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Flora Wovschin

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36: 180:. 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 1267: 214: 1065: 1363: 1058: 1368: 79: 1353: 1051: 1348: 1343: 1304: 1190: 1114: 1080: 45: 1338: 173: 1358: 243: 258: 138: 1328: 177: 101: 1297: 1333: 827: 192:
counterintelligence report on Wovschin has a hand-written note in the margin stating she may have died serving as a nurse in
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From 9 September 1943 to 20 February 1945, she worked in the
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This biographical article related to espionage is a
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Bernard Schuster and Joseph Katz: KGB Master Spies in the United States

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