The Inner Line (russian: Внутренняя Линия) was a secret counter-intelligence branch of the

Russian All-Military Union The Russian All-Military Union ( rus, Русский Обще-Воинский Союз, abbreviated РОВС, ROVS) is an organization that was founded by White Army General Pyotr Wrangel in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes on 1 September ...

(ROVS), the leading

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organization. General

Alexander Kutepov Alexander Pavlovich Kutepov ( rus, Алекса́ндр Па́влович Куте́пов; 28 September 1882 in Cherepovets, Novgorod Governorate, Russian Empire – 26 January 1930 in Paris, France) served as an officer in the anti-communi ...

is credited with setting it up in the mid-1920s.″Оснивање белогвардејских тајних служби: Из тајних архива УДБЕ: РУСКА ЕМИГРАЦИЈА У ЈУГОСЛАВИЈИ 1918–1941.″ // ''

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'', 13 December 2017, p. 18. An alternative account sees the Inner Line as a group secretly established by

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within the ROVS. Whatever its origin, the Inner Line became subject to severe penetration by

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NKVD The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (russian: Наро́дный комиссариа́т вну́тренних дел, Naródnyy komissariát vnútrennikh del, ), abbreviated NKVD ( ), was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union. ...

.″Неоткривене ћелије советских агената: Из тајних архива УДБЕ: РУСКА ЕМИГРАЦИЈА У ЈУГОСЛАВИЈИ 1918–1941.″ // ''

'', 14 December 2017, p. 25. It was seriously discredited after Soviet agents kidnapped the ROVS chairman General

Yevgeny Miller Eugen Ludwig Müller (russian: Евге́ний-Лю́двиг Ка́рлович Ми́ллер, tr. ; 25 September 1867 – 11 May 1939), better known as Yevgeny Miller, was a Russian general of Baltic German origin and one of the leaders of th ...

in 1937, and following the subsequent disappearance of

Nikolai Skoblin Nikolai Vladimirovich Skoblin (russian: Николай Владимирович Скоблин; 9 June 1892 – 1938?) was a general in the White Russian army, a senior operative in the émigré expatriate Russian All-Military Union (''ROVS'') an ...

(Miller's aide and Inner Line senior operative), who, as a covert

agent, lured Miller into the abduction operation.

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ГЛАВА 8. Что же такое «Внутренняя линия»?
// ''ОГПУ против РОВС. Тайная война в Париже. 1924-1939 гг.'' by Armen S. Gasparyan Politics of the Soviet Union White Russian emigration Anti-communist organizations Counterintelligence agencies {{Russia-hist-stub

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