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[[Image:Koenl.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Lona Cohen]]
[[Image:Koenl.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Lona Cohen]]
'''Lona Theresa Cohen''', '''Leontine''', a.k.a. in London as '''Helen Kroger''' (11 January 1913 - 23 December 1992) was born in [[Massachusetts]] and died in a nursing home for retired KGB agents in [[Moscow]]. Lona Cohen was an American citizen and member of the [[Communist Party of the United States of America]] (CPUSA). She was recruited into Soviet espionage in 1939 by her husband [[Morris Cohen (Soviet spy)|Morris Cohen]], and worked for Soviet case officers, including [[Anatoli Yatskov]], out of the New York [[Rezidentura]] during [[World War II]].
'''Lona Theresa Cohen''', '''Leontine''', a.k.a. in London as '''Helen Kroger''' (11 January 1913 - 23 December 1992) was born in [[Massachusetts]] and died in a nursing home for retired [[KGB]] agents in [[Moscow]]. Lona Cohen was an American citizen and member of the [[Communist Party of the United States of America]] (CPUSA). She was recruited into Soviet espionage in 1939 by her husband [[Morris Cohen (Soviet spy)|Morris Cohen]], and worked for Soviet case officers, including [[Anatoli Yatskov]], out of the New York [[Rezidentura]] during [[World War II]].
Lona ran a network that included engineers and technicians at munitions and aviation plants in the New York area after Morris had been drafted in 1942. A source of heres smuggled a working model of a new machine gun out of a munition plant. The [[FBI]] discovered later that Lona had worked at two defense plans, the Public Metal Company in New York City in 1941 and the Aircraft Screw Products plant on Long Island in 1943.
Lona ran a network that included engineers and technicians at munitions and aviation plants in the New York area after Morris had been drafted in 1942. A source of heres smuggled a working model of a new machine gun out of a munition plant. The [[FBI]] discovered later that Lona had worked at two defense plans, the Public Metal Company in New York City in 1941 and the Aircraft Screw Products plant on Long Island in 1943.