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2 unusual facts about Lydia Stahl


Lydia Stahl

She remained in New York until 1933, when she returned to Paris to work for the apparatus which included Robert Gordon Switz.

She befriended the Finnish writer Hella Wuolijoki and was a regular visitor to her estate Marleback in Southern Finland, which was a meeting place for leftist intellectuals and politicians.


Arvid Jacobson

Jacobson was arrested in October 1933, along with his wife, and he promptly confessed to his role as an agent and revealed the existence of another Soviet apparatus working in Paris which included Lydia Stahl and Robert Gordon Switz.


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