Yakov Moiseevich Fishman (Russian: Яков Моисеевич Фишман, 1887 - July 12, 1961), was a Russian revolutionary and politician, previously a leader of the Left Socialist Revolutionary Party who participated in the assassination of the German ambassador Wilhelm von Mirbach in 1918 and later, the anti-Bolshevik Left SR uprising. During the Russian Civil War, he joined the Russian Communist Party and played a key role in establishing the chemical and biological warfare capabilities of the Soviet Union, becoming a member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee. He also went to Italy and Germany as a Soviet intelligence officer and oversaw the Tomka gas test site in cooperation with Weimar Germany.[1][2][3] He became a Doctor of Chemical Sciences (1936) and a Major General of the Technical Troops (1955).
References
- ^ Sally W. Stoecker, Forging Stalin's Army: Marshal Tukhachevsky And The Politics Of Military Innovation , Routledge, 2018, ISBN 0429980027, pp.137-150
- ^ Es riecht nach Senf!, Henning Sietz, Die Zeit, Nr. 26, 2006
- ^ Weapons of Mass Destruction: Nuclear weapons, Volume 2 of Weapons of Mass Destruction: An Encyclopedia of Worldwide Policy, Technology, and History, James J. Wirtz, 2005, ISBN 1851094903 p. 257, citing N. S. Antonov
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