Vasili Mitrokhin soon after defecting from the Soviet Union (Image: PA Wire) Uncovering hundreds of Britons spying for Russiaīoth Norwood and the Cambridge spies were caught because of the Mitrokhin archive. It was that arrest that connects Norwood to the Cambridge spies. M15 tried to find out the identity of Hola, but it wasn't successful until the 1990s. In Glading's notebook he noted Norwood's codename 'Hola' several times. The ring had been run by Percy Glading, co-founder of the British Communist Party, who was caught by MI5 passing on naval secrets. She did, however, escape capture several times notably when another Soviet spy ring was discovered at Woolrich Arsenal in 1937. Ironically, she was allegedly highly critical of nuclear weapons, with nuclear disarmament stickers in her window on the day of her capture. Norwood's spying is credited with bringing the Soviet nuclear weapons program ahead by two years. She would then take a photo using a spy camera which she'd pass on to her KGB handler, having returned the documents back to the safe. She worked as a secretary and would sneak into her boss's office and steal research papers from his safe. Joan Stanley (Sophie Cookson) and Leo Galich (Tom Hughs) in Red Joan (Image: Sunday Mirror)
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