The Assassination of a German Deputy Director of the Cheka

The two men tasked with actually carrying out the assassination were yakov kin, head of the chekes german counter intelligence division, and nikolay andreef, who was a photographer by trade. With all these senior cheka officials in on the plot, it was easy to secure necessary papers and a believable story for blumkin and andreef to get inside the german embassy. They arrived on the afternoon of july sixth, saying they had come to discuss the case of lieutenant roger mierbach, a german officer suspected of espionage. But count mirbach himself tried to get a subordinate official along with a staffans to handle the meeting, but bloomkin