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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...
Apr 23, 2019 · In 1999, an 87-year-old British woman held a press conference in front of her home to announce that for nearly four decades, she’d worked as a spy for the Soviet Union. In fact, Melita Norwood...
- Becky Little
Apr 19, 2019 · Standing in her suburban front garden in 87-year-old pensioner Melita Norwood read from a crisp sheet of paper, intently looking down the lens of a camera as she confessed to being a top secret...
- Jo-Anne Rowney
Melita Norwood whiled away her golden years making homemade jam in the suburbs, tending to her garden, and waiting for a knock on the door from the British MI5 security team who investigate nuclear spies.
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...
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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.
