Frederic P Miller

Marcus Klingberg Frederic P Miller

Publisher Marketing: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Abraham Marcus Klingberg is the highest ranking Soviet spy ever caught in Israel. The case of Klingberg is regarded one of the most destructive spy scandals in the history of the State of Israel. At the beginning of World War II, fearing the Nazis, Klingberg escaped from Poland to the USSR. There, he finished his medical studies . On the first day of the German invasion to USSR (June 22, 1941) he volunteered for the Red Army, in which he would serve as a medical officer. After he was wounded, he worked as an epidemiologist in Perm (the Urals) (1942 - 1943) and as Chief Epidemiologist of the Bialorussian SSR (1944). In 1943 he studied in Moscow epidemiology at the Central Institute for Advanced Medical Training. In 1948 he immigrated to Israel. He served in the Medical Corps of the Israel Defense Forces, and in 1950 he advanced to the rank of Lt. Colonel. In 1957 he joined the top-secret Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR) in Ness Ziona (south of Tel Aviv), where he served as Deputy Scientific Director (until 1972). He also served as Head of the Department of Epidemiology until 1978.