Continuing with 'Surprise,Kill, Vanish' By Annie Jacobson

... Through the 1950's, the president’s advisors continued to see the Soviets as the cause of anti-American acts and sentiment they could otherwise not explain. At the same time, Moscow remained hyper focused on controlling the public’s perception of communism. From 1954 onward, the CIA believed that the Kremlin was behind the recent spate of émigré kidnappings and assassinations in Eastern Europe. Too many community leaders who’d spoken out against the Soviet Union were winding up disappeared or dead. For the most part this was speculative. If only the CIA had hard evidence. The hit-and-run ambushes were brazen and bold, often occurring in broad daylight on city streets. Finally, in 1954, the CIA got the evidence it was looking for in the strange case of KGB assassin Captain Nikolai Evgenievich Khokhlov.

Captain Khokhlov was a shy man, quiet and unassuming. His first career, before the Second World War, was as a theatrical performer. His special talent was whistling. Now here he was, standing in a hallway in Frankfurt, Germany, a KGB assassin on a mission to kill. It was April 1954, and everything in Khokhlov’s life was about to change.

He rang the doorbell above a small nameplate that read GEORGIY SERGEYEVICH OKOLOVICH. Russian by birth, Okolovich was an outspoken anti-Soviet émigré and chief of operations of the Popular Labor Alliance of Russian Solidarists, a virulently anti-communist group in West Germany. The door opened. The two men stood face-to-face.

“Georgiy Sergeyevich?” Khokhlov asked.

“Da,” said the man, “Yes, I am he.”

“I have come to you from Moscow,” Khokhlov stated. “The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union has ordered your assassination. The murder is entrusted to my group. I cannot let this murder happen.”
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