Lona Cohen

AKA: Helen Kroger; Leontina Cohen

In Exile

Date of birth:11. 01. 1913

Date of death:23. 12. 1992

Age:79^{† Deceased}

Gender:Female

Era:1950s

State:New York

Time Imprisoned:

8 Years 7 Months

In Exile For 42 years 11 months 22 days

Support

Communism Communist Party USA

Biography

Lona Cohen was an American Communist and Soviet intelligence courier. As the Rosenberg investigation reached the network in 1950, she and her husband Morris left New York through Mexico and eventually reached the Soviet bloc. Under the identities Helen and Peter Kroger, the Cohens operated an illegal radio and document relay for a Soviet intelligence network in Britain. British authorities arrested them in January 1961, and a court sentenced each to twenty years under the Official Secrets Act. They were released in an October 1969 spy exchange and sent to the Soviet Union, where Lona Cohen remained until her death.