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Title: Nikolaĭ Evgen'evich Khokhlov papers
Dates: 1956-1992
Collection Number: 2011C23
Creator: Khokhlov, Nikolaĭ Evgen'evich, 1922-
Collection Size:
3 manuscript boxes
(1.2 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Correspondence, writings, testimony, notes, printed matter, photographs, and memorabilia, relating to Soviet secret service
operations, research in parapsychology, and psychological warfare applications.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Languages:
English,
Russian, and German
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[Identification of item], Nikolaĭ Evgen'evich Khokhlov papers, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 2011.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog Socrates at
http://library.stanford.edu/webcat . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in Socrates is larger than the number of boxes
listed in this finding aid.
Soviet intelligence officer; defector to the United States; parapsychology researcher.
Working for the KGB, Khokhlov was sent to Germany in 1954 to assassinate the head of the anti-Soviet émigré organization NTS.
He declined to carry out his mission and defected to the West, where he wrote his memoirs and became a specialist in Soviet
military espionage and psychology. Khokhlov taught at California State University at San Bernardino from 1968 to 1992. He
died in 2007.
Scope and Content of Collection
Correspondence, writings, testimony, notes, printed matter, photographs, and memorabilia, relating to Soviet secret service
operations, research in parapsychology, and psychological warfare applications.
Also included are a list of Soviet specialists in psychological warfare and parapsychology, and correspondence and photographs
of Khokhlov. The earliest document in the collection is a transcript of Khokhlov's appearance before the House Un-American
Activities Committee in 1956.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Secret service--Soviet Union.
Parapsychology.
Psychological warfare.