Abakumov was put in charge of it, in the rank of Commissar ( 2nd rank ) of State Security, and held the title of vice-Commissar of Defense.

Though Fleming's version of SMERSH supposedly was modelled upon the real SMERSH organization, which existed 1943-1946, the novels portray SMERSH as a massive Soviet counterintelligence organisation, much more resembling the real-life KGB, which aims its operatives abroad in subversion of the West, with the additional goal of killing Western spies, particularly James Bond of SIS.

Boothroyd also gave Fleming advice on the Berns-Martin triple draw shoulder holster and a number of the weapons used by SMERSH and other villains.

( In the spoof-film version of Casino Royale, British comedian Ronnie Corbett comments that SMERSH includes among its agents not only Le Chiffre, but also " Peter Lorre and Bela Lugosi ".

The story centres on the investigation by MI6 operative James Bond into the gold smuggling activities of Auric Goldfinger, who is also suspected by MI6 of being connected to SMERSH, the Soviet counter-intelligence organisation.

Back in London, Bond's superior, M, tasks him with determining how Goldfinger is smuggling gold out of the country: M also suspects Goldfinger of being connected to SMERSH and financing their western networks with his gold.

* State Directorate of Counter-Intelligence ( GUKR-NKO ), also called SMERSH.

SMERSH also took an active role in the affairs of the Red Army by ensuring the good quality of Red Army facilities, improving discipline, eliminating poor leaders, and preventing desertion, self-inflicted wounds, panic, sabotage and poor discipline.

SMERSH operatives also controlled partisan operations behind German lines and evaluated the partisans ’ loyalty to the Soviet Union.

SMERSH also ran three other groups ; the Komendatura, which guarded and managed SMERSH installations and prisoners ; the Troika, which acted as a military court and could administer punishment without defense from the accused ; and the Administrative Bureau and Secretariat, which acted as the personal staff of the SMERSH commander.

SMERSH is also an element in the 1967 spoofed film adaptation of Casino Royale that centres upon Le Chiffre's attempted recovery of SMERSH monies via baccarat at the Royale casino.

Mosolov being not only an agent of the KGB, but also an agent working within " Department V " ( formerly SMERSH ).

* General Konstantin Nikolaevich Chernov: Codenamed " Blackfriar ", Chernov ( also known as Koyla Chernov ) is the Chief Investigating Officer of Department Eight, Directorate S ( formerly SMERSH ).

A joking reference to SMERSH also appears in the spoof film, Casino Royale ( 1967 ), in which anyone who uttered the name was quieted by someone else saying " SHHHHHHHH!

It also differs from the latter half of Fleming's Bond novels in which SMERSH is mentioned to have been put out of operation.

The Soviet POWs and the Vlasov men were put under the jurisdiction of SMERSH ( Death to Spies ).

The story centres on a plot by SMERSH, the Soviet counterintelligence agency, to assassinate Bond in such a way as to discredit both him and his organisation, the Secret Service.

SMERSH, the Soviet counterintelligence agency, plans to commit a grand act of terrorism in the intelligence field.

SPECTRE began in the novels as a small group of criminals but became a vast international organisation with its own SPECTRE Island training base in the films, to replace the Soviet SMERSH.

An elaborate political police apparatus kept the population under close surveillance, including Soviet SMERSH secret police.

As the requirements of the war expanded and the Soviet armies began their conquest of previously occupied German territory, the complexities of counter-espionage, counter-insurgency, and occupation were sufficiently large to encourage Stalin to consolidate all of SMERSH under his direct control.

The GKO officially created SMERSH to ensure the Soviet Union ’ s security from internal political threats and foreign espionage, although it carried out a wide variety of other tasks between 1943 and 1946 as well.

SMERSH ’ s counterintelligence operations included seeking and destroying counter revolutionaries, finding and interrogating enemy agents, hunting Soviet agents who had not returned by the appointed date, and evaluating the usefulness of captured enemy documents.

As the requirements of the war expanded and the Soviet armies began their conquest of previously occupied German territory, the complexities of counter-espionage, counter-insurgency, and occupation were sufficiently large to encourage Stalin to consolidate all of SMERSH under his direct control.

Before Operation Bagration, the largest Allied operation of the Second World War, SMERSH caught and “ doubled ” a number of German agents who tricked the German military into underestimating the number of Soviet troops by 1. 2 million men.

This branch of the NSZ conducted operations against Polish and Jewish members of the Polish communist secret police, the Soviet NKVD, SMERSH, and their own former leaders that claimed dozens of victims.

Kaczyński memorialized many of Poland ’ s national heroes known as cursed soldiers who perished at the hands of the Polish secret police, the Soviet NKVD, the SMERSH, and other repressive organs of communist rule.

He joined the Soviet secret police in 1939 and served in the SMERSH during World War II.

SMERSH is a Soviet counterintelligence agency featured in Ian Fleming's early James Bond novels as agent 007's nemesis.

Within the world of James Bond, SMERSH is a Soviet counterintelligence agency that is a recurring threat to him and the British Secret Service.

Since then, Bond has sought revenge several times, beginning in the second novel, Live and Let Die, wherein Bond is almost uninterested in disrupting Mr. Big's financing of Soviet operations until learning that Big is a SMERSH agent.

In the continuation novels ( and novelisations ), however, SMERSH returns as an organisation essentially renamed and reorganised within Soviet intelligence.

Soviet SMERSH forces arrived on Texel and took charge of 228 Georgians still alive.