Marion Davis Berdecio

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

Marion Davis Berdecio worked on the staff of the Office of Naval Intelligence at the United States Embassy in Mexico City. She was one of several people recruited to assist Soviet intelligence during World War II by  Flora Wovschin, who was Davis's 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.

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References 
 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)

Category:1922 births
Category:2006 deaths
Category:Barnard College alumni
Category:American spies for the Soviet Union
Category:American people in the Venona papers
Category:People of the Office of Naval Intelligence