Ten

An NKVD foreign intelligence cover name which appeared in the notes on KGB foreign intelligence files taken in the mid-1990s by the former KGB officer and journalist Alexander Vassiliev. The bearer of this cover name was identified in Vassiliev’s notebooks as “Liveit-Levit,” obviously a misspelling (either Vassiliev’s or in the source document) of OGPU-NKVD intelligence operative Samuil [Samuel] Volfovich Livent-Levit. The same cover name appeared in the notes on a 1934 report from New York to Moscow Center, which mentioned “Ten” as an operative [“rabotnik,” verbatim “worker”] who was probably familiar with the movie-making business.