Том Сообцоков, фюрер Северного Кавказа

Nov 06, 2014 01:41

Новость для меня...

...Soobzokov’s main mission was to recruit ex-Russians and ardent anti-Communists-people like him-who might be willing to spy on their former homeland for America. He was always on the verge of turning the next big Russian agent, or so he claimed. It was in the Middle East that Soobzokov had picked up his CIA code name: Nostril, an unflattering allusion to his prominent hooked nose...

...That back in the old country, he had become the Germans’ henchman in his village after Hitler's 1942 invasion. That he had turned on his own Circassian people. That he had worn the reviled Waffen SS uniform...
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/10/an-american-nazi-in-new-jersey/381917/

...his given name of Tscherim Soobzokov, or “Tom,” as the New Jersey politicos he had befriended called him; Sergei Zarevich, Kerim Lafsoka, or Abdel Karim Showabzoga, as some of his official papers identified him; the more American-sounding “Kenneth Desnew” on overseas spy trips for the CIA; and, of course, Nostril, his code name in agency files.

His accusers from the old country knew him by yet another name: the Fuhrer of the North Caucasus, some called him...

circassians

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