Linn Farrish

Linn Markley Farrish (October 3, 1901 – September 11, 1943 or 1944) was an American rugby union player and spy.

Rugby
Farrish competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. He was a member of the American rugby union team, which won the gold medal.

Espionage
Farrish was a member of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II. While acting as the OSS liaison officer to Josip Tito's Yugoslav Partisans he was also allegedly serving Soviet intelligence. Fitzroy Maclean jocularly referred to him in his memoir Eastern Approaches as "my American chief of staff". Farish died in an aircraft crash in the Balkans in September 1944. Farish's code name in Soviet intelligence, and as deciphered in the Venona project is "Attila".

Farish is referenced in the following Venona project decryption:


 * 1397 KGB New York to Moscow, 4 October 1944