Maria Wicher was married to Professor

Enos Wicher Enos Regnet Wicher was a professor of physics at Columbia University. He had been married to Rae Kidd, future star of the 1938 nudist movie "The Unashamed," while both were students at the University of Wisconsin 1935-37. During World War II he work ...

and was the mother of

Flora Wovschin Flora Don Wovschin (born 20 February 1923) was a suspected Soviet spy who later renounced her American citizenship. Biography Wovschin was born in New York City. Her mother was Maria Wicher and her stepfather was Enos Regnet Wicher. She attended ...

. The family were all spies for the Soviet Union during the 1940s. Maria had previously been married to Dr. William A. Wovschin, Flora's father. Her code name in Soviet intelligence and in the

Venona project The Venona project was a United States counterintelligence program initiated during World War II by the United States Army's Signal Intelligence Service (later absorbed by the National Security Agency), which ran from February 1, 1943, until Octob ...

is "Dasha".

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Wicher, Maria American spies for the Soviet Union American people in the Venona papers