Zelman Passov

{{More citations needed|date=December 2009}}{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Zelman Passov

| birth_date = April 1905

| death_date = 15 February 1940

| office = Head of the INO

| predecessor = Sergey Spigelglas

| successor = Pavel Sudoplatov

| termstart = June 1938

| termend = November 1938

| birth_place = Staraya Russa, Novgorod Province, Russian Empire

| awards = {{Order of Lenin}}

| death_place = Moscow, Soviet Union

| birth_name = Zelman Isaevich Passov

| image = Passov.jpg

| image_size = '220px'

}}

Zelman Isaevich Passov ({{langx|ru|Зельман Исаевич Пассов}}; 1905 – 15 February 1940) was a Soviet security officer who headed the Soviet foreign intelligence service, then part of the NKVD from June to November 1938. In October 1938, when he was arrested on charges of "participating in an anti-Soviet conspiracy". He was shot on the night of February 15, 1940.

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Passov originally joined the secret police, the GPU, in 1922. He received the Order of Lenin in 1937.