Victor Norris Hamilton

Victor Norris Hamilton (July 15, 1919 – November 11, 1997) was an American cryptologist who defected to the Soviet Union in 1963. He was discovered in a mental hospital in Russia in 1992, where he had been for 20 years.

Early life Hamilton was born as Fouzi Demitri Hindaly in Jaffa, in the British Mandate of Palestine, in July 1919. He graduated from the American University of Beirut, and married Lilly Bell Drake, an American, in Libya, who persuaded him to go to the United States.

Hamilton secured employment with the NSA in 1957, and worked there for two years in the "A.L.L.O." (all other countries) unit, assigned to study and break coded communications of Middle Eastern governments, including (but not limited to) those involving the Soviet Union.