Marietta Voge

Marietta Voge, née Mariette Jirku (1918–July 1984)[1] was a noted parasitologist, author and educator at the University of California, Berkeley.

Born in Yugoslavia, Voge received her Ph.D. in 1950 from UC Berkeley. She co-authored a textbook with Edward Markell on the subject of medical parasitology, now in its ninth edition as Markell and Voge's Medical Parasitology ( ISBN 978-0721647937). At the time of its first publication in 1958, Voge was an assistant professor at the UCLA School of Medicine.[2] Voge served in 1976 as president of the American Society of Parasitologists.[3]

Voge was married to Noel Voge and was the daughter of Augustina Stridsberg, who worked for Soviet intelligence during World War II,[4] and Voge worked for the KGB San Francisco office according to the Venona project reports.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "University of California: In Memoriam, 1988". cdlib.org. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
  2. ↑ "Markell and Voge's Medical Parasitology". google.com. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
  3. ↑ "Past Officers". amsocparasit.org. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
  4. ↑ Vassiliev notebooks index ”"DAUGHTER [DOCH'] (cover name in Venona): Marietta Voge. Venona San Francisco KGB, 24, 29, 39, 46, 57, 84; Venona Special Studies, 99." , "DOCH and DOCH' [DAUGHTER] (cover name in Venona): Marietta Voge. Venona San Francisco KGB, 23–24, 29, 38–39, 46, 57, 83–84; Venona Special Studies, 99.", "Voge, Mariette: Soviet intelligence source/agent. Wife of Noel Voge, née Jirku, daughter of Augustina Striksberg/KLARA. Cover name in Venona: DAUGHTER [DOCH'] and KLARA’s daughter. As Voge: As DAUGHTER [DOCH']; Venona San Francisco KGB, 23–24, 29, 38–39, 46, 57, 83–84; Venona Special Studies, 99. As KLARA’s daughter, 45–46.", " CLARA [KLARA] (cover name in Venona): Augustina Stridsberg or a reference to the town of Santa Clara. Venona San Francisco KGB, 83–84." "KLARA [CLARA] (cover name in Venona): Augustina Stridsberg. Venona New York KGB 1944, 141; Venona San Francisco KGB, 23–24, 38–39, 45–46, 57, 83–84 (unclear if a reference to KLARA or to the town of Santa Clara); Venona Special Studies, 36, 103."
  5. ↑ John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, Yale University Press (1999), pgs. 369, 466. ISBN 0-300-08462-5
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