Abdurrahman Fatalibeyli Abdurrahman Fatalibeyli ( birth surname Dudanginski , ( , ) or Abo Alioglu Fatalibeyli - Dudanginsky ( Або Алиевич Дудангинский / " Əbo Əliyeviç Düdənginski " ) , born Abo Dudanginski ( June 12 , 1908 , Dudanga – November 1954 , Munich ) was a Soviet army major who defected to the German forces during World War II . Life . Soviet Union . Fatalibeyli was born in the village of Dudanga ( near present - day Sharur , Nakhchivan ) . He studied in various public and military schools in Baku . He moved to Leningrad , where he joined the Communist Party to enter to the Military Engineering School and studied there for three years . His classmate from the Chief of Staff Academy years future Marshal of Soviet Union , Minister of Defense of USSR Andrey Grechko said the following about Fatalibeyli : " He possessed with incredibly sharp intelligence and analytical thinking . He was a commander by birth . In the questions of military tactics none of us could compare to him . " In 1936 , Fatalibeyli was expelled from the party due to having lied about his social origins and having reported himself to be of peasant stock . He later participated in the Soviet - Finnish War of 1939 , receiving the Order of the Red Star . He became major in 1941 , but was captured by German troops in the Baltic front in September 1941 and sent to a prisoners of war camp . Nazi Germany . After ( or during ) imprisonment in Poland , he joined the Wehrmacht and became an interpreter of SD officer and the deputy commander of the Einsatzgruppe D SS - Obersturmführer Heinz Schubert in North Caucasus , but according to Cabbar Ertürk who was elected as the responsible for cultural affairs of the Azerbaijan National Committee in Berlin , his " Turkish language " was poor . When the Caucasus Campaign began in August 1942 , he participated to the 804th Infantry Battalion " Aslan " ( literally " Lion Battalion " ) as a staff officer of its commander Major Dr . Gloger . The battalion belonged to the 4th Mountain Division of the 17th Army . The " Aslan " battalion advanced from Rostov - na - Donu to Armavir , and then to Malaya Laba River ( ) and Bagovskaya ( ) . After the death of Dr . Gloger on February 4 , 1943 when the battalion retreated to the Kuban bridgehead ( " " ) , Fatalibeyli - Dudanginsky temporarily commanded the battalion until Captain Haverland was appointed as the new commander in late March . And later he served for the 806th Infantry Battalion " Igit " ( literally " Brave Battalion " ) and I / 73rd . While fighting guerrilla attacks , he received the Iron Cross and promoted to major of the German military in 1943 . Head of the " Azerbaijan National Committee " and one of the architects of the Azerbaijani Legion helped by Mohammad Amin al - Husayni , Mufti of Jerusalem , and several Moslem collaborators , such as Ali Khan ( North Caucasus ) Dr . Szymkewicz , mufti of the Ostland zone occupied by the Germans ( Poland and occupied areas of the USSR ) , and Mohammed Al Gazani , Moslem poet and one of the chiefs of the anti - Soviet Moslem Union . In November 1943 , a broadcast of radio DNB ( Deutsche Nachrichten Büro ) announced that the first battalion of Azerbaijanis , which had actively fought against the Bolshevism during more than one year , " proved their valor , and were included in German Storm Troops and decorated by the German Army . " It was also announced that a conference about Azerbaijan had place in Berlin on November 7 , under the command of major Dudanginski . A dispatch dated November 16 , 1943 mentioned specifically that this conference had been followed " by the Mufti of Jerusalem " and " the representatives of the peoples of the Caucasus , the Ural and Turkestan . " More than 700 Azeris participated in the battle of Berlin in 1945 . Abo surrendered to Allied forces , and began to work for American intelligence . After the war , Fatalibeyli was cleared by the U . S . War Department ' s Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ) , a forerunner to the Central Intelligence Agency . Cold War . By 1948 , he had been invited to Egypt and was a military adviser for the Arabs during the 1948 Arab – Israeli War . In 1953 he began working for CIA - funded Radio Liberty in Munich , becoming chief of the Azerbaijani desk . In September 1954 , the body of Leonid Karas , a Belarusian writer , was found in the Isar River near Munich . Two months later ( on 24 November ) , Fatalibeyli was found garroted in the apartment of Mikhail Izmailov . Although never conclusively proved , KGB involvement was suspected in both cases . Last living contemporary witness , working with Fatalibeyli at Radio Liberty . Beschir Alizade