Education
University of Michigan. University of Virginia.
Biysk Teachers Chief of Soviet Counterintelligence
University of Michigan. University of Virginia.
He started working for the Central Intelligence Agency, went to graduate school, and wrote several books on the Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security). He died in 1992 at age 71. He went to Biysk Teachers College as well as the Institute for Marxism-Leninism. In World World War II he was wounded four times and reassigned to the Soviet Navy"s SMERSH (military counterintelligence group).
He was later an investigator in State Security.
He eventually moved up to the Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) headquarters. In 1953 he was stationed in Vienna, Austria as Chief of Soviet Counterintelligence as well as Communist Party boss for the entire Austro-German section.
In 1954 he defected to the United States. In retaliation, the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics gave him a death sentence.
He testified before the Senate and the HUAC in 1959, and cowrote a book about his time in the Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security). He also went to graduate school at the University of Michigan and the University of Virginia.
He also joined the Central Intelligence Agency. A few days after the assassination of President Kennedy, Deriabin wrote a lengthy memorandum for the Central Intelligence Agency. In it he theorized that Oswald was a Russian Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) agent who either was dispatched to kill Kennedy or was sent to the United States on a different mission and then committed the assassination on his own. Among them was removing the West"s preeminent cold warrior from the scene. Constraining United States covert actions against Cuba, which would be stigmatized as acts of vengeance.
And divert the Russian people"s attentions from their many domestic problems.
He was also involved in the Yuri Nosenko case, a controversial Russian defector who was treated harshly by the Central Intelligence Agency (including solitary confinement) and presumed to be a Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) plant for at least a year before he was released. Deriabin was one of the Central Intelligence Agency officials who believed he was a plant.
He claimed that the details of Nosenko"s stories about his experiences in SMERSH and the Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) didn"t match up with Deriabin"s own experience in those agencies. Deriabin retired from the Central Intelligence Agency in 1981.
At the time of his death he was survived by family members whose names were kept secret by the Central Intelligence Agency.
He was a member of the Communist Party.
