“Red Orchestra” was the name given by the German Abwehr and the Gestapo initially to people in Belgium, France, and the Netherlands who had relayed information via radio between July 1941 and November 1942 to the Soviet military intelligence services, the GRU (Glavnoe Razvedyvatel’noe Upravlenie, the Main Intelligence Directorate at the General Staff of the Red Army). Based on this, the Gestapo later reconstructed a Soviet espionage network that extended …