Gohar and Gevorg Vartanyan. Love of two illegal immigrants
The film "Tehran-43" in an artistic form tells about the events of the Great Patriotic War - about the beautiful love of young intelligence officers and the dangers that threatened all participants who negotiated the opening of the Second Front in Europe. However, the film has little to do with the true events that began long before the meeting of the allies. It is in movies and books that a scout runs with a Browning through the streets. In life, his most reliable weapon is stealth …
Experts say that an illegal scout is not a profession, but a way of life. Any awkward movement, accidentally dropped word, rash behavior can cause the death of not only the scout himself, but also the whole intelligence network, many people. Constant tension, anticipation of danger, willingness to risk their lives - not everyone is capable of this. Considering the special mental properties necessary for such people, the system-vector psychology of Yuri Burlan distinguishes the olfactory vector.
A good intelligence officer can sometimes do more than an army: bypass a whole group of professional radio operators in a radio game, or prevent a terrorist act by saving the lives of three heads of state, as happened during the famous meeting of the leaders of the three powers in Iran.
The film "Tehran-43" in its artistic form tells about the events of the Great Patriotic War - about the beautiful love of young intelligence officers and the dangers that threatened all the participants negotiating the opening of the Second Front in Europe. However, the film has little to do with the true events that began long before the meeting of the allies. It is in the movies and books that a scout runs with a Browning through the streets. In life, his most reliable weapon is stealth.
"Amir" - Gevorg Vartanyan
Gevork Andreevich Vartanyan was born in 1924 in Rostov-on-Don. When the boy was six years old, the family moved to Iran. The head of the family, Andre (Andrei Vasilievich) Vartanyan, according to legend, disguised as a man offended by the Soviet regime, left the country, bought a small confectionery factory and became a major entrepreneur in Tehran. The factory and commercial successes were only a cover for his work for Soviet intelligence.
Sometimes Andre asked his son Gevork to carry out small assignments: to transfer, take, carry … The precocious child soon realized what these requests of his father meant. “You can't hide your thoughts from a person with an olfactory vector - he senses them,” explains Yuri Burlan's system-vector psychology.
All the children of the Vartanyans were brought up with a sense of responsibility for the Soviet people and in great love for the USSR. Only Gevork took over his father's experience, becoming a recruiting agent. For him, there was no question of choosing a profession. In 1940, when he was sixteen, Gevork met Ivan Ivanovich Agayants. The main station of Soviet intelligence in the Middle East operated in Tehran, I. I. Agayants headed it.
Gevork, who received the pseudonym "Amir", was preparing to carry out his first assignment. The teenager was instructed to organize a reconnaissance detachment.
Light cavalry
Peers of Gevork-Amir, like himself, were born in the USSR and remained patriots, especially during the Great Patriotic War. It was not difficult to unite them into an anti-fascist group.
At lectures on systemic vector psychology, Yuri Burlan talks about the mechanisms of consolidation using the example of a primitive flock. The urethral chief attracts the flock with the strong scent of his pheromones, giving it a sense of security and safety. The chief's olfactory advisor, on the contrary, by the complete absence of smell, causes people to feel an unclear threat and a desire to be useful to the flock, fulfilling their specific role according to the principle "from each according to his ability."
The innate sense of smell and intuition of the very young Gevork prompted him to make the right decision in choosing the members of the group, who were assigned tasks corresponding to their natural properties. The teenagers, "recruited" by Amir, did not doubt the correctness of his actions and completely trusted him. Due to the natural "distribution of roles" in the "Light Cavalry" there were practically no failures.
Recruitment agent
The British opened a reconnaissance school in Tehran in order to prepare agents for transfer to the Soviet Union. Gevork was ordered to infiltrate there. The school was hidden under the guise of a repair shop, and classes were taught by qualified British intelligence officers. The son of the manufacturer did not arouse suspicion and was enrolled in an English school, where he studied the unique methods of British residency.
The mastered methods of work of one of the best intelligence services in the world more than once helped Gevork Andreevich to evade surveillance and suspicion.
Then he will say: “Any businessman should be involved in politics in order to know in what direction to direct his business. Under this pretext, I managed to obtain the most secret information from reliable sources."
A person with developed properties of the skin-olfactory ligament of vectors is equally successful in exploration and in business. Recruitment agent Gevorg Vartanyan used both of these directions in his resident activities.
Gevork Andreevich and his wife Gohar worked for many years in the residency of Soviet intelligence in Iran and only in the 50s did they return to the USSR to graduate from the Yerevan Institute of Foreign Languages, come to Moscow, get a new intelligence mission and go on a business trip that lasted almost 30 years. Over the years, they changed countries, cities, homes, professions, religions, and Gohar even had to marry Gevork three times, as circumstances required.
