Robert Gordon Switz

Robert Gordon Switz was born in 1904 in East Orange, New Jersey, the son of Theodore Switz, a naturalized Russian, and Genevieve Switz. {{cite news == Career ==

Switz went abroad again to France, where he obtained an airplane pilot's license, then trained at Roosevelt Field on Long Island.). In October 1933, Finnish-American Arvid Jacobson was arrested in Finland, whose government declared that Jacobson and Switz belonged to the same Soviet network between United States, Canada, France, Sweden, Norway, Estonia, and Latvia. {{cite news On September 27–28, 1948, and again on February 27 and March 1, 1950, Switz testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee. ==Personal life==

In 1929, brother Paul F. Switz was a star football player at Yale University and later an economist. {{cite news In 1933, Switz married Marjorie Tilley, daughter of Bertha Tilley and graduate of Vassar College. ==Legacy==

The Switz case ran concurrently with a scandal in France over Ukrainian born embezzler Alexandre Stavisky. "L'affaire Switz" offset any Soviet gains in intelligence into the French military with embarrassment for the USSR as well as the French Communist Party ("PCF"). == See also ==

• British National Archives: Robert Gordon SWITZ / Marjorie Tilley SWITZ William T. Murphy,"The Honeymoon Spies: Robert Gordon Switz and Marjorie Tilley," American Intelligence Journal, 36:1 (2019),75-98.