Francia Yakovlevna Mitinen, originally Frances Metianen, and also known, erroneously, as "Francia Yakilnilna Mitynen" (born 31 January 1914) was an Australian-born Soviet "illegal" spy for Soviet military intelligence (GRU) in the United States during the 1940s and 1950s. The main alias used by Mitinen in the US was Edna Margaret Patterson. Her codenames, in Soviet intelligence circles included "Салли" "Sally", and "Австралийка" "Avstraliyka", which (literally translated) is the feminine form of "(The) Australian". However, US counterintelligence services usually translated the latter name as "The Australian Woman".
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31 January 1914 (age 111)
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Zodiac | Aquarius |
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