Anatoli Yakovlev

Anatoli A. Yakovlev (whose real name was was Yatskov) General Counsul of the Soviet Union's legation in New York City in the 1940s. His diplomatic role was a cover for his true activities as an NKVD agent which were to head of the Soviet spy network in the United States during the 1940s until his return to the Soviet Union in 1946.. He collaborated with Harry Gold, who stole industrial formulas from Pennsylvania Sugar Company, and Soviet Union spy-master Alexander Feklisov in the infiltration of the United States' Manhattan Project by having Gold liase with scientist Karl Fuchs. He also allegedly was the handler of Julius Rosenberg and was originally included in the indictment against the Rosenbergs, Morton Sobell and David Greenglass however, Yakovlev was excluded from the indictment due to diplomatic immunity and had, in any case, returned to the USSR four years prior to the indictment.

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