279. Sipols, Tainy, 397.
280. Gavrilov, Voennaia razvedka informiruet, 617–8 (TsAMO, f. 23, op. 24127, d. 2, l. 340–1); Naumov, 1941 god, II: 175; Fesiun, Delo Rikharda Zorge, 116; Whymant, Stalin’s Spy, 146–7, citing Obi, Zoruge jiken, I: 248, 274. See also “Tiuremnye zapiski Rikharda Zorge.” Sorge’s messages via Clausen had not only to be decoded but translated from the German. Evidently, Sorge’s raw material, after being received at HQ in Moscow, was not always promptly processed and forwarded to the information (analytical) department.
281. Gavrilov, Voennaia razvedka informiruet, 627 (TsAMO, f. 23, op. 24127, d. 2, l. 381); Fesiun, Delo Rikharda Zorge, 117–8; Naumov, 1941 god, II: 252. Golikov wrote on the document: “ask ‘Ramsay,’ corps or armies?”
282. Fesiun, Delo Rikharda Zorge, 137–9 (Sudoplatov); Zhukov, “Iz neopublikovannykh vospominanii”; Zhukov, Vospominaniia, I: 380. At the time, Zhukov recalls, Stalin did not name the suspected double agent to him, but later Zhukov concluded it must have been Sorge. “Sorge’s tragedy,” Sudoplatov later surmised, “was that with the authorization of Artuzov, Uritsky, Berzin, Karin, and Borovich (his communications officer) he cooperated with German intelligence in Japan. This put him a position of less than full trust.” Fesiun, Delo Rikharda Zorge, 137.
283. Zhukov would later claim he was not informed by Stalin about the intelligence the regime was receiving. This was only partially true. Naumov, 1941 god, I: 378, 380. There is a story that during a showing to senior Soviet officers of a Franco-German film, Who Are You, Dr. Sorge? (1961), a retired Zhukov lost his composure, stood up in the cinema, and shouted out in the dark to Golikov, “Why did you at that time, Filipp Ivanovich, hide everything from me? Not report about such a document [Sorge’s report on an imminent German attack] to the chief of the general staff?” Golikov was said to have replied, “And what, should I have reported to you if this Sorge was a double, ours and theirs?” Vorob’ev, “Kazhdaia piad’ zemli,” 165–6. After Khrushchev saw the foreign film about Sorge, the story goes, he asked Mikoyan and then Soviet intelligence whether the USSR had had such an agent. A commission was formed under Kosygin and, posthumously, Sorge was awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union on Nov. 5, 1964; his paramour/wife in Japan, Hanako Ishii, began receiving a Soviet pension.
284. Back in 1937, when Zhukov had been stationed in the Belorussian military district, Golikov had been sent there as a member of its military council, evidently on assignment for Mekhlis to help annihilate the local military elite. Golikov accused Zhukov, among others, of friendship with enemies of the people, interrogated Zhukov over his associations, and built a dossier on him (his wife had had his daughter christened in a church; he treated his subordinates rudely). But one of Zhukov’s accusers, it seems, was arrested (“he dug a pit for another, but fell into it himself,” in the popular saying, Zhukov wrote). Suvenirov, Tragediia RKKA, 109; Spahr, Zhukov, 22–3.
285. This was partly based on having learned that transport of Far Eastern rubber to Germany via the Trans-Siberian Railroad was to be minimized. Gavrilov, Voennaia razvedka informiruet, 657–8 (TsAMO, f. 23, op. 24127, d. 2, l. 422); Fesiun, Delo Rikharda Zorge, 119–20; Naumov, 1941 god, II: 303–4.
286. Whymant, citing Sorge’s testimony to his Japanese captors, surmises that some or all of the messages were not transmitted to Moscow. For ex., Sorge claims to have told Moscow: “Lieutenant General Scholl conveyed clearly to Ambassador Ott, in total secrecy, that Germany and the USSR were finally to go to war and he should take the necessary measures; and he told me various details about it.” Whymant, Stalin’s Spy, 164–5, citing Obi, Zoruge jiken, III: 183.
287. Sorge added: “Scholl avers that the most powerful strike will be struck by the left flank of the German army.” Gavrilov, Voennaia razvedka informiruet, 658 (TsAMO, f. 23, op. 24127, d. 2, l. 424); Fesiun, Delo Rikharda Zorge, 119–20; Novoe vremia, 1990, no. 26: 32 (photocopy of the radiogram). Golikov asked for clarification on the nature of the “tactical mistake” and on Scholl’s revelation about a left flank strike. By the time Sorge would able to reply, it was July 3, 1941. Gavrilov, Voennaia razvedka informiruet, 714 (TsAMO, f. 23, op. 24127, d. 2, l. 527–9). Scholl had been a deputy military attaché in Tokyo (1938–1940).
