Enos Wicher
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Enos Regnet Wicher was married to Maria Wicher and was the stepfather of Flora Wovschin. He was a professor at Columbia University. During World War II he worked in the Wave Propagation Group at Columbia's Division of War Research and was alleged to have spied for Soviet intelligence. His code name in Soviet intelligence and in the Venona project is "Kin" (also "Keen").
Wicher was a two-time Wisconsin state chess champion.
[edit] References
- Haynes, John Earl & Klehr, Harvey (2000). Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America. Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-08462-5.
