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In 1941, after the start of the German-Soviet war, Kopazky attended a Soviet training school for agents of the People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs.
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Igor Kopatzky
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A.k.a. Igor Orlov, Aleksandr Navratilov, Calvus. His Soviet code names were Erwin, Herbert and Richard. In October 1943 he was on a parachute jump over occupied Kresy where the German Wehrmacht arrested him and he was taken prisoner of war.
From 1944 he acted as an agent of the Department of Foreign Armies against the Red Army in Vlasov.
In 1945, he came into American captivity and came into contact with the Gehlen Organization, which he was recruited into by 1948. From 1949 Kopazky was recruited by the Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) and became one of its most important double agents.
The Central Intelligence Agency sent him to Berlin in 1951 under the name Franz Koischwitz. He was officially shut down in late 1951 as an agent, but still kept his jobs.
On 7 November 1951 he kidnapped the Estonian Central Intelligence Agency agent Vladimir Kivi from West Berlin to East Berlin on behalf of the Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security). In 1954, with the help of the Central Intelligence Agency, he changed his name to Igor Orlov.
In 1957 he attended agent training in the United States of America and was reinstated in 1958 to Europe. In 1960 he was transferred back to the United States.
As a result of the defection of the former Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) agent Anatoliy Golitsyn, the Federal Bureau of Investigation sought Kopazky, who was suspected of being the Soviet mole, ″Sasha″ (later disproved). After a house search in 1965, he fled for a short time in the Soviet consulate.
He refused a flight to the Soviet Union, however, and remained in the United States.
