Early experience and recruitment by Soviet intelligence agencies
Jane Cernjak. Archive photos. The legendary Soviet agent Jan Cernjak remained unknown until his death in February 1995. He was born in North Bukovina, which belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire at that time, from 65438 to 0909. His father is a poor Jewish businessman and his mother is a Hungarian housewife. Both of them died in the First World War. Young, who grew up in an orphanage, is very talented. By the age of 0/6,/kloc-has been able to use six languages freely, including German, Yiddish, Hungarian, Romanian, Czech and Slovak. He graduated from high school with honors and was admitted to Prague Higher Technical School. 193 1 graduation. He also studied French and English in Prague and became an electrical engineer. In college, he was recruited by the Soviet military intelligence, and then served in the Romanian army, where he began to transmit top secret information to Moscow. Later, he returned to Germany again and established an intelligence network called "Krone".
The activities of "Krone"
In this network, Cernjak's informers are said to include big bankers, ministers' secretaries, the head of the research department of the Aviation Design Bureau, the daughter of the head of the Tank Design Bureau and senior military officials. Among the declassified intelligence personnel was Marika Roque, who was Hitler's favorite actress. Kk) and Olga Chekhova. Postwar operations: Russian veterans recalled that the informant who liberated Cernjak in the northeast of China got a plan of Barbarossa at 194 1 and a plan of the German attack on Kursk at 1943. When Moscow received the first information, it ignored the valuable materials sent by the spies. The second thick report helped the Soviet army to carefully prepare a devastating blow to the fascist army in the suburbs of Belgorod and Kursk, which became a decisive turning point in the Great Patriotic War. In addition, Cernjak also provided the Soviet Union with valuable technical information about German Tiger tanks, Leopard tanks and artillery, as well as information about jet weapons, "V- 1" and "V-2" missiles, chemical weapons and radio electronic devices. Gru's veterans say that Cernjak has established one of the best intelligence networks in history and has never failed in its fifteen-year activities abroad.
Nuclear weapons, defectors and fleeing back to the Soviet Union
Cernjak made great contributions to the development of Soviet nuclear weapons. After obtaining information about nuclear weapons in Britain, he was sent to Canada and the United States by his superiors. In this mission, he sent back thousands of pages of information about American nuclear weapons to the Soviet Union, and even a few milligrams of uranium -235 used to make an atomic bomb. 1941June 22nd: What did Stalin know? '
An interesting detail is that the Nazis successfully cracked the Soviet intelligence network (not that we were not wrong) and arrested all the personnel, but they failed to find the "Krone" intelligence personnel and Jan Cernjak, the core of the Krone network known as the "shadowless man". He never left any trace. Some people even say that he never stays in the same place twice. He often travels in Europe and only contacts spies after receiving the signal that he must meet. Cernjak could have continued to work abroad, but the defection of a cryptographer of the Soviet military attache in Ottawa forced Cernjak to be urgently and secretly withdrawn to the Soviet Union. Jan Cernjak obtained a Soviet passport in May 1946. It was then that he began to learn Russian. There is not a Russian grammatical error in his resume in the cadre department of Tass news agency. No one inside or outside the Tass news agency knows the true identity of Jan petrovich Cernjak, nor does he know that he has made too many great achievements for the Soviet Union to defeat the German aggressors. The secret of his life was gradually revealed only after he was awarded the gold medal of "Russian hero", but it was far from all. Cernjak's intelligence network is probably still in operation today.