Acting head of Armenian NSS attended Gohar Vardanyan’s funeral in Moscow
Acting National Security Service Head Colonel Eduard Martirosyan attended the funeral ceremony of legendary intelligence officer Gohar Vardanyan in Moscow, the press service at NSS reported,
As reported earlier, Gohar Vardanyan was laid today to eternal rest next to his husband, renowned spy Gevork Vardanyan at the Troyekurovskoye Cemetery.
Gohar Vardanyan was companion in arms with her prominent husband for 45 years of service.
She was born in 1926 in Gyumri. In the early 1930s, her family moved to Iran. At age 16, she entered her future husband Gevork Vardanyan’s anti-fascist group leading an active intelligence work. She participated in thwarting Operation Long Jump, concocted by Adolf Hitler, headed by Ernst Kaltenbrunner, and led by Otto Skorzeny, which was an attempt to assassinate Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt at the Tehran conference in 1943.
The couple worked as intelligence agents in several countries between the early 1950s and 1986.