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Vladimir Sergeevich Pravdin, or Roland Jacques Claude Abbiate, codename LETCHIK ["Pilot"], (July 1, 1905 – 1970) was a senior NKVD officer and assassin working in Europe during the Great Terror.
He later became a senior Soviet intelligence officer in New York and Washington, DC where he oversaw several important Soviet agents, such as Harry Dexter White, Lauchlin Currie, and Judith Coplon.[1]
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