In 1921 , Fedotov joined the new Soviet security organization , the Cheka . He first served in the local Cheka/GPU/OGPU offices . In 1937 , he was moved to the NKVD Moscow Headquarters , known as Lubyanka , and was put in charge of one of the '' Secret Political Department '' Sections in the Main Directorate of State Security of the NKVD . Between 1939 and 1941 , he was the head of the GUGB 2nd Department ( '' SPO '' ) . In 1940 , he took part in the killing of Polish prisoners of war – the Katyn massacre . In 1941 , after the creation of the People 's Commissariat for State Security ( NKGB ) , he became the head of the 2nd Directorate , responsible for counterintelligence . He personally signed a document of an interrogation on October 20 , 1942 sending/placing in a gulag for 5 years a famous polish actor Eugene Bodo ( Eugeniusz Junod ) who died in Kotlas in 1943 , due to poor conditions therein ( Russian red cross document from 1992 ) . Then in 1946 , after the People 's Commissariat for State Security was renamed the Ministry for State Security ( Ministerstvo Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti ) or MGB , Fedotov became the head of its '' 1st Directorate '' , responsible for foreign intelligence . When the Committee of Information was established in 1947 , he was put in charge of foreign intelligence as the deputy chairman under Vyacheslav Molotov and then under Andrey Vyshinsky . In March 1953 , he was moved to the Ministry of Internal Affairs ( MVD ) and took over its 1st Chief Directorate ( counterintelligence ) . He took over the same position in the newly created KGB , but as the head of the 2nd Chief Directorate ( counterintelligence ) , of which he was in charge until 1956 . In May 1956 , he started working at the KGB school as deputy head of one of the departments
Katyn massacre
Katyn massacre
Pyotr Fedotov