Gevork Vartanian
Soviet intelligence officer (1924–2012) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Gevork Andreevich Vartanian (Armenian: Գևորգ Վարդանյան, Russian: Гево́рк Андре́евич Вартаня́н; 17 February 1924 – 10 January 2012) was a Soviet intelligence officer.[2][3]
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Born | Gevork Andreevich Vartanian 17 February 1924[1] |
Died | 10 January 2012(2012-01-10) (aged 87)[1] |
Awards | Hero of the Soviet Union |
Espionage activity | |
Service years | 1940–1992 |
Codename | Anri |
Operations | Operation Long Jump |
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He was primarily responsible, together with his wife Goar Vartanian, for thwarting Operation Long Jump, concocted by Adolf Hitler, headed by Ernst Kaltenbrunner, and led by Otto Skorzeny, which was an alleged attempt to assassinate Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt at the Tehran conference in 1943.[1]