13 Facts About Nikolai Khokhlov

Nikolai Yevgenievich Khokhlov was a KGB officer who defected to the United States in 1954.

Nikolai Khokhlov was not well-acquainted with his father, who later served as a commissar in the Red Army.

In October 1941, Nikolai Khokhlov, then 19 years old, was a member of an NKVD quartet who were trained to commit a spectacular attack against Nazi officers during their victory celebration in the occupied Moscow.

Nikolai Khokhlov was chosen for his role on his whistling abilities.

Nikolai Khokhlov was a member of a successful military unit that fought behind the enemy lines during World War II.

Nikolai Khokhlov was disguised as a Nazi officer after parachuting into German-occupied Belarus.

Nikolai Khokhlov played a part in the assassination of Wilhelm Kube, the Nazi Gauleiter of Belarus.

In 1954, Nikolai Khokhlov was sent by the KGB to Frankfurt to supervise two men whose task was to kill Georgiy Okolovich, a chairman of the National Alliance of Russian Solidarists.

Nikolai Khokhlov was treated for thallium poisoning in Frankfurt in 1957, as a result of a failed assassination attempt by the Thirteenth Department of the KGB.

Former KGB officer Stanislav Lekarev claimed that Nikolai Khokhlov was poisoned by radioactive polonium, exactly as Litvinenko was.

Nikolai Khokhlov later made an e-mail contact with, then eventually met, his son in Russia of whom he had not been previously aware.

Nikolai Khokhlov died of a heart attack in San Bernardino, California, in September 2007.

Nikolai Khokhlov was buried next to the grave of his son.