Berdecio worked on the staff of the
Office of Naval Intelligence at the US embassy in
Mexico City and was one of several people recruited to assist Soviet intelligence during
World War 2 by
Flora Wovschin, her classmate at
Barnard College. She was later transferred to the
Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (CIAA) in
Washington DC. Her recruitment by Wovschin is documented in three
Venona project decrypts. Russian archives in
Moscow also show the
KGB querying the
Comintern for information on Davis. == Personal life ==