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Melita Norwood
Melita Stedman Norwood (née Sirnis) (25 March 1912 – 2 June 2005) was a British civil servant and KGB intelligence source who, for a period of about 40 years following her recruitment in 1937, supplied the KGB (and its predecessor agencies) with state secrets from her job at the British Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association.
One very widely quoted (but resolutely unattributed) source described her as "the most important female agent ever recruited by the USSR."〔
==Early life==
Melita Sirnis was born to a Latvian father, Alexander Sirnis, and a British mother Gertrude, née Stedman, in the Bournemouth suburb of Pokesdown, Hampshire (now in Dorset). Both her parents were active in socialist circles. Her father produced a newspaper entitled "The Southern Worker and Labour and Socialist Journal" in which he printed articles by Lenin and Trotsky and which he distributed to local Communist Party of Great Britain members who tended to gravitate towards the family home. Melita Norwood (as she later became) was educated at Itchen Secondary School (as it was then known), becoming "School Captain" in 1928.〔 She then went on to study Latin and Logic at the University of Southampton,〔 before dropping out after a year and moving to London to get a job.
During the early 1930s she joined the Independent Labour Party (ILP). When the ILP splintered in 1936 she joined the Communist Party, although the UK authorities were not aware of her party membership till very much later. In 1935 she was recommended to the NKVD (forerunner of the KGB) by Andrew Rothstein,〔 a leading member of the Communist Party in Britain. It was also in 1935, towards the end of the year, that she married Hilary Nussbaum, a maths teacher, teachers' trades union official, son of Russian parents (he later changed his name to Norwood) and a lifelong communist. She had already, at this point, been working since 1932 as a secretary with the British Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association.〔 In 1937 the couple purchased a semi-detached house in the south London suburb of Bexleyheath where they led an apparently unremarkable life together, and where she would live till she was 90.
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