Alexander Radó, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alexander Radó

Hungarian cartograph, communist activist, spy

Date of Birth: 05-Nov-1899

Place of Birth: Budapest, Hungary

Date of Death: 20-Aug-1981

Profession: economist, resistance fighter, cartographer, spy

Nationality: Hungary

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Alexander Radó (5 November 1899, Újpest, near Budapest – 20 August 1981, Budapest), also: Alex, Alexander Radolfi, Sándor Kálmán Reich or Alexander Rado, was a Hungarian cartographer and a Soviet military intelligence agent in World War II. Radó (codename: DORA) was also member of the resistance (German: Widerstandskämpfer) to Nazi Germany devoted to the service of the so-called Red Orchestra, the Soviet espionage and spy network to Western Europe between 1933 and 1945.
There he was the head of the Switzerland resistance group Red Three, one of the most efficient residents of the Red Orchestra.