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They most certainly did not. They didn't know about Norwood amongst others until after Mitrokhin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melita_Norwood https://en.wikip
by secfirstmd 6y ago
They most certainly did not. They didn't know about Norwood amongst others until after Mitrokhin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melita_Norwood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melita_Norwood
Plus their successes were towards the end of the Cold War. They were effectively neutered by their own arrogance, ego and class blinding foolishness in the Russia sense until the 80s.
- mhh__ 6y agoNorwood retired when Gordievsky was still in Denmark if I have my dates correct, which is probably why he never heard about her (he never made it quite to the top of the tree). "I did what I did, not to make money, but to help prevent the defeat of a new system which had, at great cost, given ordinary people food and fares which they could afford, a good education and a health service" (As with most Soviet spies she lived the lie until she died)