Iskhak Akhmerov
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Ishkak Akhmerov (undated)
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| Allegiance | USSR |
| Service | OGPU/NKVD (KGB) |
| Active | 1930–1976 |
| Award(s) | Order of the Red Banner, Order of the Badge of Honor, badge of Honored Chekist |
| Codename(s) | William Grienke |
| Michael Green | |
| Michael Adamec (Mayor and Albert in Venona) | |
| Walter Grinke (cited by Hede Massing) | |
| Bill and Bill Grinke (cited by Hede Massing) | |
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| Birth name | Iskhak Abdulovich Akhmerov |
| Born |
April 7, 1901 Troitsk |
| Died | July 18, 1976 (aged 75) |
| Nationality | Russian (Tatar) |
| Spouse | Helen Lowry (AKA "Elza Akhmerova") |
| Alma mater | First State University |
Iskhak Abdulovich Akhmerov (Russian: Исха́к Абду́лович Ахме́ров, Tatar: Cyrillic Исхак Габдулла улы Әхмәров, Latin İsxaq Ğabdulla ulı Əxmərov) (1901–1976) was a highly decorated OGPU/NKVD (KGB) officer, best known to historians for his role in KGB operations in the United States 1942–1945. His name appears in the Venona decryptions over fifty times, often as signatory, and on his return to the Soviet Union in 1945/46, he rose to deputy chief of the KGB's 'illegal' intelligence section. (NOTE: Many details from Haynes and Klehr's Venona come from Veterany Vneshnei Razvedki Rossii [Moscow: Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, 1995], which forms the basis of their profile of him in their book's Appendix E.)
Akhmerov was born in Troitsk, located in modern Chelyabinsk Oblast, and came from a Tatar background.
He joined the Bolshevik Party in 1919, and attended the Communist University of Toilers of the East and the First State University, where he graduated from the School of International Relations in 1930.
Akhmerov joined the OGPU/NKVD in 1930 and participated in the suppression of anti-Soviet movements in the USSR's Bukhara Republic between 1930 and 1931.
In 1932, Akhmerov transferred to the foreign intelligence division ("INO") of the NKVD and served as a 'legal' intelligence officer under diplomatic cover in Turkey.
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