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Melita Stedman Norwood (née Sirnis Latvian:; 25 March 1912 – 2 June 2005) was a British civil servant, Communist Party of Great Britain member and KGB spy. Born to a British mother and Latvian father, Norwood is most famous for supplying the Soviet Union with state secrets concerning the development of atomic weapons from her job at the ...
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- Melita Stedman Sirnis, 25 March 1912, Bournemouth, England
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- 2 June 2005 (aged 93), Wolverhampton, England
Apr 23, 2019 · In fact, Melita Norwood was the Soviet Union’s longest-serving British spy. From World War II through the Cold War, she stole nuclear secrets from the office where she worked as a secretary and...
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- John Cairncross. John Cairncross, a British literary scholar, civil servant and Soviet atomic spy, is shown in his house on October 18, 1990 in Saint-Antonin, France.
- Melita Norwood. Eighty-seven year-old Melita Norwood stands outside her home in Bexleyheath, England in 1999 to read a statement concerning her involvement in passing over atomic secrets to the KGB.
- Klaus Fuchs. Police photograph of physicist-turned spy, Klaus Fuchs. Fuchs, a German-born physicist, fled to England amid the rise of Nazism in 1933 and became a British citizen in 1942.
- David Greenglass. David Greenglass, a sergeant and machinist assigned to the Manhattan Project, shown in 1950. Greenglass passed on data about the making of atomic bombs to his sister, Ethel Rosenberg.
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Sep 13, 1999 · Melita Norwood was a Soviet spy for 40 years, working for the KGB in the British nuclear industry. She reveals her motives, methods and how she evaded detection in this 1999 article.
Aug 5, 2022 · Melita Norwood, beloved secretary, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother who, for forty years, delivered nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union. Melita Norwood: The Soviet Union’s longest-serving British spy - Biographies by Biographics
Melita Norwood outs herself as a spy. Both Norwood and the Cambridge Five were identified because of the Mitrokhin archive, a collection of 20,000 documents the FBI described as the ‘most complete and extensive intelligence ever achieved from any source’.
Melita Norwood, a Communist and a secretary at the British Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association, copied and transferred hundreds of secret documents on the British nuclear program to the Soviet Union for 35 years. She was praised by the KGB as a "disciplined and devoted agent" and received the Order of the Red Banner.
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