Jenifer Hart
Age: 91
Summary: British
civil servant and Oxford don who was accused of having been a Soviet
spy (a charged she denied) while she was assigned to the Home Office,
where she became private secretary to Permanent Undersecretary Sir
Alexander Maxwell in 1939 after having passed the Civil Service
entrance exam third from the top of the list (the first woman to do so
well) in 1936, who was interviewed twice by MI5 about her contacts
while in the Home Office after she agreed talk about her Communist past
on the BBC-TV Timewatch
program in 1983, but who denied passing any information to the Soviets
and also played a key role in the surveillance of Soviet spy Aleksei
Doschenko when he was expelled from London in 1940.
Cause of Death: Natural causes
Born: January 29, 1914
Died: March 19, 2005
Location: Oxford, England
