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'''Marion Davis Berdecio''' born Marion or '''Marian Davis''', and married Berdecio.

Marion Davis Berdecio worked on the staff of the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]] at the United States Embassy in Mexico City and had contact with Soviet diplomats prior to her recruitment into Soviet intelligence. Her recruitment was accomplished during [[World War II]] along with [[Judith Coplon]] by their old schoolmate at Barnard College, [[Flora Don Wovschin|Flora Wovschin]]. Later she worked in the Office of the [[Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs]] (CIAA) and State Department.

[[Comintern]] Archives in Moscow in the 1990s confirm Marion Davis Berdecio's involvement in espionage activities on behalf of the Soviet Union. Marion Davis Berdecio is also referenced in three [[Venona project]] decrypts.

Marion Davis Berdecio's code name in Soviet intelligence and in the Venona project is "Lou" and "Lu".

==Source==
* Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, and Fridrikh Igorevich Firsov, ''The Secret World of American Communism'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995)

==External link==
*[http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/top3mset/4c57372b0b4e8485.html Mexican Financial Development]

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