Alexander Radó (also Alexander Radolfi, Sándor Kálmán Reich, Alexander Rado; born Sándor Radó, Hungarian: [ˈʃaːndor ˈrɒdoː]; 5 November 1899 – 20 August 1981) was a Hungarian cartographer who later became a Soviet military intelligence-agent in World War II. Radó was born into a middle class Jewish family in Újpest (now part of Budapest). He attended school in Budapest, before being drafted into the Austro-Hungarian army in 1917, where he became a radicalised communist. He was involved in communist regime in Hungary until it fell in 1919 and needed to flee to Austria. In 1921, he attended the
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