Konstantin Jeffremov, aliases Erland Jernström (1939-1942 in Belgium), Hofmann (July 1942) PAUL, PASCAL, BORDO and MANOLO (?).
R.U. agent who may have been active in western Europe at least since 1936, when he may have recruited Franz and Germaine Schneider in Belgium, on behalf of Henri Robinson. His activities at that time were, therefore, probably directed at least in part against the U.K.
Nothing is known about his movement between 1937 and 1938.
In September 1939 he arrived in Brussels from Zurich in the pose of a Finish student name Jernström. His pre-war intelligence function was alleged to have been the collection of technical information on chemicals and he may have been intended to operate quite independently of Robinson and other R.U. agents in Western-Europe, but on the outbreak of war he was instructed to build up a network in the Low Countries for the collection of military, political and economic intelligence and to utilise the services of his former recruits, the Schneiders and of Wenzel, whom he may also have known previously.
Wenzel may not have established a WT service on Jeffremov's behalf with Moscow until the end of 1940, when contact was probably made through Winterinck. However during 1940 Jeffremov may have used the service of an WT operator in Ostend.
In January 1942, under R.U. instructions, following Makarov's arrest, Jeffremov met Trepper at the Schneider's house in Brussels and took over the Low Countries network of Gurevich, serviced by Wenzel's WT link from May (1942) until the latter's arrest on 30th June, 1942.
This new task entailed the transmission to Moscow of Schulze-Boysen' s material. Unless Sesee went into action, Jeffremov was probably dependent in Winterinck for WT communications until May.
Around 30-07-1942 Jeffremov attended a rendez-vous with Rajchmann at Trepper's request, to obatain false identity papers; as a result of German penetration, Jeffremov was arrested at this rendez-vous.
Before the outbreak of war, Jeffremov is siad to have had a link in Switzerland in the person of a German-emigre, cover-name CHIMOR.
Address.
128 Rue St. Bernard, St. Gilles, Brussels (1939).
Personal particulars.
Nationality: USSR citizen.
Date of birth: 15-05-1910 in Sawotzki, Russia.
Documents: Finnish passport No. 20268, issued in New York on 22-06-1933 in the name of Erland
Jernström, born 03-11-1911 in Vasa, Finland.
Description: slim build, round shoulders, fair hair, thinning. Blue eyes, high forehead, wide snub nose.
Thin lips. Speaks Russian, German, French and English.
Occupation: Soviet Army Captain, chemical warfare expert and engineer.
History.
May have held a Army post in the Far East before taking intelligence course in Moscow.
Was probably in Belgium in 1936.
Entered Belgium on 06-03-1939 from Zurich as Jernström, to study chemistry at Polytechnic School, Rue de Londres, Brussels.
In July 1942 Following Wenzel's arrest, Schneider asked Ernst Bomerson to hide Jeffremov in his house in 25 Rue Alfred Orban, Forest, introducing Jeffremov as "Hofman".
Was arrested by the end of July 1942, before he had the time to move into Bomerson's house.
Apparently offered little resistance and was trained for penetration and WT play-back almost immediately by the Germans. Was responsible for Winterinck's arrest.
From October 1942 he operated the WT line "Buche-Pascal" to Moscow under control, being held in Breendonck Prison Camp until April 1944, when he was moved to Paris. There he was housed with Gurevich in 63 Rue de Courcelles, but they were not permitted to associate. the transmitter was run from Paris from July 1944.
Jeffremov was taken to Berlin around 10-08-1944. the play-back continued from Schupo HQ in Schöniche, near Potsdam.
Ultimate fate unknown.
Source: KV3/350.
Konstantin Lukitsch Jeffremov (* 15 May 1910) also known as Konstantin Yeffremov was a Soviet GRU captain, anti-Semite and expert in chemical warfare. He was organizer of a Soviet espionage network in the Netherlands and the Low Countries that was largely independent of other Soviet espionage networks that were operating in the area. Jeffremov had code name of Pascal and had been working for Soviet intelligence since 1936. In 1942, Jeffremov took over the running of a number of networks in Belgium, that had been damaged in the months prior, after several members were arrested by the Abwehr. This was later identified by the Abwehr as the Red Orchestra. Jeffremov was arrested in July 1942 and agreed to work for the Abwehr in a Funkspiel operation after being tortured.
