What is Goar Vartanian?
[[File:Gohar_Vartanian_(cropped).jpg|thumb|200px|Vartanian in 2005]] '''Goar Levonovna Vartanian''' ({{lang-hy|Գոհար Լևոնի Վարդանյան}} {{lang-ru|Гоар Левоновна Вартанян}}; 25 January 1926 &ndash; 25 November 2019) was an [[Armenia]]n woman who spied for the [[Soviet Union]] together with her husband [[Gevork Vartanian]]. She became a member of an anti-fascist group in 1942. They uncovered and prevented [[Operation Long Jump]], an attempt by the [[Nazis]] to murder [[Joseph Stalin]], [[Winston Churchill]], and [[Franklin Roosevelt]] at the [[Tehran Conference]] in 1943.<ref name=Guardian>{{cite news |title=Soviet spy who foiled Nazi plot to kill allied leaders dies aged 93 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/26/soviet-spy-who-foiled-nazi-plot-to-kill-allied-leaders-dies-aged-93-goar-vartanian |access-date=2 December 2019 |work=The Guardian |agency=AFP |date=26 November 2019}}</ref> Vartanian died on 25 November 2019 at the age of 93.<ref name=Guardian/> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Vartanian, Goar}} [[Category:1926 births]] [[Category:2019 deaths]] [[Category:Armenian people]] [[Category:Spies]] {{bio-stub}}