security chief, shot for his pains - page 3 QUOTE Genrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda 7 November 1891–15 March 1938, born Enokh Gershevich Ieguda , was a Soviet state security official who served as director of the NKVD , the Soviet Union's Stalin-era security and intelligence agency, from 1934 to 1936. Appointed by