Victor Norris Hamilton (July 15, 1919 – November 11, 1997)[1] was an American cryptologist who defected to the Soviet Union in 1963.
Hamilton was born as Fouzi Demitri Hindaly in Jaffa, in the British Mandate of Palestine,[2] in July 1919.
(all other countries) unit, assigned to study and break coded communications of Middle Eastern governments, including (but not limited to) those involving the Soviet Union.
[4] Hamilton was confined for schizophrenia in the USSR, initially at a Kremlin hospital for high officials.
[2] He was rediscovered there in 1992 by the Ark Project, which sought US POWs who might be in Soviet hands once the USSR fell.