Spy Soviet legend dies

Gevork Vartanyan with his wife, Mrs. Goar Levonovna

  Legendary spy of the Soviet Union Gevork Vartanian, who helped break a plot to assassinate Allied leaders during World War II, has died in Moscow aged 87.
His death on Friday Vartanyan 10.1 is the Russian Foreign Intelligence Agency (SVR) announced today 11.1. He had a career long, but the agents operating in Iran as a teenager agents made him a legend.

 Gevork Vartanyan with his wife, Mr. Goar Levonovna - Photo: Telegraph
Nazi Germany's plan is codenamed Long Jump (jumps) has never been fully disclosed and some historians even doubt its existence. However, the source of the USSR and Russia (later) has confirmed that it was a real plan and in recent years, the Russian government has revealed the role of Vartanyan.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev praised Mr. Vartanyan is "a legendary spy, a true patriot."
Leaders of the U.S., Britain and the Soviet Union gathered at the Soviet embassy in Tehran on May 11.1943, to discuss strategy against Hitler. Agenda notably the opening of second front in Western Europe.
The Tam assassinate Allied leaders as single punch can become a big win in Germany, countries with refugee communities living in the crowded capital Tehran can support agents.
Leap-term plan is said to be done under the direction of the military commander of the elite Waffen-SS Otto Skorzeny, a notorious spy who helped Mussolini fled to Germany in 1943 after Italy surrendered ally. However, plans marred by a drunken SS officer, who told a Soviet spy on it.
After Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill in Tehran, a group of German commandos parachuted near the Iranian city of Qum. This group was the Soviet spy under the command of the track when they Vartanyan to Tehran by camel. Once there, the Germans hiding and spying in the city at the Soviet spy monitor communications through their radio.
He Vartanyan told RIA Novosti in 2007: "When we decode messages via radio waves, we know the Germans sent a team preparing Monday to destroy the terrorist acts - murder The Tam or kidnapped. The second group is said to be led by the Skorzeny ".
However, due to the suspense of waiting, he decided to catch Vartanyan the Germans were present. News of the arrest spread to destroy the second group and although detailed plans are unclear.


 Ministry Tam Joseph Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill at the Tehran Conference in May 12.1943 - Photos: U.S. Signal Corps
Before that, Vartanyan, the son of a Soviet spy root Armenia, a former special agents in Tehran and had entered a school of British intelligence, according to Russian newspaper Pravda.
After the war, he married his childhood love Goar Levonovna and recruit her as a spy. Both then operating in foreign countries for decades, the SVR.
In 1984, he was awarded Vartanyan Gold Star Medal for heroic Soviet Union, the highest medal of the country.
Talking about 45 years of espionage, mostly with his wife, he confided Varanyan RIA Novosti news agency in an interview: "We are lucky to have never met a traitor. Like the infantry soldiers, toxic agents committed only one mistake. "