Marion Davis Berdecio

Marion Davis Berdecio, born Marion Davis (1922 - 2006) was a recruit of the Soviet intelligence in the United States.

Career

Berdecio worked on the staff of the Office of Naval Intelligence at the US embassy in Mexico City and was one of several people recruited to assist Soviet intelligence during World War 2 by Flora Wovschin, her classmate at Barnard College. She was later transferred to the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (CIAA) in Washington DC. Her recruitment by Wovschin is documented in three Venona project decrypts. Russian archives in Moscow also show the KGB querying the Comintern for information on Davis.

Personal life

Wife of Roberto Berdecio.

Works

• National Chamber of Industry of Transformation (CANACINTRA)
• Andre Gunder Frank (1972) Lumpenbourgeoisie, Lumpendevelopment. Monthly Review Press. (tr. Marion Davis Berdecio)

References

Works cited

• Klehr, Harvey, John Earl Haynes, and Fridrikh Igorevich Firsov, The Secret World of American Communism (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995)
• Klehr, Harvey, and John Earl Haynes. Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999)

External links

• https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/124-10313-10012.pdf
• https://archive.org/details/CoplonJudithHQ10