Nikolai Khokhlov  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  (Redirected from Nikolay Khokhlov) Jump to: navigation, search
Nikolai Evgenievich Khokhlov (Cyrillic: Николай Евгеньевич
Хохлов) (7 June 1922, Nizhny Novgorod - September 2007 San
Bernardino, California) was a KGB officer who defected to the
United States in 1953. He testified about KGB activities. The
KGB tried to kill him unsuccessfully using poison.  Family
background[edit]  Khokhlov's parents divorced when he was very
young; he was not well-acquainted with his father, who later
served as a commissar in the Red Army. During the Battle for
Moscow, the elder Khokhlov was transferred to a penal battalion
because he had made unfavourable remarks about Joseph Stalin.
Khokhlov's father died in the battalion.  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[edit]  In October 1941,
Khokhlov, then 19 years old, was member of an N