Kitty Harris

Kitty Harris (Unknown – 1966) was a Soviet secret agent and a long-time special courier of the OGPU-NKVD foreign intelligence during the 1930s and 1940s. Mentioned by name in Walter Krivitsky's book I was Stalin's agent, Harris was officially identified in 2001 when her code name 'Ada' or 'Aida' was found in declassified files from the Venona Project. Born to a poor Polish Jewish family, possibly in London, Ontario, between 1893 and 1902, Harris migrated to Winnipeg, Canada, in 1904-1905. She worked in various factories, including a cigar factory and a clothing factory as a seamstress, before joining the Industrial... (continues)