After completing seven years of schooling including attending the Labor Faculty in Tula, he attended the Moscow Chemical Technical College. In 1937, he finished the academy with the title of military technician with the rank of First lieutenant (Russian:Starshy leytenant) and started to work in the GRU, dealing primarily with military technical reconnaissance. Jeffremov, a relative newcomer to a professional career in espionage, had been subject to accelerated training. In September 1939 Jeffremov using the alias Eric Jernström, arrived in Brussels from Zurich via Budapest and Odessa, travelling as Finnish student who had enrolled in the École Polytechnique to study chemistry. During the late interwar period, he was likely employed in the collection of technical information regarding chemical and chemistry.
With the outbreak of World War II, Jeffremov was tasked with organising various disparate groups in the Low Countries, into an espionage network to collect political, economic and military intelligence. Jeffremov immediately made contact with Johann Wenzel, a German communist and radio specialist based in the Netherlands,[2] who would act in the role of technical advisor to Jeffremov. Wenzel had recruited the Communist Party member Anton Winterink at the beginning of 1939 and later, also recruited Daan Goulooze, the director of the Dutch Communist party. Both would become part of Jeffremov's network in Brussels. In 1938, Winterink had established an network in 1938, that was part of the Rote Hilfe that would be used by Jeffremov, in the capacity as his supervisor. Winterink was trained as a radio operator by Wenzel.
At the same time he recruited the married couple, Belgian Germaine Schneider and Swiss Franz Schneider. The couple were Comintern agents who has been working for Soviet intelligence since late 1936. Prior to that they had been running safe-houses for the persecuted Comintern officials. Germaine Schneider was the most important of the two, working as a courier that involved extensive travel across Europe and was Henry Robinson's contact to Soviet agents in Great Britain. While she worked from Jeffremov, she couriered between Brussels and Paris. Franz Schneider was also a courier, but only to Switzerland.
Although Jeffremov initially used the Dutch Communist Party to transmit intelligence to Soviet intelligence, by December 1940, Wenzel had established a connection to Moscow. Jeffremov ran his espionage network independently of other Soviet networks in the Netherlands during 1940 and 1941.
In May 1942, Jeffremov met with Leopold Trepper in the house of the Schneider's in Brussels. Trepper was the technical director of a Soviet Red Army Intelligence in western Europe and had been instructed by Soviet intelligence to employ Jeffremov as the new leader of the Belgian network, in the absence of Anatoly Gurevich who had run the network in Belgium from July 1940 to December 1941. It had been severely damaged when several members of the group had been arrested, as part of an Funkabwehr raid on a house on Rue des Atrébates on the 12 December 1941, that was being used a transmitting safe-house. Gurevich himself had hid in the house of Nazarin Drailly, a member of the group, to evade the Abwehr, before leaving for Paris. Trepper gave Jeffremov 100,000 Belgian francs for daily expenses and made several recommendations on how the network should be run, which Jeffremov accepted. Trepper had ordered all radio transmission to cease for at least six months and to rely on couriers only to deliver intelligence.Probably the most important aspect of Jeffremov's work was the continued transmission of the intelligence provided by Harro Schulze-Boysen, that was couriered from Germany. According to Daniël Goulooze, Jeffremov was in communication with Soviet Intelligence via Wenzel since 1940 and on an infrequent basis.
After six months, Trepper ordered Jeffremov to begin transmitting as six months had passed since the raid on Rue des Atrébates. On 30 July 1942, the Funkabwehr identified a house at 12 Rue de Namur, Brussels and arrested Wenzel. Wenzel was subjected to enhanced interrogation and eventually confessed. He agreed to collaborate and exposed several members of the Belgian network.
Rajchmann in turn betrayed Jeffremov, who was arrested on 22 July 1942 in Brussels, while attempting to obtain the forged identity papers for himself. Jeffremov was to be tortured but agreed to cooperate and gave up several important members of the espionage network in Belgium and the Netherlands. In the Netherlands, he exposed Anton Winterink, who was arrested on 26 July 1942 by Abwehr officer Harry Piepe. Winterink was taken to Brussels, where he confessed after two weeks of enhanced interrogation.
Through Jeffremov, contact was made with Germaine Schneider.
Jeffremov (sources vary) also exposed Simexco to the Abwehr. Simexco a cover company that was used by the Trepper network in Belgium to disguise its espionage activities. At the same time, Jeffremov exposed the name and the existence of the Trepper espionage network in France.
However, Schneider decided to contact Leopold Trepper, the technical director of a Soviet Red Army Intelligence in western Europe. Trepper advised Schneider to sever all contact with Jeffremov and move to a hideout in Lyons. Giering instead focused on Germaine Schneider's husband Franz Schneider. In November 1942, Franz Schneider was interrogated by Giering but as he was not part of the network he wasn't arrested and managed to inform Trepper that Jeffremov has been arrested.
Eventually Jeffremov began to work for the Sonderkommando Rote Kapelle in a Funkspiel operation.
