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  1. Apr 23, 2019 · Melita Norwood was a great-grandmother when her espionage was finally revealed. By: Becky Little. Updated: August 4, 2023 | Original: April 23, 2019. copy page link. Print Page. Tony Harris -...

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  2. Sep 13, 1999 · The daughter of grandmother Melita Norwood, unmasked as one of Britain's biggest traitors, last night told how the former spy kept details of her treachery secret from her to the very last moment.

  3. Early life. Norwood was born Melita Sirnis at 402 Christchurch Road in Bournemouth [2] [11] on 25 March 1912, [12] the daughter of British mother Gertrude Stedman Sirnis and Latvian father Peter Alexander Sirnis ( Latvian: Pēteris Aleksandrs Zirnis ).

  4. Jun 28, 2005 · Norwood's mother was English; she married a bookbinder from Latvia, whose family name was Sirnis, and set up home near Southampton, where their daughter was born. Norwood's parents were...

  5. 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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  7. Jan 18, 2023 · Melita was evidently very good at keeping secrets. So good, that when she was initially unmasked by a Times article, her own daughter Anita – a school lab technician – was, to use a tabloid ...

  8. Melita Norwood, nee Sirnis, was born in 1912, the English daughter of a Latvian father and a British mother, and grew up in unremarkable circumstances in the Home Counties. At the age of 20, in...

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