Marion Davis Berdecio (1922 - 2006), born Marion Davis, was a recruit of the Soviet intelligence in the United States.

Career

Berdecio worked on the staff of the

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at the US embassy in

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and was one of several people recruited to assist Soviet intelligence during

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by Flora Wovschin, her classmate at

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. She was later transferred to the

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(CIAA) in

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. Her recruitment by Wovschin is documented in three

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decrypts. Russian archives in Moscow also show the

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querying the

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for information on Davis.Klehr and Haynes, ''Secret World'' 307.

Personal life

Wife of

Roberto Berdecio Roberto Guardia Berdecio (20 October 1910–1996) was a Bolivian-born artist and a significant contributor to the important political and cultural art movement in Mexico during the 1950s and 1960s. Early life Berdecio was born in Sucre, Bolivia. ...

Works

* **National Chamber of Industry of Transformation (CANACINTRA) :es:CANACINTRA * *

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(1972)
Lumpenbourgeoisie, Lumpendevelopment
'. Monthly Review Press. (tr. Marion Davis Berdecio)

References

Works cited

* Klehr, Harvey, John Earl Haynes, and Fridrikh Igorevich Firsov, ''The Secret World of American Communism'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995) * Klehr, Harvey, and John Earl Haynes. ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America.'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999)

External links

* https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/124-10313-10012.pdf * https://archive.org/details/CoplonJudithHQ10 1922 births 2006 deaths Barnard College alumni American spies for the Soviet Union American people in the Venona papers People of the Office of Naval Intelligence {{Espionage-bio-stub