Anita and Anri
The pseudonym "Amir", by which the young intelligence officer Gevorg Vartanyan was known in the 1940s, remained gathering dust in the archives of Soviet intelligence. Gevork met Gohar in the same Light Cavalry. She turned out to be the sister of one of Amir's “recruited” friends and the only girl in the group.
Gohar illustrates the image of a skin-visual female scout, a daytime guard of the pack, about whom Yuri Burlan talks about at lectures on the visual vector from system-vector psychology.
Skin-visual girls from childhood are "our boys" in boyish companies. Not a single game of war and not a single reconnaissance in the neighboring yard can do without their "medical assistance". Growing up, they transfer their childhood fun into real life, becoming sisters of mercy, signalmen or professional intelligence officers, like Gohar Vartanyan.
Skin-visual women do not have a maternal instinct, and the prohibition on having children, which applies to scouts, is accepted calmly. Gevork and Gohar Vartanyan have no heirs. Their life together was devoted to moving from country to country and the constant risk associated with illegal work. It is not customary to talk about it, because most of the operations carried out by Anita and Anri, under such names the Vartanyan spouses are known to Soviet intelligence, will never be made public.
Tehran-43
In the late 30s, when Gevork and Gohar lived in Tehran as children, Iran was called the Middle Eastern Switzerland, this country was so calm and attractive for wealthy Europeans. Many of them managed to transfer their capital here, on which they continued to lead their usual way of life.
The Soviet Union had long-standing ties with Iran, dating back to the time of the Treaty of Peace and Good Neighborly Relations concluded by Alexander Griboyedov. During the war, allied humanitarian aid went through the territory of Iran to the USSR. It was extremely important for the Soviets to strengthen their positions here.
Luxurious cars on the streets of Tehran and expensive restaurants coexisted with impoverished neighborhoods, and the capital itself spoke all European languages. In such a motley crowd it was easy for anyone to get lost. An invisible intelligence war was going on in the city, and the Soviet special services were working no less seriously. Abwehr's spies did not miss the opportunity to be there.
The German colony in Tehran numbered more than 20 thousand people out of the total population of Iran at 750 thousand. Among them were many anti-fascists and those who hoped to sit out the hard times of Hitler, far from the war. Iran played a significant role in Hitler's plans. Iran is a country of oil and strategic ties; a direct route to India stretched from it.
Beginning in 1941, Stalin repeatedly appealed to US President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Churchill with a demand to open a Second Front in Europe. The West ignored these demands, taking a wait and see attitude and counting on the defeat of the Red Army, but agreed to help the Soviet Union with the supply of weapons, and there was no question of sending its soldiers to Europe.
Failure of Operation Long Jump
In 1943, the situation changed. Behind were the battle for Moscow, Stalingrad and the disastrous defeat of the Germans at the Kursk Bulge. The outcome of the war was actually a foregone conclusion. And already the West asked Stalin to meet in order to agree on the opening of the Second Front and the final defeat of Germany.
Now Stalin was the master of the situation and could dictate terms to the allies. Morocco, Cyprus or Alaska proposed by them as places for negotiations did not suit him. None of these countries was included in the circle of interests of the Soviet Union, and in Iran, the USSR was conducting active intelligence. There, a meeting of the leaders of the three powers was scheduled for November 1943.
The preparations were carried out in complete secrecy, but the leak nevertheless occurred, and another country, Germany, began to prepare for the upcoming meeting. It was important for Hitler to disrupt the negotiations at all costs. Operation "Long Jump" to eliminate the big three was led by Otto Skorzeny.
The attack was scheduled for November 30, 1943, Churchill's birthday, when the Big Three would gather at the British Embassy. Amir's group was instructed to find the landing force thrown out for the operation.
Neither British nor American intelligence was aware of how the tragedy had been avoided. They know only one thing - the assassination attempt was averted by the Soviet station in Iran.
Experienced German scouts could not help but notice the annoying teenagers riding their bicycles through the streets of Tehran. Yet they underestimated these Light Cavalry cyclists who played a leading role in disrupting Operation Long Jump. In addition to exposing the fascist saboteurs, Amir's group managed to identify more than 400 German residents.
Eternal love, we were faithful to her …
In 1986, Gohar Levonovna and Gevork Andreevich returned to their homeland, and in 2000 they removed the "secrecy label" from the Vartanyans. They were allowed to "publicize". Books and articles have been written about them, films have been made. Anita and Anri, one of the rare happy married couples who dedicated their lives to illegal work, continued to exist.
They were in no hurry to retire, and for many years passed on their experience to the younger generation of intelligence officers. In 2012, Hero of the Soviet Union Gevork Andreevich passed away, ending the great era of outstanding intelligence officers.
Gohar Levonovna, a veteran of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, which made a huge contribution to ensuring the country's national interests and security, recently turned 90 years old. As befits a realized skin-visual woman, Gohar Vartanyan is elegant, beautiful and active.
