death_date death_place years_active birth_place citizenship nationality ethnicity article_title name birth_date known_for notable_works organization employer education birth_name occupation death_cause
1937 pyrenees mountains 1914-1938 ashgabat russian -lrb- empire -rrb- russian -lrb- empire -rrb- armenian georges agabekov
 georges s. agabekov 1896 espionage '' ogpu '' -lrb- 1930 -rrb- cheka , ogpu comintern tashkent praporshchik grigoriĭ sergeevich agabekov soldier , spy assassination
georges agabekov

georges agabekov -lrb- original family name arutyunov ; , transliteration grigoriĭ sergeevich agabekov -rrb- -lrb- 1896 -- 1937 -rrb- was a soviet red army soldier , chekist , ogpu agent , and chief of ogpu eastern section -lrb- 1928 -- 1929 -rrb- .
he was the first senior ogpu officer to defect to the west -lrb- 1930 -rrb- , motivated presumably by his amorous infatuation with an english language teacher in constantinople ; his revelatory books led to massive arrests of soviet intelligence assets across the near east and central asia .
