SOVIET INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY LT GEN E. P. PITOVRANOV

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• Document Creation Date: June 22, 2015
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• Case Number: F-2008-00388
• Publication Date: July 23, 1958

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Date of Information: Hay 1955 - April 1956
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SOVIET InTELTIGENCE AND SECURITY
Lt Gen E.P. PITOVRANOV
1. INTRODUCTION
1. This report, based on information available from this source
as of. 22 Jul 58, i? one of a series..on senior. ffii.l.a.tary intelligence
and PGB officers in East Germany.
II. BAC[iGR____
2. Full Name: Evgenii ("Zhenya") Petrovich
Rank:
OM FROM
CAB FILES.
Assignment: 'Chief KGB Residentura, EERLIN, and
concurrently, Senior Counsellor at the
Soviet Embassy, BE_R.tJN.
Date of Birth: Estimated between 1910 - 1915.
Residence in USSR:MOSCOW (Tel No K-4. 1751)
Children: Daughter (first name possibly Gavrilova).
There were other children in the household
in M MN but it is not certain whether they
were FCTOVRANOV's children or grandchildren
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 Other Relatives: Dr Natalya Vasil'evna PETOVA, probably
PITOVRANO tPITOVRANOV's sister-in-law. (This relation-
ship was not conclusively established but is based on her sharing the same patronymic
with his wife, and a request by PITOVRANOV
to his wife, after a family conversation,
to "kiss Natalya and Mama for me' on U
Mar 56 PITOVRANOV booked a private telephone
call to Dr PRTROVA of the; "First Surgical
Section" of a hospital in MOSCOW, Tel No
K-6 8974.; (the only N. V. T =OVA listed in
the 1954- edition of the MOSCOW Telephone
Directory resided at 6, Shohusova Ulitsa
Tel No K-4 6696).
Education and
Accent:
No information is available from source
material on PITOVRANOV's educational'
backiound other than that he speaks as a
well-educated man with a Great Russian (gOSCOW)
accent.
III. OTHER PERSONAL PARTICULARS
5. Details of Family:
Mme PITOVRANOV's rather listless and apathetic manner during
her telephone conversations gave the impression that she was either
a sick person or one of negative personality. She seemed unable to
raise any enthusiasm when appealed to by bar. husband on 20 Oct 55, to
fly back from MOSCOW to BERLIN on'the following day. She agreed
only after much prompting, despite the fact that her younger children
(or possibly grandchildren) appeared to be in Germany. (Her react}on
may have arisen from the fact that she had just suffered the loss of
her mother, Rlizaveta Ivanovna (snu), who died on 17 Oct 55).
x'ITOVRANOVA:was noticeably apathetic, however, in a Febr Uy 1956
discussion with a staff officer of Marshal A., 0 CinC, CSF~G)
on the question of certain domestic transac ions for Mme CRECHKO.
6. Mme PITOVRANOV was in LOSCOW again in December 1955'and flew
back to B'CRbIN with her granddaughter on the 24th or 25th of that
month. On 10 Jan 56 she flew again to MOSCOW, this time with her
daughter, and possibly granddaughter, but was present in BERLIN on
23? Feb 56 when she attended the Red Army Day reception at' the Soviet-
Embassy.
7. An exact identification of the junior members of the family
was not possible from the few passing references available in source-
material. 117TOVRANOV once said, in answer to his wife's telephpac
enquiry from MOSCOW, that "the children are doing their lessons" and-
mentioned "Serezha" (Sergei) by name. Other references to a daughter
and granddaughter, however, made in connection with bookings of plane
flights, leave the question open as to whether they were in fact
FITOVRA,NOV's children or grandchildren.
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 8. Recreations: Shooting, fishing, and tennis.
IV. CUAR .CTis'R AND EFFICIP kCY
9. There is evidence that PITOVRANOV was quick and incisive
when making decisions and was esteemed as a man who backs up his
subordinates. If it is assumed that the efficiency of his unit
reflected his own capabilities, then on at least one occasion he was
awarded a considerable compliment by a military intelligence colonel
who had recourse to PITOVRANOV and his organization for help with an
operation.
10. Col IL G. B&LOV (Chief of an element in BNRLIN subordinate to
the Intell' once Directorate, HQ, GSFG) approached the I