Ignace Reiss
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title:
Ignace Reiss
text:
Ignace Reiss – also known as "Ignace Poretsky," "Ignatz Reiss," "Ludwig," "Ludwik", "Hans Eberhardt," "Steff Brandt," Nathan Poreckij, and "Walter Scott" – was one of the "Great Illegals" or Soviet spies who worked in third party countries where they were not nationals in the late 1920s and 1930s. He was known as a nevozvrashchenec ("unreturnable"). An NKVD team assassinated him on 4 September 1937 near Lausanne, Switzerland, a few weeks after he declared his defection in a letter addressed to J
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Soviet spy (1899–1937)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignace_Reiss
date created:
2010-08-30T04:06:43Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T06:02:21Z
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