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  1. Melita Stedman Norwood (née Sirnis Latvian: [zirnis]; 25 March 1912 – 2 June 2005) was a British civil servant, Communist Party of Great Britain member and KGB spy.

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  2. Apr 23, 2019 · In 1999, an 87-year-old British woman held a press conference in front of her home to announce that for nearly four decades, she’d worked as a spy for the Soviet Union. In fact, Melita Norwood...

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  3. When Melita Norwood's espionage was exposed after 40 years, the great-grandma revealed she was a legendary KGB spy who leaked US and British nuclear secrets.

  4. In Bexleyheath, south London, an 87-year-old great-grandmother, Melita Norwood, confirmed that yes, as the book charges, she stole atomic secrets for Moscow for more than 40 years. Authorities in Western Europe and the U.S. learned that the KGB had easily intercepted revealing faxes from major defense firms and buried booby-trapped caches of ...

  5. Aug 5, 2022 · Melita Norwood, beloved secretary, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother who, for forty years, delivered nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union.

  6. Sep 13, 1999 · The elderly woman exposed as the longest-serving Soviet spy in Britain was a fresh-faced 25-year-old when her political idealism first drove her into spying for the Soviet Union. Melita Norwood...

  7. Sep 13, 1999 · Melita Norwood, 87-year-old British woman, admits that for decades she furnished Soviet Union with research documents from Britain's top secret nuclear weapons development program and says she...

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