[Dante3]

Nearly all of the translators during the Soviet era were spies, no question about that. Thus, Marina might well have been trained as a spy.

Did Ritter leave his wife for her? If he did, then the probability (purely statistical) that he also is a spy is relatively high, according to a British study.

[kcvl]

Ritter had been married when they met, and he and colleagues insist that his romance with Khatiashvili began after he left Votkinsk.