MOSCOW, Nov 26 — Goar Vartanyan, one half of a legendary Soviet spy couple who helped prevent a Nazi assassination of allied leaders in Tehran in 1943, has died at age 93. Goar, who with her husband Gevork worked as a secret agent on numerous missions abroad, died yesterday, Russia’s SVR...
MOSCOW, Nov 26 — Goar Vartanyan, one half of a legendary Soviet spy couple who helped prevent a Nazi assassination of allied leaders in Tehran in 1943, has died at age 93.
She was to be buried at Moscow’s prestigious Troyekurovskoe cemetery, possibly on Friday, SVR spokesman Sergei Ivanov told AFP. Born on January 25, 1926 in Gyumri in what was then Soviet Armenia, Goar moved with her family to Iran in the early 1930s. When Hitler ordered the plot to kill the “Big Three” at a conference in Tehran, their group reportedly followed Nazi agents and exposed the plan.The SVR—one of the successor agencies to the Soviet-era KGB—said they were involved in “active intelligence work” in “extreme conditions in many countries” but did not provide any details.“Gevork used to say that of the five rays of his Hero Star, at least two belonged to his beloved Goar,” Ivanov said.
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