Melita Norwood, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Melita Norwood

Soviet spy

Date of Birth: 25-Mar-1912

Place of Birth: Bournemouth, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 02-Jun-2005

Profession: secretary, spy

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Melita Stedman Norwood (née Sirnis; 25 March 1912 – 2 June 2005) was a British civil servant and KGB intelligence source who, for a period after her formal recruitment in 1937, supplied the KGB (and its predecessor agencies) with state secrets from her job at the British Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association.In The Mitrokhin Archive: The K.G.B.
in Europe and the West, co-authored by Christopher Andrew, she is described as "both the most important British female agent in KGB history and the longest serving of all Soviet spies in Britain."