- Elizabeth Zubilin
Elizaveta Yulyevna Zarubina ( _ru. Елизавета Юлиевна Зарубина;
January 1 ,1900 –14 May 1987 ). She was known as Elizabeth Zubilin while serving in theUnited States , and also known as Lisa Gorskaya. Born "Lisa Rozensweig" inBukovina , [Schecter and Schecter, p. 80] of Romanian background, she studied history and philology at universities in Russia,France , andAustria , and was freely conversant in Romanian, Russian, German, French, English, and Hebrew. She came from a family of revolutionaries related toAna Pauker , a founder of theCommunist Party of Romania . She was one of the most successful agent recruiters, establishing her own illegal network ofJewish refugees fromPoland , and recruiting one ofLeó Szilárd 's secretaries, who provided technical data. She was the wife of Soviet Intelligence RezidentVasily Zarubin .Zarubina was an active participant in the revolutionary movement in
Bessarabia afterWorld War I . In 1919 she became a member of theKomsomol of Bessarabia. Elizabeth became part of the intelligence system in 1924. She met and fell in love withYakov Grigorevich Blumkin , theassassin of CountWilhelm Mirbach , the German ambassador in Moscow in 1918. Blumkin was a key figure in the plot of the Socialist Revolutionaries againstVladimir Ilich Lenin in July 1918. When the plot failed, Blumkin was pardoned and continued to work for Dzerzhinsky andLeon Trotsky .In 1923, she joined the ranks of the
Austrian Communist Party . From 1924 through 1925 she worked in the embassy and trade delegation of the USSR. Form 1925 to 1928 she worked in theVienna Rezidentura.In 1929 Elizabeth and Blumkin were posted as illegals in
Turkey , where he sold Hasidic manuscripts from the Central Library in Moscow to support illegal operations in Turkey and theMiddle East . Blumkin gave part of the sale proceeds to Trotsky, who was then in exile in Turkey. Elizabeth denounced her husband and Blumkin was immediately recalled to Moscow and executed by a firing squad. Shortly thereafter (1929), Eizabeth married Vasily Zarubin, and they traveled and spied together for many years, using the cover of aCzechoslovakia n business couple for work inDenmark , Germany, France and the United States.In Germany during April 1941, Elizabeth Zarubina is credited with obtaining important information on Germany.
According to Jerrold L. Schecter and Leona Schecter, Zarubina was "one of the most successful operators in stealing atomic bomb secrets from the United States". Together with Gregory Kheifetz (the Soviet vice-consul in
San Francisco from 1941 to 1944), she set up a ring of young communist physicists aroundRobert Oppenheimer at Los Alamos to transmit nuclear weapon plans to Moscow. [Schecter and Schecter, p. 79]Notes
References
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John Earl Haynes andHarvey Klehr , "Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America",Yale University Press , 1999. ISBN 0-300-08462-5.
* Jerrold L. Schecter and Leona Schecter, "Sacred Secrets: How Soviet Intelligence Operations Changed American History", Potomac Books, 2002. ISBN 1574883275
*Pavel Sudoplatov , Anatoli Sudoplatov, Jerrold L. Schecter, Leona P. Schecter, "", Boston:Little, Brown and Company , 1994. ISBN 0316773522
*Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev, "The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America—the Stalin Era", New York:Random House , 1999, pgs. 162, 249-50, 251, 274, 276, 303, 341. ISBN 0679457240
*Edvin Stavinsky "Zarubins-the family "rezidentura"" "Olma-press" 2002 Moscow (in Russian).External links
* Irina Titova, [http://petersburgcity.com/news/city/2004/07/28/russian_spies/ "Soviet Spy Who Outwitted Einstein"] , "
The Moscow Times ",July 28 ,2004
*ru icon [http://svr.gov.ru/history/zar.html Vasily Zarubin] , at the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service
*ru icon [http://www.peoples.ru/military/scout/zarubina/index.html Zoya Zarubina]
*ru icon [http://nvo.ng.ru/spforces/2001-01-19/7_erna.html MysteriousErna ]
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