Augustina Stridsberg
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Augustina Stridsberg | |
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| Born | 1892 |
| Died | 1978 (aged 85–86) |
| Occupations | Writer, interpreter, translator |
| Children | Margietta Voge |
| Espionage activity | |
| Allegiance | Soviet |
| Codename | Klara |
Augustina Stridsberg, formerly Augustina Jirku (1892–1978),[1] was an American citizen, and the mother of Margietta Voge (née Jirku). Both mother and daughter worked for Soviet intelligence between 1943 and 1944. Stridsberg worked for the KGB San Francisco office. Her code name with Soviet intelligence, as deciphered by the Venona project, was "Klara".[2]
Stridsberg was also a writer and an interpreter as well as a literary translator.
References
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Categories:
- Austrian women writers
- American women translators
- American people of Austrian descent
- American spies for the Soviet Union
- American people in the Venona papers
- Espionage in the United States
- 20th-century American translators
- 20th-century American writers
- 20th-century American women writers
- 20th-century Austrian writers
- 1892 births
- 1978 deaths