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1. www.telegraph.co.uk › 1492969 › Melita-NorwoodMelita Norwood - The Telegraph

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   Jun 29, 2005 · Melita Norwood, who died on June 2 aged 93, caused a brief flurry of excitement in 1999 when it was revealed that not only had she spied for the Russians for four decades, but that the...

2. www.thetimes.com › article › melita-norwood-obituaryMelita Norwood obituary

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   Melita Norwood obituary. BEFORE she was catapulted into the public eye in September 1999, Melita Norwood lived in complete obscurity, a secretary who had worked at the Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association in London and was known to her neighbours as a “lovely old lady” who produced homemade jam.

3. www.expressandstar.com › news › nostalgiaThe unlikely spy – how pensioner Melita Norwood passed ...

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   Jan 18, 2023 · Melita, suffering cancer and heart disease, died at Wolverhampton’s New Cross Hospital in 2005. In fairness, she refused to take money from her Russian masters. Melita believed that by ensuring,...

4. news.bbc.co.uk › 2 › hiBBC NEWS | UK | Melita Norwood: A secret life

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   Sep 13, 1999 · The elderly woman exposed as the longest-serving Soviet spy in Britain was a fresh-faced 25-year-old when her political idealism first drove her into spying for the Soviet Union. Melita Norwood...

5. www.nytimes.com › 1999/09/13 › worldThe Great-Grandmother Comes In From the Cold

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   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...

6. news.bbc.co.uk › 2 › hiBBC NEWS | UK | Cold War grandmother KGB spy dies

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   Jun 28, 2005 · The Cold War spy Melita Norwood, whose secret life was unmasked six years ago has died aged 93. Mrs Norwood, from Bexleyheath, south London, worked for the KGB for 40 years and was believed to...

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   Who was Melita Norwood?

   • Melita Norwood, who died on June 2 aged 93, caused a brief flurry of excitement in 1999 when it was revealed that not only had she spied for the Russians for four decades, but that the authorities had known of her treachery but had done nothing about it.

   Melita Norwood - The Telegraph

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   Who was Melita Norwood married to?

   • During this period she married Hilary Nussbaum (he later changed his name to Norwood). (2) According to Christopher Andrew she was also a secret member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Melita Norwood became friends with Andrew Rothstein, who recruited her to work for the NKVD in 1935. Her codename was HOLA.

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   Is Melita Norwood a KGB Cold War weapon?

   • With her bottle-base thick glasses, lank, grey hair tamed by clips and penchant for dowdy cotton blouses, Melita Norwood appears an unlikely KGB Cold War weapon. And the sleepy South Staffordshire parish of Wombourne, with its manicured village green, is an unlikely bolthole for one of the Kremlin’s best undercover operatives.

   The unlikely spy – how pensioner Melita Norwood passed nuclear secrets

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   What did Mrs Norwood do for a living?

   • Where those men hid their activities behind their upper-class backgrounds, elite educations and urbanity, Mrs. Norwood disguised hers with her complete suburban unremarkableness. She worked as a secretary at the British Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association, the home of the Tube Alloys project.

   The Great-Grandmother Comes In From the Cold

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8. news.bbc.co.uk › 2 › hiMelita Norwood timeline - BBC News

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   Dec 20, 1999 · Suspicions about Mrs Norwood are confirmed, but MI6 decides there is not enough evidence to prosecute. It is again decided not to interview her in order to protect other investigations into more...