Source: Wikipedia.
w.mugge@home.nl
R.U. agent who may have been active in western Europe at least since 1936, when he may have recruited Franz and Germaine Schneider in Belgium, on behalf of Henri Robinson. His activities at that time were, therefore, probably directed at least in part against the U.K.
Nothing is known about his movement between 1937 and 1938.
In September 1939 he arrived in Brussels from Zurich in the pose of a Finish student name Jernström. His pre-war intelligence function was alleged to have been the collection of technical information on chemicals and he may have been intended to operate quite independently of Robinson and other R.U. agents in Western-Europe, but on the outbreak of war he was instructed to build up a network in the Low Countries for the collection of military, political and economic intelligence and to utilise the services of his former recruits, the Schneiders and of Wenzel, whom he may also have known previously.
Wenzel may not have established a WT service on Jeffremov's behalf with Moscow until the end of 1940, when contact was probably made through Winterinck. However during 1940 Jeffremov may have used the service of an WT operator in Ostend.
In January 1942, under R.U. instructions, following Makarov's arrest, Jeffremov met Trepper at the Schneider's house in Brussels and took over the Low Countries network of Gurevich, serviced by Wenzel's WT link from May (1942) until the latter's arrest on 30th June, 1942.
This new task entailed the transmission to Moscow of Schulze-Boysen' s material. Unless Sesee went into action, Jeffremov was probably dependent in Winterinck for WT communications until May.
Around 30-07-1942 Jeffremov attended a rendez-vous with Rajchmann at Trepper's request, to obatain false identity papers; as a result of German penetration, Jeffremov was arrested at this rendez-vous.
Before the outbreak of war, Jeffremov is siad to have had a link in Switzerland in the person of a German-emigre, cover-name CHIMOR.
Address.
128 Rue St. Bernard, St. Gilles, Brussels (1939).
Personal particulars.
Nationality: USSR citizen.
Date of birth: 15-05-1910 in Sawotzki, Russia.
Documents: Finnish passport No. 20268, issued in New York on 22-06-1933 in the name of Erland
Jernström, born 03-11-1911 in Vasa, Finland.
Description: slim build, round shoulders, fair hair, thinning. Blue eyes, high forehead, wide snub nose.
Thin lips. Speaks Russian, German, French and English.
Occupation: Soviet Army Captain, chemical warfare expert and engineer.
History.
May have held a Army post in the Far East before taking intelligence course in Moscow.
Was probably in Belgium in 1936.
Entered Belgium on 06-03-1939 from Zurich as Jernström, to study chemistry at Polytechnic School, Rue de Londres, Brussels.
In July 1942 Following Wenzel's arrest, Schneider asked Ernst Bomerson to hide Jeffremov in his house in 25 Rue Alfred Orban, Forest, introducing Jeffremov as "Hofman".
Was arrested by the end of July 1942, before he had the time to move into Bomerson's house.
Apparently offered little resistance and was trained for penetration and WT play-back almost immediately by the Germans. Was responsible for Winterinck's arrest.
From October 1942 he operated the WT line "Buche-Pascal" to Moscow under control, being held in Breendonck Prison Camp until April 1944, when he was moved to Paris. There he was housed with Gurevich in 63 Rue de Courcelles, but they were not permitted to associate. the transmitter was run from Paris from July 1944.
Jeffremov was taken to Berlin around 10-08-1944. the play-back continued from Schupo HQ in Schöniche, near Potsdam.
Ultimate fate unknown.
Source: KV3/350.
Konstantin Lukitsch Jeffremov (* 15 May 1910) also known as Konstantin Yeffremov was a Soviet GRU captain, anti-Semite and expert in chemical warfare. He was organizer of a Soviet espionage network in the Netherlands and the Low Countries that was largely independent of other Soviet espionage networks that were operating in the area. Jeffremov had code name of Pascal and had been working for Soviet intelligence since 1936. In 1942, Jeffremov took over the running of a number of networks in Belgium, that had been damaged in the months prior, after several members were arrested by the Abwehr. This was later identified by the Abwehr as the Red Orchestra. Jeffremov was arrested in July 1942 and agreed to work for the Abwehr in a Funkspiel operation after being tortured.
After completing seven years of schooling including attending the Labor Faculty in Tula, he attended the Moscow Chemical Technical College. In 1937, he finished the academy with the title of military technician with the rank of First lieutenant (Russian:Starshy leytenant) and started to work in the GRU, dealing primarily with military technical reconnaissance. Jeffremov, a relative newcomer to a professional career in espionage, had been subject to accelerated training. In September 1939 Jeffremov using the alias Eric Jernström, arrived in Brussels from Zurich via Budapest and Odessa, travelling as Finnish student who had enrolled in the École Polytechnique to study chemistry. During the late interwar period, he was likely employed in the collection of technical information regarding chemical and chemistry.
