جين فوستر زلاتوفسكي
يُزعم أن جين فوستر زلاتوفسكي (1912-1979) شاركت، مع زوجها جورج زلاتوفسكي، في أنشطة سرية لصالح الاتحاد السوفيتي أثناء عملهما في وكالات حكومية أمريكية حساسة خلال الحرب العالمية الثانية . وقد وُجهت إليهما لائحة اتهام في عام 1957. ولم تُجرَ أي محاكمة بحقهما، ونفى الزوجان زلاتوفسكي هذه الاتهامات.
وقت مبكر من الحياة
نشأت جين فوستر في سان فرانسيسكو، كاليفورنيا . كان والدها، هاري إيمرسون فوستر، المدير الطبي لمختبرات كتر . أما والدتها فهي إيف كودي فوستر. التحقت فوستر بكلية ميلز في أوكلاند، كاليفورنيا ، وتخرجت عام 1935. [ 1 ] : 29
تزوجت فوستر من الدبلوماسي الهولندي أليندرت كامبر [ 2 ] في أكتوبر 1936. وانفصلت عنه بعد 18 شهرًا. ولأن فوستر كانت مُلزمة بالبقاء خمسة أشهر على الأراضي الهولندية لإتمام إجراءات الطلاق، سافرت إلى بالي . ومكثت هناك حتى سبتمبر 1939، ثم عادت إلى الولايات المتحدة بسبب إعلان بريطانيا الحرب على ألمانيا . [ 1 ] : 31 انضمت لفترة وجيزة إلى الحزب الشيوعي الأمريكي عام 1938. [ 3 ]
التقت فوستر بزلاتوفسكي وتزوجته في واشنطن العاصمة عام 1943، ثم تزوجته مرة أخرى بعد ثلاث سنوات. عملت لدى مجلس الحرب الاقتصادية ومكتب الخدمات الاستراتيجية من أواخر عام 1943 حتى أوائل عام 1946 [ 2 ] في القسم الإندونيسي . [ 4 ] : 349 كانت فوستر من أوائل عملاء مكتب الخدمات الاستراتيجية الذين وصلوا إلى إندونيسيا بعد استسلام اليابان عام 1945، حيث قابلت سوكارنو لمعرفة ما إذا كان يخطط للتحالف مع مصالح الحلفاء. [ 5 ] كتبت فوستر في سيرتها الذاتية أن العميل السوفيتي تشارلز فلاتو كان من أقرب أصدقائها في المجلس. [ 4 ] : 119
مزاعم التجسس
Foster was allegedly recruited into espionage in 1938 by NKVD operative Martha Dodd.[6] In 1942, Foster rented a room from Henry Collins in Washington, D.C., who likewise was active in the secret apparatus. After World War II, Foster and her husband allegedly became members of a Soviet espionage ring run by Jack Soble.[7] She is believed to be identified in Soviet intelligence and in the Venona project files with the code name SLANG, where she is mentioned as engaged in transmitting information and in other espionage tasks.[4]:349 According to Gregg Herken, SLANG is named in two cables decrypted in the Venona project, one dated 21 June 1943, the other dated 30 May 1944.[8]
The Zlatovskis were indicted by a Federal grand jury on July 8, 1957, on charges of espionage.[2] The couple were living in Paris at the time, and denied the charges in a brief interview with the New York Times.[9]
Time Magazine sensationally alleged in 1957 the Zlatovskis became part of the Soble network in January 1940. At times they dealt directly with Soble, while on other occasions they are thought to have worked with Boris Morros. According to Morros, Jane and George Zlatovski were useful espionage agents and served a crucial role in the Soble spy network. As reported in Time, "[I]n covert meetings in the U.S. and a dozen European cities (including Moscow) the Zlatovskis turned over to Morros a file-load of valuable information that was passed to Soviet intelligence."[3] George Zlatovski (alleged code name RECTOR[10]) was not as active as his wife, gathering mostly information on refugees for Soviet intelligence.[3] As a team, the two allegedly collected information on the "sexual and drinking habits" of U.S. personnel stationed in Austria, apparently for blackmail recruitment of new agents for espionage activity.[2]
After revelations of the Soble network appeared in the press in 1957,[3] both Jane and George Zlatovski denied Morros' allegations. They remained in exile in Paris, where Foster reconnected with Julia Child and her husband, Paul, both of whom had worked with Foster in the OSS.[11] Although the U.S. government tried to extradite the Zlatovskis,[12] it was unable to do so.[13] Although she continued to publicly deny her involvement in espionage, it has been reported Foster confessed to both French intelligence agents and to the Paris office of the FBI.[7]
Her autobiography, An Un-American Lady, is a colorful account of an upper-class expatriate socialite in the pre- and post-World War II era, and also recounts her involuntary detention in the U.S., surveillance by FBI and CIA agents, and description of McCarthy-era America.[14]
References
- 12Conant, Jennet (5 April 2011). A Covert Affair: Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4391-6352-8. Retrieved 15 October 2011.
