Gohar Vardanyan given full military honors in Moscow funeral

The funeral of WWII-era spy Gohar Vardanyan is currently taking place in Moscow, Russia.

President of Armenia Armen Sarkissian, Acting Director of the Armenian National Security Service Eduard Martirosyan and a Ministry of Defense delegation led by Major General A. Martikyan are attending the funeral.

A live broadcast by TASS from outside the cemetery showed Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Russia Sergei Naryshkin greeting Sarkissian.

Vardanyan is being buried with full military honors as guards of honor are in formation.

Gohar Vardanyan died aged 93 on Monday.

Gohar Vardanyan and her late husband, Gevork (died in 2012 at the age of 87) were involved in foiling Operation Long Jump — a Nazi plot to kill the “Big Three” (Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin) while the Allied leaders were in Tehran for their first meeting during World War II in 1943. They both were undercover Soviet intelligence officers.