Soviet embassy in Athens, Greece, advised Federal Bureau of Investigation agents that Berzin informed him prior to Barmine's 1937 defection that Owen Lattimore, head of the U.S. Office of War Information in the Pacific during World War II, was a Soviet agent. Berzin appears in the Venona decrypts under the code name "Starik" ( – "Old man"). References External links Visvaldis Mangulis, Latvia in the Wars of the 20th Century, Chapter VII 1889 births 1938 deaths People from Cēsis Municipality People from Kreis Riga Bolsheviks Executive Committee of the Communist International Cheka officers Cheka GRU officers Russian military personnel of World War I Latvian people of the Spanish Civil War Soviet people of the Spanish Civil War Recipients of the Order of Lenin Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner Recipients of the Order of the Red Star Latvian Operation of the NKVD Great Purge victims from Latvia Soviet rehabilitations