During the spy games of WWII, the result of the war was hanging by a thread. Gevorg Vartanian, a young Armenian who joined the Soviet intelligence circle through his father, proved to be a valuable asset, even when he was 16 years old. Vartanian’s father posed as a rich Persian merchant in Tehran for 23 years, having moved there in 1930 when his son was six years old. He worked as an informant and an intelligence officer for the Soviets.
Young Gevorg discovered his gift for learning languages while coping with Persian. Growing up in Persia, which by that time insisted …read more
Source: Protothema
