Potemkin, espionage

Date: 1930-1933 Reference: KV 2/2880 (8) Creator: Security Service Catalogue context: Joseph Volkovich VOLODARSKY and Elisabeth Grigorievna VOLODARSKAYA: Polish-Russian (in aliases also claimed French and Canadian nationalities). VOLODARSKY came to the UK in 1930 to work at Russian Oil Products in Bristol. In September 1932, calling himself OLSEN and pretending to be Romanian journalist, he tried to buy commercially-sensitive information from Shell-Mex employee, for which he was convicted of corruption and fined. Returned to Russia, and next appeared in Canada during 1935-1936 using variations on the names LABIS and FELDMAN, taking part in providing documentation for the Soviet Illegal Willy BRANDES, associated with the Woolwich Arsenal/GLADING espionage case. Actively involved in espionage (OGDU/NKVD) in the USA for some years, in November 1940 he was arrested in Canada and interned Categories: Second World War Subjects: Agents, extremists, traitors; Americas; Asia; Europe and Russia; Intelligence; Internment; Oil and gas Topics: Business, finance and innovation; International trade and affairs; Military and war Period: Interwar Copyright information: Copyright clearance for publication is not required, except in the case of documents in third-party copyright. Usage terms: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/information-management/use-of-tna-materials.pdf