Ludek Zemanek

Ludem Zemanek, pseud. Rudolf A. Herrmann - Soviet intelligence officer of the First General Board of the State Security Committee, in the 1960s was acting in the United States as illegal. Curriculum vitae

Czech trained in the German Democratic Republic and Moscow, sent in 1961 to Canada. His name was Ludek Zemanek, but he performed under the KGB by the false name of Rudolf A. Herrmann, a German soldier, in fact killed on the eastern front during World War II. After seven years of operation in the Canadian network, he was ordered to move with his wife and minor children to the United States, residing in Harstdale in the New York satellite settlement. He bought a detached house there, which allowed him to broadcast radio reports. As a resident, he was to take over an agency led by intelligence officers working under diplomatic cover in the event of a diplomatic break or a war. He also had the task of searching for suitable places on the so-called. dead contact boxes, near military bases. He acted formally as a photographer and film operator, which in turn translated his frequent travels around the country. In the spy secrets of the profession introduced his son Peter, who while studying at the Georgetown University funded by the KGB, was however recaptured by the FBI counter-intelligence. Consequently, the role of dual agents began to play his parents. According to John Barron, a former US Navy intelligence officer and KGB expert, Hugh Hambleton. After two years the KGB became suspicious that the Herrmanns (Zemaneks) were working as double agents, and decided to cancel them. The FBI rightly sensed the deception, disguised the Herrmanns, gave them a new identity and set them free. They were somewhere in the United States under an assumed name.

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