Edith Tudor Hart
| Edith Tudor Hart link Spartacus (Spook, photographer) | |
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| Born | Edith Suschitzky 28 August 1908 Vienna, Austria |
| Died | 12 May 1973 Brighton, England |
| Nationality | British, Austrian |
| Ethnicity | Jewish |
| Alma mater | Bauhaus |
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]