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'''Ferdinand Heller''' was the son of a wealthy American [[Communist]]. Heller confessed to the [[FBI]] that he had been recruited into Soviet industrial [[espionage]] in 1935 by [[KGB]] Officer [[Gaik Ovakimian]]. | '''Ferdinand Heller''' was the son of a wealthy American [[Communist]]. Heller confessed to the [[FBI]] that he had been recruited into Soviet industrial [[espionage]] in 1935 by [[KGB]] Officer [[Gaik Ovakimian]]. | ||
Revision as of 15:27, October 14, 2011
Ferdinand Heller was the son of a wealthy American Communist. Heller confessed to the FBI that he had been recruited into Soviet industrial espionage in 1935 by KGB Officer Gaik Ovakimian.
References
- Robert Lamphere and Tom Shachtman, The FBI-KGB War: A Special Agent's Story, New York: Random House, (1995), 143, 164–165, 171.
- John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, Yale University Press (1999), pgs. 375, 469.