Recently, Russia's foreign intelligence agency (SVR) issued a statement to the news media confirming that the famous Soviet spy Gore Valtanyan died in Moscow on November 25 at the age of 93. Russia's foreign intelligence agencies praised Valtanyan and her husband, Gvok Vartanyan, as heroes of the Russian intelligence front! "She is a hero of the Soviet Union!" The statement said. "She's the heroine of a spy movie!" Gworkck died first in 2012. She left us again today! ”
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: "Without this couple, the history of our world could have been different. "The Kremlin did not specify how Gore Valtanyan changed the course of history. Nor did it provide any details about her achievements. The Gore Valtanyans are credited with helping to protect Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt during their historic meeting in Tehran in 1943.
What is clear is that she and her husband are highly praised Soviet agents who allegedly flew countless secret missions in Europe, Asia and the United States for 30 years. Russia's foreign intelligence agency said Gore Valtanyan, code-named Anita, was still actively working on intelligence until his death. She has good relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Putin considered her a big hero to the Soviet intelligence services, and putin later emerged from the Soviet intelligence services to become the current President of Russia, still meeting regularly with Gore Valtanyan.
She never revealed what they had discussed and remained silent about what she had done. "I helped my husband a lot at work," she said in a 2015 interview with the Russian government's official news agency, Rias. I share my failures and joys with my husband. “。 One of the tasks they knew was to protect the leaders of the "Big Three" allies at a strategic summit in Tehran in 1943 — British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Joseph Stalin, and U.S. President Franklin D. Bush. D. Roosevelt – They discussed the timing of opening a second front in the war against Germany.
Born on January 25, 1926 in Leninakan, Armenia, Soviet Union, Gore Valtanyan moved to Tehran with her family in the early 1930s, where she met her future husband, Gwok, who was also from Armenia. Gwauk's father was a Soviet intelligence officer in Tehran disguised as a businessman, while Gwark – code-named Amir – had been working for Soviet intelligence since he was a teenager. Gore met him when he joined the anti-fascist group led by Görwock. She spoke Armenian and he spoke Russian; at last they communicated in Persian and soon learned each other's languages. At the age of 16, Gore joined soviet intelligence. Four years later, she married Gwangwalker. They had three different marriages in total, one for each change of status.
In a statement about Valtanyyan's death, Russia's foreign intelligence agencies said, "In 1943, she joined an organization that provided security for the Tehran Conference. "It's not a trivial matter. The summit marked Stalin's rare wartime journey away from the Soviet Union. In addition, there were reports that the Nazis were planning to assassinate or kidnap the three Allied leaders, which they called Operation Long Jump. Gworker Valtanyan revealed in 2007 that he and his team in Tehran foiled operation long jumps by exposing Nazi agents, which Hitler subsequently abandoned.
From the Soviet Union to Russia, this history has been filmed many times. In 1981, the Soviet Union cooperated with France and Switzerland to shoot the famous "43 Years of Tehran" film based on real history, using a cross-time and space-spanning method to record that during the meeting of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin in Tehran in 1943, the assassination plan planned by German agents was discovered in time by Soviet intelligence led by Andrey and failed, but Marie, who assisted Andrey in smashing the assassination plot, was mysteriously killed in France 35 years later. The film starred in the famous Alain Delong at the time, which actually alluded to the story of the Valtanyyans. In 2011, Russia also filmed another "Tehran 43", but the influence was not as great as the former, but it was closer to historical facts.
But Mark Kramer, a Cold War historian at Harvard University, argues that while Gworker Valtanyon's description may have "some connection to reality," it happened more than 60 years after the facts, and there is no corroboration. Based on his own research of declassified Soviet and British documents, Dr. Kramer said he believed Operation Long Jump was a novel made up by the Soviets to elevate their image in the eyes of British and American intelligence agencies. "Even if the Germans do have a plan at some point," he said, "there's no indication that it ever went into the operational phase." ”
"We know that both of them worked in Tehran," Dr. Kramer of Harvard University said of the couple. "But what exactly they did, what their division of labor was, we don't know, and the Russian media has not had an accurate discussion of this." After the war, the couple moved to the Soviet Union. The NSA said it was involved in active intelligence efforts "under extreme conditions in many countries," but did not elaborate.
She retired in 1986 and continued to train young agents. After Valtanyan's death, NSA Director Sergei Nariskin praised her as "a model of wholehearted service to the fatherland." He said in a statement: "We will not forget what this seemingly fragile, but strong, brave and selfless woman did in secret intelligence. She was buried with her husband in the famous Troyekovskoy Cemetery in Moscow.