An Armenian-born spy whom the Kremlin says helped to thwart a Nazi plot to assassinate Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin in 1943 has died aged 93
According to the Kremlin, Goar Vartanyan and her late husband, Gevork, were involved in foiling Operation Long Jump -- a Nazi plot to kill the"Big Three" while the Allied leaders were in Tehran for their first meeting during World War II. Vartanyan died Monday and will be buried in the Troyekurovskoye Cemetery in Moscow, according to Russian state news agency Ria Novosti.Her husband died in 2012 at the age of 87.
Vartanyan was born in Gyumri -- in what was then Soviet Armenia -- on January 25, 1926, according to the AFP news agency. Exclusive: US extracted top spy from inside Russia in 2017 Her family moved to Iran in the early 1930s. After becoming involved with an anti-fascist group at the age of 16, she worked with Gevork to expose German agents, AFP reports.In 1951, the Vartanyans moved to the USSR and are believed to have had lengthy careers in the intelligence service.
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