Edith Tudor Hart

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(spook, photographer)
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BornEdith Suschitzky
28 August 1908
Vienna, Austria
Died12 May 1973 (Age 64)
Brighton, England
NationalityBritish, Austrian
EthnicityJewish
Alma materBauhaus
Austrian-British photographer and spy for the Soviet Union.

Edith Tudor-Hart was an Austrian-British photographer and spy for the Soviet Union. Brought up in a family of socialists, she trained in photography at Walter Gropius's Bauhaus in Dessau, and carried her political ideals through her art. Through her connections with Arnold Deutsch, Tudor-Hart was instrumental in the recruiting of the Cambridge Spy ring which damaged British intelligence from World War II until the security services discovered all their identities by the mid-1960s. She recommended Litzi Friedmann and Kim Philby for recruitment by the KGB[1] 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.[2]


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