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Melita Stedman Norwood (née Sirnis Latvian: [zirnis]; 25 March 1912 – 2 June 2005) was a British civil servant, Communist Party of Great Britain member and KGB spy.
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...
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...
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.
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.
Aug 18, 2021 · Melita Norwood. Michael Stephens/PA Images/Getty Images. Eighty-seven year-old Melita Norwood stands outside her home in Bexleyheath, England in 1999 to read a statement concerning her...
Melita Norwood, known as “Agent Hola,” was highly praised in the Soviet Union, even more than the more famous Kim Philby. She was characterized as a “disciplined and devoted agent, who does...
Jan 18, 2023 · 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.
Summary. M elita Norwood was an idealist, a Marxist, who throughout her long life refused to believe in the degradation of Soviet democracy and the failure of the Soviet experiment.1 For most of her lifetime British and European societies struggled for social cohesion, wracked by the class and ideological struggles of the twentieth century.
Melita Norwood was a member of one of those communist spy networks in America and Britain, who by guaranteeing those weapons of mass destruction threw down a challenge to America as sole superpower in the post-Second World War era.
