Soviet spy Goar Vartanian, who along with her husband thwarted a Nazi attempt to assassinate Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt, has died in Moscow aged 93, Russian intelligence has announced .
Goar Vartanian passed away yesterday, Monday evening, and will be buried next to her husband, the now-famous secret agent Gevork Vartanian, who died in 2012, Sergei Ivanov, a spokesman for Russia's foreign intelligence service (SVR), told AFP. from the heirs of the Soviet KGB.
The ceremony is to take place on Friday at the Trogekurovo cemetery, near Moscow. A spy like her husband, Goar Vartanian mainly helped him prevent the Nazi operation "Big Leap" which aimed to simultaneously assassinate the three leaders of the Allies, the Soviet Joseph Stalin, the British Winston Churchill and the American Franklin Delano Roosevelt against during the Tehran conference in 1943.
Honored with the title of Hero of the USSR, Gevork Vartanian always said that Goar, two years his junior, "belonged to at least two of the five rays of his star as a hero," according to SVR. Goar, who was born in 1926 in Soviet Armenia, immigrated with her family to Iran in the 1930s. Already at the age of 16, she joined an anti-fascist group and then worked with her husband to expose German agents.
According to SVR, 'Anita' and 'Henry', two of their aliases, had been involved in a job carried out 'under extreme conditions and in many countries'. These are mainly France, Greece, the USA, Japan, India or even China, according to the Russian press.
In June 2017, Russian President Vladimir Putin, himself a former Soviet KGB agent, visited SVR headquarters and praised the work of the agents, including the Vartanians. According to former Soviet secret agent Mikhail Lyubimov, "the specific work of the Vartanians will never be revealed in order to avoid political scandals in the countries in which the couple worked".
SOURCE:APE-MPE