Konstantin Kutin, famous Russian spy extracted secrets from the Roosevelt Administration.
The Russian Foreign Intelligence service (SVR) posted a tribute to former spy Konstantin Kutin on its website.
Kutin it seems worked in Washington DC from 1937 -1940 “extracting secrets about the Roosevelt administration’s position on major international issues.”
“Konstantin Kukin , born in 1897, was one of the senior staff of the Soviet foreign intelligence service. Active participant in the Civil War. From 1918 to 1926, was in command and political positions in the Red Army. For courage and heroism in battle, was awarded the Order of the Red Banner” (source: http://svr.gov.ru/).
In 1926 – on party work: party secretary “Krasny hero”, a member of the Moscow City Party Committee, the delegate XVI Congress of the CPSU (b). In 1929, he enrolled to study at the Institute of Red Professors.
In 1931, the recommended work to foreign intelligence and in the autumn of that year sent on a ‘business trip’ to England.
In 1937 he went on a ‘business trip’ to the U.S., where he successfully worked in the Washington residency until 1940. Kukin was, of course actively involved in clandestine intelligence work and acquired extensive relationships and contacts of interest to foreign intelligence circles.
Before his residency in Washington, DC, Kukin was assigned the important task of “the extraction of secret information about the U.S. administration’s position on major international issues” (source: Kukin Konstantin http://svr.gov.ru/history/ku.htm).
Colonel Kukin for “ensuring public safety was honored with the Order of Lenin, two Orders of the Red Banner, Order of the Patriotic War I or II, the Red Star and many other medals besides.
He died in “1979”, according to the report.