Intelligence Career
According to his recently released secret British MI5 file, Petrov stated during his post-defection interviewing that his intelligence career was as follows:
- 1929-1933 Cypher clerk Soviet Navy.
- 1933-1938 N.K.V.D. Moscow dealing with overseas cypher communications.
- 1939 N.K.V.D. cypher clerk attached to Soviet Army Western China.
- 1940-1942 N.K.V.D. cypher clerk Moscow dealing with Internal communications.
- 1942-1947 N.K.V.D. cypher clerk Sweden with additional Internal Security duties.
- 1947-1951 M.G.B. Moscow dealing with seamen on the Danube.
- 1951-1954 M.G.B. controller in Australia.
Petrov also gave information about the defection of Burgess and Mclean. Their escape had been handled by Kislitsyn an M.G.B. officer who was in Australia when Petrov defected in 1954. Petrov also disclosed that Burgess and McLean were living in Kuibyshev in 1954. (National Archives Reference:kv/2/3440)
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