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The Inner Line (Russian:Внутренняя Линия) was a secret counter-intelligence branch of theRussian All-Military Union (ROVS), the leadingRussianWhite émigré organization. GeneralAlexander Kutepov is credited with setting it up in the mid-1920s.[1][2]An alternative account sees the Inner Line as a group secretly established bySoviet intelligence within the ROVS.[3][4]
Whatever its origin, the Inner Line became subject to severe penetration byOGPU/NKVD.[5] It was seriously discredited after Soviet agents kidnapped the ROVS chairman GeneralYevgeny Miller in 1937, and following the subsequent disappearance ofNikolai Skoblin (Miller's aide and Inner Line senior operative), who, as a covertNKVD agent, lured Miller into the abduction operation.
[...] a White counterintelligence network known as the inner line. Kutepov had established the network in the late twenties to root out GPU police spies camouflaged as exiles.
The Soviet intelligence services also instituted a secret provocative and diversionary group within ROVS, known as the Inner Line.
They were also convinced that [Squadron Commander A. N.] Komorovskii was connected with the Inner Line, which they now came to believe was a Soviet provocation.
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