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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 ...
Apr 23, 2019 · In fact, Melita Norwood was the Soviet Union’s longest-serving British spy. From World War II through the Cold War, she stole nuclear secrets from the office where she worked as a secretary and...
- Becky Little
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 · Former Soviet spy Melita Norwood. 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...
Dec 20, 1999 · Melita Norwood: A secret life. How they found the spy of the century. Melita Norwood timeline. Q&A: Spy scandal under scrutiny.
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.
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.
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