With the outbreak of World War II, Jeffremov was tasked with organising various disparate groups in the Low Countries, into an espionage network to collect political, economic and military intelligence. Jeffremov immediately made contact with Johann Wenzel, a German communist and radio specialist based in the Netherlands,[2] who would act in the role of technical advisor to Jeffremov. Wenzel had recruited the Communist Party member Anton Winterink at the beginning of 1939 and later, also recruited Daan Goulooze, the director of the Dutch Communist party. Both would become part of Jeffremov's network in Brussels. In 1938, Winterink had established an network in 1938, that was part of the Rote Hilfe that would be used by Jeffremov, in the capacity as his supervisor. Winterink was trained as a radio operator by Wenzel.
At the same time he recruited the married couple, Belgian Germaine Schneider and Swiss Franz Schneider. The couple were Comintern agents who has been working for Soviet intelligence since late 1936. Prior to that they had been running safe-houses for the persecuted Comintern officials. Germaine Schneider was the most important of the two, working as a courier that involved extensive travel across Europe and was Henry Robinson's contact to Soviet agents in Great Britain. While she worked from Jeffremov, she couriered between Brussels and Paris. Franz Schneider was also a courier, but only to Switzerland.
Although Jeffremov initially used the Dutch Communist Party to transmit intelligence to Soviet intelligence, by December 1940, Wenzel had established a connection to Moscow. Jeffremov ran his espionage network independently of other Soviet networks in the Netherlands during 1940 and 1941.
In May 1942, Jeffremov met with Leopold Trepper in the house of the Schneider's in Brussels. Trepper was the technical director of a Soviet Red Army Intelligence in western Europe and had been instructed by Soviet intelligence to employ Jeffremov as the new leader of the Belgian network, in the absence of Anatoly Gurevich who had run the network in Belgium from July 1940 to December 1941. It had been severely damaged when several members of the group had been arrested, as part of an Funkabwehr raid on a house on Rue des Atrébates on the 12 December 1941, that was being used a transmitting safe-house. Gurevich himself had hid in the house of Nazarin Drailly, a member of the group, to evade the Abwehr, before leaving for Paris. Trepper gave Jeffremov 100,000 Belgian francs for daily expenses and made several recommendations on how the network should be run, which Jeffremov accepted. Trepper had ordered all radio transmission to cease for at least six months and to rely on couriers only to deliver intelligence.Probably the most important aspect of Jeffremov's work was the continued transmission of the intelligence provided by Harro Schulze-Boysen, that was couriered from Germany. According to Daniël Goulooze, Jeffremov was in communication with Soviet Intelligence via Wenzel since 1940 and on an infrequent basis.
After six months, Trepper ordered Jeffremov to begin transmitting as six months had passed since the raid on Rue des Atrébates. On 30 July 1942, the Funkabwehr identified a house at 12 Rue de Namur, Brussels and arrested Wenzel. Wenzel was subjected to enhanced interrogation and eventually confessed. He agreed to collaborate and exposed several members of the Belgian network.
Rajchmann in turn betrayed Jeffremov, who was arrested on 22 July 1942 in Brussels, while attempting to obtain the forged identity papers for himself. Jeffremov was to be tortured but agreed to cooperate and gave up several important members of the espionage network in Belgium and the Netherlands. In the Netherlands, he exposed Anton Winterink, who was arrested on 26 July 1942 by Abwehr officer Harry Piepe. Winterink was taken to Brussels, where he confessed after two weeks of enhanced interrogation.
Through Jeffremov, contact was made with Germaine Schneider.
Jeffremov (sources vary) also exposed Simexco to the Abwehr. Simexco a cover company that was used by the Trepper network in Belgium to disguise its espionage activities. At the same time, Jeffremov exposed the name and the existence of the Trepper espionage network in France.
However, Schneider decided to contact Leopold Trepper, the technical director of a Soviet Red Army Intelligence in western Europe. Trepper advised Schneider to sever all contact with Jeffremov and move to a hideout in Lyons. Giering instead focused on Germaine Schneider's husband Franz Schneider. In November 1942, Franz Schneider was interrogated by Giering but as he was not part of the network he wasn't arrested and managed to inform Trepper that Jeffremov has been arrested.
Eventually Jeffremov began to work for the Sonderkommando Rote Kapelle in a Funkspiel operation.
Source: Wikipedia.
w.mugge@home.nl
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