We must constantly encourage Western journalists to write precisely the opposite of our real intentions and anyone who writes or speaks about our real intentions accurately or impartially in the Western sense of these words must quickly be dismissed and ridiculed as someone of the Right or a fascist, someone who wants to bring back McCarthyism.
KGB officer (1911–1968)
Ivan Ivanovich Agayants (August 28 1911 – May 12 1968) was a leading Soviet NKVD/KGB intelligence officer of Armenian origin. He reportedly helped prevent a German operation to attack the three allied leaders meeting at the 1943 Teheran Conference. On his return to Moscow Agayants was appointed to head the Western European Department of what would become the KGB.
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Alternative Names:
Ivan Ivanovič Agajnc
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Ivan Ivanovich Agayants
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Ivan Agajnc, Ivan Ivanovič
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Ivan Agayants, Ivan Ivanovich
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