Granovsky, after working in eastern Europe, was reassigned a new cover as a member of the Merchant Navy in summer 1946. In Odessa Granovsky had been approached by the MGB, successor to the NKVD, and asked to be their spy aboard the ship Petrodvorets, with which he would rendezvous in Stockholm after traveling aboard another ship. On July 10, 1946, Granovsky arrived in Stockholm. On July 21, he slipped away from his colleagues in a crowd and went to see the assistant U.S. Military Attache. Because he could not speak English and the American could not speak Russian, they went to the supervisory Military Attache, a colonel who spoke German (in which Granovsky was experienced). The Americans refused to grant Granovsky asylum and he was arrested by Swedish authorities. On November 8, 1946, shortly before he was to be repatriated to Soviet authorities, which was a veritable death sentence, Granovsky was granted asylum by King Gustaf V of Sweden. Granovsky wrote his memoirs under the title All Pity Choked [London 1955], but later paperback editions were published under the title I Was An NKVD Agent. After moving to the United States, he died in Washington, D.C., in September 1974 at the age of 52. See also List of Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc defectors References Granovski, A. (1982). I Was an NKVD Agent – A top Soviet spy tells his story. Torrance, CA: Diane Books Publishing Co. 1922 births 1974 deaths Gulag detainees Russian anti-communists Russian autobiographers Swedish anti-communists Soviet military personnel of World War II Soviet defectors to the United States