Anatoli Petrov
From The Stasi Files
Please remember that this is a fictional account, based on works of fiction
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Early Years
Anatoli Mikhailovich Petrov was born on the 17th of October 1928 in Leningrad and in the pre World War 2 years lived in the back streets behind Finlyandsky Station. His father, an engineer was a member of the pioneer regiment and is presumed MIA and Anatolis mother was killed by an aerial land-mine in late 1943. Anatoli, now an orphan, spent six months in the rubble of Leningrad before being sent to an orphanage in Vologda and once the war finished was relocated to an orphanage in Kiev. After two years at Kiev University, studying German and English, he was spotted and transferred to Moscow University and registered as officer candidate for the Red Army. In 1949, Anatoli was posted to the KGB training school in Samarkand and two years later he was posted to the Illegals Directorate of the First Chief Directorate. After three years of further training Anatoli was sent to Berlin with the responsibility of all KGB networks in West Berlin and West Germany. With the rank of KGB major, he was recalled to Moscow in February 1958 and by 1970, now a full colonel, he was responsible for operations in Britain.
Personal Relationships
In 1958, he married Maria Grazyna Felinska, a Polish woman from Krakow, a critic of the subservience of Russians to their bureaucracy and this despite his rank and his love for her, she was deemed a danger to them both. His KGB seniors advised that she would be sent to a labour camp unless they were divorced, so they divorced and Maria was repatriated to Warsaw. After he defected, he became involved with the 22 year old London based Irish national Siobhan Nolan, before she married Anatoli's SIS controller James Lawler. As a condition of his resuming his debriefing to the SIS was the extraction of his previous wife from East Berlin. This condition was achieved and they are now re-united and re-married under new identities.
George Blake
Petrov was the controller of George Blake during Blakes' Berlin years and later when he was stationed in London. Their successes included the betrayal of the Berlin Tunnel which was a huge Soviet propaganda victory. Petrov put a pill in Blakes coffee after the escape, which drugged him before giving the final lethal injection when Blake was knocked out. Together with Dyer, they jointly buried Blake in the garden of a house in Edenbridge, Kent.
Defection
After Anatoli felt that his career prospects were irretrievably damaged, he started making tentative approaches to the SIS in West Berlin. After 6 months of tentative negotiations he defected during a trip to Amsterdam. The SIS arranged plastic surgery and with that Anatoli began his debriefing. Once his debriefing was satisfactory completed, Anatoli and his wife, moved to a Sussex village and lived off the proceeds from their tobacconists' shop they owned in Bexhill and Hastings Through his love of the TV programme Coronation Street, Anatoli has developed slightly an accent and speech mannerism of the show, thus helping his assimilation into Britain. Whilst defected Anatoli took the opportunity to see his favourite team Moscow Dynamo beat Aresnal 2-1 at Highbury
References
ISBN 0583134866 Shadow of Shadows by Ted Allbeury
Locations
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