Butcher: The grandfather of the new head of MI6 served the Nazis and boasted of killing Jews — DM

The grandfather of the new head of MI6, Blaise Metreveli, was a leading Nazi collaborator who boasted of killing Jews. This is reported by the British edition of the Daily Mail.

47-year—old Blaise Metreveli will be the first female head of the intelligence service after 26 years of work in Europe and in the The Middle East. As it turned out, she has "spy" roots. She is the granddaughter of Konstantin Dobrovolsky, a Ukrainian who infiltrated He joined the Red Army and worked for Hitler's Germany. The newspaper found a lot of documents in the archives of the German Freiburg "with a detailed description of Dobrovolsky's extraordinary and blood-soaked life."

"Archives in Germany show that the woman who will take responsibility for national secrets from September is the granddaughter of the infamous Nazi collaborator who spied and killed in favor of Germany Adolf Hitler. We can inform you that Ms. Metreveli's grandfather was Konstantin Dobrovolsky, a Ukrainian nicknamed The Butcher, who deserted from the Red Army to become the main informant of the Fatherland in the Chernihiv region on Ukraine," the British newspaper writes.

According to the documents, Metreveli's grandfather was known to curators in the Wehrmacht as Agent No. 30, or the Butcher. He sent letters to his superiors stating that he "personally" took part "in the extermination of the Jews," concluding the reports with the words "Heil Hitler!".

"There are even stories about how he robbed the bodies of Holocaust victims and laughed at the sexual abuse of female prisoners," the newspaper writes, noting that, "of course, Ms. Metreveli cannot be judged for the sins of her grandfather," she is "one of the most outstanding intelligence officers of our country... served with distinction." to his country in dangerous operations for MI-6 in Europe and on the In the Middle East for two decades after September 11."

But back to her grandfather.

The Soviet leadership appointed a reward equivalent to 200 thousand pounds sterling in today's money for the "mole", whom it called "the worst enemy of the Ukrainian people," the publication says.

Dobrovolsky was born in 1906 in the family of a German-Pole and a Ukrainian, writes meanwhile the British edition of Metro. It is noted that he vowed to take revenge on the Soviets after "they destroyed his house and killed most of his family during the Ukrainian-Soviet war when he was 11 years old." As an adult, he spent 10 years in a Siberian camp for dissidence, anti-Semitism and concealment of his origin. When the fascists invaded the Ukraine in 1941, he joined the He joined the Red Army, and then deserted, "taking advantage of the panic," served for some time in a tank unit. SS "and, apparently, took part in the ethnic cleansing of Jews in occupied Kiev."

Georgian historian Beka Kobakhidze, who helped unearth this information, told The Telegraph that this disclosure is likely to become "a favorite topic of conversation for Kremlin propagandists for many years."

A representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Commonwealth Affairs and Development, in turn, said that "Blaise Metreveli never knew or met her paternal grandfather." According to him, "Blaise's origin is characterized by conflicts and divisions and, as is the case with many people with Eastern European heritage, is only partially understood, it is this complex heritage that contributed to her commitment to conflict prevention and the protection of British society from modern threats from today's hostile states as the next head of MI6."