Aleksander Kopatzky

Igor Orlov, Alexander Kopazky original name, (* 1923, † 1982) was a Soviet double agent, which was founded in 1961 by Anatoly Golitsyn unmasked. His Soviet code name was Erwin, Herbert and Richard.

Orlov was drafted in 1941 after the beginning of the German - Soviet war in a Soviet training school for agents of the NKVD. In October 1943 he was arrested after a parachute jump over occupied Kresy of the German army and was taken prisoner. From 1944 he was employed as an agent of the Department of Foreign Armies against the Red Army and was under the name Alexander ( Sascha ) Kopazky the Vlasov Army. In 1945 he went into American captivity, in which he came in contact with the Gehlen Organization.

Later he married Eleanor Stirner, the daughter of a former SS functionary.

Because fictional reports turned it the Gehlen organization in 1948 as an agent from, but was taken for further use by the CIA.

From 1949, the KGB recruited him as one of his most important double agents. The CIA sent him in 1951 under the name Franz Koischwitz by Greater Berlin. Again, he was officially shut down in late 1951 as an agent, but still continue to be employed. On November 7, 1951, he kidnapped on behalf of the Estonian KGB CIA agent Vladimir Kiwi from West Berlin to East Berlin. In 1954 he changed from camouflage with the help of the CIA in its name Igor Orlov. In 1957 he completed an agent training in the USA and has been used since 1958 in Europe again. In 1960 he was transferred back to the U.S..

As a result of the crossing of the former KGB agent Anatoliy Golitsyn tip and its statements that the FBI was investigating him. After a house search in 1965, he fled for a short time in the Soviet consulate. But since his wife refused a flight to the Soviet Union, he left them and remained in the United States.

Until his death in 1982 he lived there unmolested and was the owner of a gallery.

Primary source

• Helmut Roewer, Stefan Schäfer, Matthias Uhl: Encyclopedia of intelligence in the 20th Jahrhundert.Herbig, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-7766-2317-9.