Filipp Golikov

Filipp Ivanovich Golikov (Russian: Филипп Иванович Голиков; 2 July[O.S. 15 July] 1900 – 29 July 1980) was a Soviet military commander. As chief of the GRU (Main Intelligence Directorate), he is best known for failing to take seriously the abundant intelligence about Nazi Germany's plans for an invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, either because he did not believe them or because Joseph Stalin did not want to hear them.

From 1944, Golikov was in charge of the repatriation of Soviet citizens during and after World War II as head of the Directorate for Repatriation under the Council of Ministers of the USSR. Golikov was promoted to the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union in 1961.