Ruzi Nazar
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| Born |
Ruzi Nazar January 1, 1917 Margilan, Uzbekistan |
| Died | April 30, 2015 (aged 98) |
Ruzi Nazar (1 January 1917 – 30 April 2015) was an Uzbek nationalist who spent most of his adult career working for the CIA against the Soviet Union. Born in Soviet Central Asia at the time of the Russian Revolution, Nazar has lived most of his life in exile, first in Germany during World War II and then in the United States and Turkey. During three decades from the early 1950s he was a CIA officer serving for eleven years in the American Embassy in Ankara and then for a decade in Bonn. He also worked on clandestine missions in Teheran in 1979 and Afghanistan in the early 1980s.
Nazar was born in Margilan in the Fergana Valley in what later became Uzbekistan in 1917 and educated at a high school in his hometown and an institute of economics in Tashkent.
Nazar’s father was Jemshid Umirzakoglu, a silk merchant of Margilan whose family had been engaged in silk production for many centuries. His mother Tacinissa came from a family prominent in the Khanate of Kokand before the Russian conquest and sympathetic to nationalist ideas. She had been taught Arabic, Persian, and Russian language and literature and was influenced by the Jadid movement among Muslims in the late 19th and early 20th century Turkic lands under Russia rule which advocated modernization in order to resist Russian rule.
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