Flora Wovschin | |
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| Born | Flora Don Wovschin (1923-02-20)February 20, 1923 New York City, U.S. |
| Disappeared | 20 September 1945(1945-09-20) (aged 22) |
| Status | Missing for 80 years, 4 months and 29 days |
| Mother | Maria Wicher |
Flora Don Wovschin (born 20 February 1923, disappeared 20 September 1945) was a suspected Soviet spy[1][2][3] who later renounced her American citizenship.
Wovschin was born in New York City. Her mother wasMaria Wicher and her stepfather wasEnos Regnet Wicher. She attended theUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison,Columbia University, andBarnard College. At Barnard, she was active in the American Students Union and may have been a member ofAmerican Youth for Democracy. She attendedBarnard College withMarion Berdecio andJudith Coplon, both of whom Wovschin later recruited into service for theNKVD.[citation needed]
From 9 September 1943 to 20 February 1945, she worked in theOffice of War Information, then transferred to theDepartment of State. She resigned from the State Department 20 September 1945. Wovschin acted as courier between Coplon and Soviet intelligence. Wovschin transmitted to the Soviet Union the information that the Americans had somehow become aware of NKVD internal codenames for various American institutions, including CLUB, HOUSE, BANK and CABARET, as used in the NKVD's most secret communications. After the war, she renounced her American citizenship and travelled to the Soviet Union where she married an engineer. AnFBI counterintelligence report on Wovschin has a hand-written note in the margin stating she may have died serving as a nurse inNorth Korea. Her code name in Soviet intelligence and in theVenona project is "Zora".[citation needed]
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