borne on him by the interrogations and imprisonment. NKVD Operations Anatoli Granovsky underwent numerous intensive trainings as an NKVD agent, and was assigned to the army as a cover, serving as an officer in Anti-Aircraft Defense in Moscow. During this time he worked as an NKVD counter-intelligence agent, reporting individuals for corruption or other misuse of State resources. He remained in Moscow during the German invasion of the USSR and met a young woman named Shura during the aftermath of a German bombing raid, quickly becoming infatuated with her. They began a relationship together, with Shura eventually revealed as a fellow NKVD agent. The relationship continued until Granovsky was informed of Shura's death. As the Soviets went on the offensive in the second half of the war, Granovsky was trained and prepared for an operation to provide false information to the Germans: He would parachute into German territory with other Russian soldiers and then (unbeknownst to his fellows) kill them, surrendering to the Germans as a disillusioned Russian defector, allowing him to deliver misinformation. The mission never occurred, and Granovsky instead worked with Soviet and Soviet-allied guerillas behind German lines in eastern Europe as an assassin and saboteur, causing havoc. In spring 1945, Granovsky was assigned to begin preparing to infiltrate the West after the end of World War II, particularly the United States, by posing as a refugee with his wife, an alcoholic restaurateur whom he was to seduce and marry. The woman was eventually deemed an unreliable liability and Granovsky was reassigned to the military front. When Berlin fell, Granovsky was one of the NKVD men who appropriated files and supplies from the Gestapo and other German agencies and sites, including the Reich Chancellery, transferring such resources back to Moscow and Kiev. Granovsky was appalled at the conditions he saw upon Germany's defeat, especially the treatment of both Germans and captured Russians and eastern Europeans at the hands of the triumphant Soviet military: Germans were beaten and raped and Soviet P.O.W.s were often tyrannized and sent to labour camps for surrendering during the course of the war. Post-World War II Granovsky was reassigned to appear as a sympathetic Soviet war veteran "fighter-poet" on tour in London, getting acquainted with the West and spreading pro-Soviet propaganda. Later, working in Prague, Granovsky was charged with helping ensure de-Nazification and the reliability of the local Communist Party and police apparatus. Defection