1. Edith Tudor-Hart was an Austrian-British photographer and spy for the Soviet Union.
16 Facts About Edith Tudor-Hart
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Edith Tudor-Hart recommended Litzi Friedmann and Kim Philby for recruitment by the KGB and acted as an intermediary for Anthony Blunt and Bob Stewart when the rezidentura at the Soviet Embassy in London suspended its operations in February 1940.
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Edith Tudor-Hart's father, Wilhelm Suschitzky, was a social democrat who was born into the Jewish community in Vienna, but had renounced Judaism and become an atheist.
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Edith Tudor-Hart opened the first social democratic bookshop in Vienna.
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Edith Tudor-Hart studied photography at the Bauhaus in Dessau in 1928 before working in Vienna, taking photographs of working class districts while a Montessori kindergarten teacher.
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Edith Tudor-Hart's brother became a well-known photographer and cinematographer in Britain.
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Edith Tudor-Hart cited his sister as an influence on his decision to pursue an artistic career over a scientific one.
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Edith Tudor-Hart was described "by those who knew her in her youth as immensely vivacious, amusing, curious, and gifted".
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Edith Tudor-Hart was instrumental in recruiting members of the Cambridge Spy ring, which damaged British intelligence from World War II through to its discovery in the late 1960s.
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Edith Tudor-Hart had met Arnold Deutsch in Vienna in 1926, and with him she worked in the OMS, the International Liaison Department of the Comintern.
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Edith Tudor-Hart was placed under surveillance by Special Branch after October 1931 when she was observed attending a demonstration in Trafalgar Square.
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Edith Tudor-Hart was of interest because of her friendship with Litzi Friedmann, made when she moved to London.
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Edith Tudor-Hart had spotted him as a potential Communist agent during his stay in Vienna, where he was a sympathiser of the Social Democrats who waged a civil war against the government of Engelbert Dollfuss.
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Edith Tudor-Hart acted as an intermediary for Anthony Blunt and Bob Stewart when the rezidentura at the Soviet Embassy in London suspended its operations in February 1940.
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Edith Tudor-Hart separated from her husband and had a breakdown.
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Edith Tudor-Hart died of stomach cancer in Brighton on 12 May 1973.