Ferdinand Heller
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Ferdinand Heller was the son of a wealthy American Communist. Heller confessed to the FBI that he had been recruited into Soviet industrial espionage in 1935 by KGB Officer Gaik Ovakimian.
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- Robert Lamphere and Tom Shachtman, The FBI-KGB War: A Special Agent's Story, New York: Random House, (1995), 143, 164–165, 171.
- John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, Yale University Press (1999), pgs. 375, 469.