Assassination Mission
In 1954, Khokhlov was sent by the KGB to supervise two other men whose task was to kill George Okolovich, a chairman of the National Alliance of Russian Solidarists. He decided not to follow the order and discussed the situation with his wife,Yana; she said, "If this man is killed, you will be a murderer. I cannot be the wife of a murderer." Khokhlov went to Okolovich's flat in Frankfurt and told him: "Georgi Sergeevich, I have come to you from Moscow. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union has ordered your assassination. The murder is entrusted to my group... I can’t let this murder happen." His wife was arrested and sentenced to five years of involuntary settlement in the Soviet Union, in retaliation.
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