Marion Davis Berdecio (1922 - 2006) born Marion Davis
Marion Davis Berdecio worked on the staff of the Office of Naval Intelligence at the United States Embassy in Mexico City. She was one of several people recruited to assist Soviet intelligence during World War II by Flora Wovschin, who was Davis's classmate at Barnard College.[citation needed] She was later transferred to the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (CIAA) in Washington DC. Her recruitment by Wovschin is documented in three Venona project decrypts.[1] Russian archives in Moscow also show the KGB querying the Comintern for information on Davis.[2]
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- Klehr, Harvey, John Earl Haynes, and Fridrikh Igorevich Firsov, The Secret World of American Communism (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995)
- Klehr, Harvey, and John Earl Haynes. Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999)
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