Elizaveta Yulyevna Zarubina. She was known as Elizabeth Zubilin while serving in the United States, and also known as Lisa Gorskaya. Born Lisa Rozensweig in Rzhaventsy, of Jewish background, she studied history and philology at universities in Romania, Czechoslovakia, and Austria, and was freely conversant in Romanian, Russian, German, French, English, and Hebrew.

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  • Elizaveta Yulyevna Zarubina. She was known as Elizabeth Zubilin while serving in the United States, and also known as Lisa Gorskaya. Born Lisa Rozensweig in Rzhaventsy, of Jewish background, she studied history and philology at universities in Romania, Czechoslovakia, and Austria, and was freely conversant in Romanian, Russian, German, French, English, and Hebrew. She was one of the most successful agent recruiters, establishing her own illegal network of Jewish refugees from Poland, and recruiting one of Leó Szilárd's secretaries, who provided technical data. She was the wife of Soviet Intelligence Resident Vasily Zarubin. Zarubina was an active participant in the revolutionary movement in Bessarabia after World War I. In 1919 she became a member of the Komsomol of Bessarabia. Elizabeth became part of the intelligence system in 1924. In 1923, she joined the ranks of the Austrian Communist Party. From 1924 through 1925 she worked in the embassy and trade delegation of the USSR. Form 1925 to 1928 she worked in the Vienna Rezidentura. In 1929 Elizabeth and Yakov Blumkin were posted as illegals in Turkey, where he sold Hasidic manuscripts from the Central Library in Moscow to support illegal operations in Turkey and the Middle East. Blumkin gave part of the sale proceeds to Leon Trotsky, who was then in exile in Turkey. Elizabeth denounced Blumkin who was immediately recalled to Moscow and executed. Shortly thereafter (1929), Eizabeth married Vasily Zarubin, and they traveled and spied together for many years, using the cover of a Czechoslovakian business couple for work in Denmark, Germany, France and the United States. In Germany during April 1941, Elizabeth Zarubina is credited with obtaining important information on Germany. According to Jerrold L. Schecter and Leona Schecter, Zarubina was "one of the most successful operators in stealing atomic bomb secrets from the United States". Together with Gregory Kheifetz (the Soviet vice-consul in San Francisco from 1941 to 1944), she set up a ring of young communist physicists around Robert Oppenheimer at Los Alamos to transmit nuclear weapon plans to Moscow.
  • Елизавета Юльевна Зарубина — советская разведчица, подполковник госбезопасности (1943). Кодовые имена «Эрна» и «Вардо», в Германии работала под фамилией Гутшнекер, во Франции и Дании — Кочек, в США — Зубилина, партийный псевдоним в Австрии — «Анна Дейч».
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  • Elizaveta Yulyevna Zarubina. She was known as Elizabeth Zubilin while serving in the United States, and also known as Lisa Gorskaya. Born Lisa Rozensweig in Rzhaventsy, of Jewish background, she studied history and philology at universities in Romania, Czechoslovakia, and Austria, and was freely conversant in Romanian, Russian, German, French, English, and Hebrew.
  • Елизавета Юльевна Зарубина — советская разведчица, подполковник госбезопасности (1943). Кодовые имена «Эрна» и «Вардо», в Германии работала под фамилией Гутшнекер, во Франции и Дании — Кочек, в США — Зубилина, партийный псевдоним в Австрии — «Анна Дейч».
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  • Elizabeth Zubilin
  • Зарубина, Елизавета Юльевна
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