Robert Gordon Switz

Robert Gordon Switz was a spy for Soviet intelligence.

Career

Switz was a "wealthy American who converted to communism".[1]

As a spy for the Soviet, Switz's role in espionage was to "gather French defense information for the benefit of Soviet intelligence". In 1933, Switz was arrested in France.

Switz escaped prosecution by cooperating with investigators from La Sûreté nationale. His arrest led to the unraveling of an espionage network that included Lydia Stahl. Most of the information collected concerned French armaments, and was a form of industrial espionage.

See also

Lydia Stahl

References

  1. ↑ See Douglas Porch, The French Secret Service: From the Dreyfus Affair to the Gulf War. p. 128 (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 1995).
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