Gevork Vartanian

Gevorg Vardanyan Andreyevich (Armenian Գեվորգ Անդրեվիչ Վարդանյան, Russian Геворк Андреевич Вартанян; born February 17, 1924 in Rostov-on- Don, † January 10, 2012 in Moscow) was a Soviet intelligence agent of Armenian descent.

Life

Wardanjan came with his father, who worked for the Soviet secret service, 1930 to Tabriz in Iran. At the age of 16, he was also an agent of the secret service.

The operating in Ukraine Soviet agent Nikolai Kuznetsov said to have disguised experienced as Lieutenant Paul Siebert by the company 's long jump, an alleged planned attack on the participants of the Tehran Conference, led by Otto Skorzeny. At the thwarting this plan Vardanyan will have been involved. Historians believe that such a plan never existed, but the Soviet reports on part of a disinformation campaign by the NKVD and later KGB were.

In 1955, he earned a degree at the Institute of Foreign Languages ​​in Yerevan. Until the nineties he was the Russian foreign intelligence service SWR. Wardanjans name and his role in the events in Tehran was announced only on 20 December 2000.

Vardanyan received numerous Soviet Awards. He was married, his wife Goar was also agent and worked with him. He died in 2012 in a Moscow hospital at the age of 87 years to cancer. At his funeral, Vladimir Putin said the widow his condolences, Dmitry Medvedev praised him as " the legendary secret agent ."