- 1234Anderson, David (9 July 1957). "2 Ex-Aides of U.S. Indicted as Spies". The New York Times. p. 1.
- 1234"Ever-Widening Ring". Time Magazine. 22 July 1957.
- 123Haynes, John Earl; Klehr, Harvey (11 August 2000). Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-08462-7. Retrieved 15 October 2011.
- ↑Smith, Richard Harris (1 August 2005). OSS: The Secret History of America's First Central Intelligence Agency. Globe Pequot. p. 267ff. ISBN 978-1-59228-729-1. Retrieved 15 October 2011.
- ↑Brysac, Shareen Blair (23 May 2002). Resisting Hitler: Mildred Harnack and the Red Orchestra. Oxford University Press. p. 396ff. ISBN 978-0-19-515240-1. Retrieved 15 October 2011.
- 12Romerstein, Herbert; Breindel, Eric (25 December 2001). The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors. Regnery Publishing. pp. 295–6. ISBN 978-0-89526-225-7. Retrieved 15 October 2011.
- ↑Herken, Gregg (19 August 2003). Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller. Macmillan. pp. 352–. ISBN 978-0-8050-6589-3. Retrieved 15 October 2011.
- ↑Blair, W. Granger (10 July 1957). "2 Accused by U.S. Deny Spy Charges". The New York Times. p. 1.
- ↑Haynes, John Earl; Klehr, Harvey; Vassiliev, Alexander (2009). Spies: the rise and fall of the KGB in America. Yale University Press. p. 327. ISBN 978-0-300-12390-6. Retrieved 15 October 2011.
- ↑Reardon, Joan (1 December 2010). As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 249. ISBN 978-0-547-41771-4. Retrieved 15 October 2011.
- ↑Blair, W. Granger (24 July 1957). "French Suggest Spy-Case Course". New York Times. p. 10.
- ↑Wright, Richard O. (1974). Whose FBI?. Open Court. ISBN 978-0-87548-148-7. Retrieved 15 October 2011.
- ↑Foster, Jane (1980). An unamerican lady. Sidgwick and Jackson. ISBN 978-0-283-98711-3. Retrieved 15 October 2011.
Further reading
- Breuer, William B. (April 2001). Daring Missions of World War II. John Wiley and Sons. p. 197ff. ISBN 978-0-471-15087-9. Retrieved 15 October 2011.
- Foster, Jane (1980). An Unamerican Lady. Sidgwick and Jackson. ISBN 978-0-283-98711-3. Retrieved 15 October 2011.
- Gouda, Frances; Zaalberg, Thijs Brocades (2002). American visions of the Netherlands East Indies/Indonesia: US foreign policy and Indonesian nationalism, 1920-1949. Amsterdam University Press. pp. 167–. ISBN 978-90-5356-479-0. Retrieved 15 October 2011.
External links
- VENONA cable of 21 June 1943 mentioning SLANG.
- VENONA cable of 30 May 1944 identifying SLANG as Jane Zlatovsky.
- 1912 births
- 1979 deaths
- University of Minnesota alumni
- American spies for the Soviet Union
- American people in the Venona papers
- People of the Office of Strategic Services
- Mills College alumni
