Ivan Ksenofontov
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Ivan Ksenofontov | |
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| Deputy Chief of the Cheka | |
| In office 27 March 1919 – 12 April 1921 | |
| Prime Minister | Vladimir Lenin |
| Preceded by | Jēkabs Peterss |
| Succeeded by | Józef Unszlicht |
| Member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee | |
| In office 1917–1920 | |
| Member of the Russian Constituent Assembly | |
| In office 28 November 1917 – 5 January 1918 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 29 August 1884 |
| Died | 23 March 1926 (aged 41) |
| Citizenship | Russian Empire Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Soviet Union |
| Party | Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1917-1937) |
| Other political affiliations | Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (1903-1917) |
| Spouse | Irina Ksenofontova |
| Children | Nikolai and Boris |
| Profession | Statesman and revolutionary |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  Russian Empire (1906–1908) (1914–1917) Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1918–1922) Soviet Union (1922–1925) |
| Branch/service | Imperial Russian Army Cheka GPU OGPU |
| Battles/wars | World War I Russian Civil War |
Ivan Ksenofontovich Ksenofontov (Russian: Иван Ксенофонтович Ксенофонтов; August 29, 1884 – March 23, 1926) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and one of the founders of the Soviet secret police and state security agency, the Cheka (later GPU and OGPU).
He gained notoriety as Chairman of the Supreme Revolutionary Tribunal and later as First Deputy Chairman of the Cheka, the agency's "number two" under Felix Dzerzhinsky, where he played a decisive role in crushing various anti-Bolshevik factions and the Kronstadt uprising. An early supporter of Joseph Stalin, he was described as Stalin's "mole" in the security services.[1][2]
