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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 ...
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...
Jan 18, 2023 · For decades, Melita syphoned secrets from the London based British Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association, a company that hid its true role of developing atomic weaponry behind a bland title...
When Melita Norwood's espionage was exposed after 40 years, the great-grandma revealed she was a legendary KGB spy who leaked US and British nuclear secrets.
Dec 13, 1999 · Melita Norwood was the woman who “put Britain in great peril”, “gave Russia the atom bomb” and tried to help Stalin “enslave millions”. All this, plus she drank tea from a Che Guevara mug.
Dec 20, 1999 · Melita Norwood timeline. The spying career of Melita Norwood goes back more than 50 years: 1937 Melita Norwood gets a job as a secretary at the British Non-Ferrous Metals Research...
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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.
