Goar Vartanian

Goar Levonovna Vartanian (Armenian: Գոհար Լևոնի Վարդանյան Russian: Гоар Левоновна Вартанян; 25 January 1926 – 25 November 2019) was an Armenian woman who spied for the Soviet Union together with her husband Gevork Vartanian.

After her family moved to Tehran, Iran in the early 1930s, she changed her surname to Kandaryan (Russian: Кандарян), where she met her future husband Gevork.

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.

[2] In 1951 the Vartanians moved to the Soviet Union for which they worked as secret agents around the world.

Goar's active career as a spy ended in 1986, but she continued training new recruits afterwards.