Execution of Richard Sorge - Stalin’s Soviet “James Bond“ & His Secret Operations in Germany & Japan

Richard Sorge was born on the 4th of October 1895 in Baku then part of the Russian Empire. In 1929, already divorced Sorge was invited to join the Soviet military intelligence Red Army’s Fourth Department and the same year, instructed to remain undercover and to stay out of politics, he went to the United Kingdom to study the labour movement there, the status of the Communist Party of Great Britain and the country’s political and economic conditions. In November 1929, Sorge was sent to Germany with instruction to join the Nazi Party and not to associate with any left-wing activists. As cover, he got a job with the agricultural newspaper. In 1930, Sorge was sent to Shanghai, China. Under cover as the editor of a German news service, Sorge established himself as an expert on Chinese agriculture and in that role and in that role he travelled around the country and contacted members of the Chinese Communist Party. In January 1932, Sorge reported on fighting between Chinese and Japanese tro