Nikolai Khokhlov

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Nikolai Khokhlov
Khokhlov at U.S. Senate Internal Security Subcommittee in 1954
Born	7 June 1922 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Died	17 September 2007 (aged 85) San Bernardino, California, U.S.
Occupation	KGB spy

Nikolai Yevgenievich Khokhlov (

Nikolai Khoklov was born in 1922, in

His stepfather, a lawyer, volunteered to defend Moscow in 1941 and died in action almost immediately. As Khokhlov later put it, "The army needed cannon fodder".^[1]

NKVD career

In October 1941, Khokhlov, then 19 years old, was a member of an

Nikolai Khokhlov was a member of a successful military unit that fought behind the enemy lines during World War II. He was disguised as a Nazi officer after parachuting into German-occupied Belarus. He played a part in the assassination of Wilhelm Kube, the Nazi Gauleiter of Belarus. After the war, Khokhlov became the prototype for the main character in a 1947 Soviet film, Feat of a Scout ("Подвиг разведчика").

Assassination mission

In 1954, Khokhlov was sent by the

Poisoning by thallium

Khokhlov was treated for

After graduating with a PhD from Duke University, Khokhlov taught undergraduate and graduate psychology classes at California State University, San Bernardino from 1968 to 1992. He retired as a professor emeritus in 1993.

In the United States, Khokhlov married again. With his second wife Tanya, he had two daughters and a son, Misha, who died several years later due to a kidney failure.^[10]

In 1992, Russian President Boris Yeltsin pardoned Khokhlov. The same year he returned to Moscow for a short stay, for the first time since the 1950s.^[11] He later made an e-mail contact with, then eventually met, his son in Russia of whom he had not been previously aware.

Nikolai Khokhlov died of a heart attack in San Bernardino, California, in September 2007. He was buried next to the grave of his son.

See also

• Alexander Litvinenko poisoning
• List of Eastern Bloc defectors

References

Books

• Nikolai Evgenievich Khokhlov. In the name of conscience . Translated by Emily Kingsbery. New York : David McKay, 1959. In the name of conscience (Russian)
• Boris Volodarsky. Nikolai Khokhlov ("Whistler"), Self-Esteem with a Halo . Vienna-London : Borwall Verlag, 2005. (English)

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