Soviet+Spy

​Soviet Spy Alex George, Devin Carroll, Evan Joyce

Richard Sorge ("Ramsay") October 4, 1895 - November 7, 1944 Рихард Зорге Background: Richard Sorge was a spy for the U.S.S.R. during WWII. His codename was "Ramsay". Before the war, he joined the Nazis and became a German journalist in Tokyo, Japan. There, he gave information, such as the Anti-Comintern Pact (which was signed by Germany and Japan in 1936 against the Soviet Union) to the Soviet Union. He also mentioned a launch date on Operation Barbarossa, Germany's plan to invade the Soviet Union. He also sent a message that said the Japanese were not going to invade Russia. Another message said that Japan would attack the Soviet Union when the Germans captured any Russian city on the Volga River. As the war went on, Japan began to suspect a spy ring. Richard Sorge was arrested in October 1941. He was held in Sugamo Prison (a prison in Tokyo) until he was executed on November 7, 1944.