Eufrosina Dvoichenko-Markov (1901–1980) was a Russian-American history and literary scholar identified by
National Security Agency as agent ''Masha'' who worked for the
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NKGB ''Rezidentura'' from 1943 to 1945. Her son, Sgt.
Demetrius Dvoichenko-Markov of the
United States Army, is also identified by the
Venona papers as a Soviet agent, but spent the rest of his life as an academician in the United States. ''Masha'' provided Soviet intelligence with information on
Romanians,
Carpatho-Russians, and other exile groups in the United States. ''Masha'' also provided information on
United States Department of State personnel with whom she had contact.
She died in
Moscow in 1980.
Works
* Eufrosina Dvoichenko-Markov, ''Jefferson and the Russian Decembrists'', American Slavic and East European Review, Vol. 9, No. 3. (Oct., 1950), pp. 162–168
JSTOR link* Eufrosina Dvoichenko-Markov, ''The Pulkovo Observatory and Some American Astronomers of the Mid-19th Century'', Isis, Vol. 43, No. 3. (Sep., 1952), pp. 243–246.
JSTOR link* Двойченко-Маркова Е. Русско-американская дружба во время Крымской войны//Морские записки. Том XII. № 2. Нью-Йорк. 1954 г. С.3-18.
References
*
John Earl Haynes and
Harvey Klehr, ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America'',
Yale University Press (1999), pg. 259, 347, 449. .
* John Earl Haynes
"Cover Name, Cryptonym, CPUSA Party Name, Pseudonym, and Real Name Index. A Research Historian’s Working Reference"(revised February 2007), on the author's web site.
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American spies
American spies for the Soviet Union
American people in the Venona papers
1901 births
1980 deaths