- Robert Hanssen
Robert Philip Hanssen (b. April 18, 1944) is a former American FBI agent who engaged in spying for the Soviet Union and Russia against the U.S. for a period of at least 15 years. He is currently in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day at the Supermax Federal Penitentiary in Florence, Colorado.. Hanssen was arrested on February 18, 2001, at Foxstone Park near his home in Vienna, Virginia, … - Joseph McCarthy
Joseph Raymond McCarthy was a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin between 1947 and 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period of extreme anti-communist suspicion inspired by the tensions of the Cold War. He was noted for making unsubstantiated claims that there were large numbers of Communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers inside the federal government. - Larry Franklin
Lawrence Anthony Franklin is a U.S. Air Force Reserve colonel who has pleaded guilty to passing information about U.S. policy towards Iran to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the foremost pro-Israel lobbying organization in the U.S, while he was working for the Defense Department in an attempt to get the information passed on to the United States National Security Council, which he could not do through regular Pentagon channels. - Kim Philby
Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby or H.A.R. Philby, (1 January, 1912 – 11 May, 1988) was a high-ranking member of British intelligence, a communist, and spy for the Soviet Union's NKVD and KGB. In 1963, Philby was revealed as a member of the spy ring known as the Cambridge Five, along with Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross. Of the five, Philby is believed to have done the most damage to British and American intelligence, … - Mata Hari
Mata Hari was the stage name of Margaretha Geertruida (Grietje) Zelle (7 August, 1876, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands - 15 October, 1917, Vincennes, France), a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who was executed by firing squad for alleged espionage during World War I. - John Le Carré
John le Carré is the pseudonym of David John Moore Cornwell, an English writer of espionage novels. Le Carré has resided in St Buryan, Cornwall, Great Britain, for more than forty years. - Whittaker Chambers
Jay Vivian (David Whittaker) Chambers was an American writer, editor, Communist party member and spy for the Soviet Union who defected and became an outspoken opponent of communism. He is best known for his testimony about the perjury and espionage of Alger Hiss. - E. Howard Hunt
Everette Howard Hunt, Jr. (October 9 1918 - January 23 2007) was an American author and spy. He worked for the CIA and later the White House under President Richard Nixon. Hunt, with G. Gordon Liddy and others, was one of the White House's "plumbers" - a secret team of operatives charged with fixing "leaks". Information disclosures had proved an embarrassment to the Nixon administration when defense analyst Daniel Ellsberg sent a series of documents, … - Daniel Silva
Daniel Silva (born 1960) is an American author of thriller/espionage novels. - Harvey Klehr
Harvey E. Klehr (born December 25, 1945) is a professor of politics and history at Emory University; he is known for his books on the subject of the American Communist movement, and on Soviet espionage in America (many written jointly with John Earl Haynes). He was born in Newark, New Jersey. He received his undergraduate degree from Franklin and Marshall College in 1967, and his doctorate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1971. - John Earl Haynes
John Earl Haynes is an American historian who is a specialist in 20th century political history in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress; he is known for his books on the subject of the American Communist and anti-Communist movements, and on Soviet espionage in America (many written jointly with Harvey Klehr). He received his undergraduate degree from Florida State University in 1966, … - Gary Powers
Francis "Frank" Gary Powers (August 17, 1929 - August 1, 1977) Capt. USAF; was an American pilot whose U-2 spy plane was shot down while over the Soviet Union, thus causing the U-2 Crisis of 1960. He was born in Jenkins, Kentucky and was raised in Pound, Virginia, on the Virginia-Kentucky border. After graduating from Milligan College in Eastern Tennessee, Gary was commissioned in the United States Air Force in 1950. - James Jesus Angleton
James Jesus Angleton, known to friends and colleagues as Jim and nicknamed "the Kingfisher", was a long-serving chief of the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) counter-intelligence (CI) staff (Associate Deputy Director of Operations for Counterintelligence/ADDOCI). He is known as the "mother" of today's CIA for his deep role in its formation and operations. - Igor Sutyagin
Igor Sutyagin was a Russian academic analyst of military technology. In 1998 he became the head of the subdivision for Military-Technical and Military-Economic Policy at the U.S. and Canada Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, where he worked before he was arrested for treason. With a degree in physics as well as history, Sutyagin worked on topics relating to U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons development, deployment, and control, … - Robert Culp
Robert Martin Culp (born August 16, 1930 in Oakland, California), and a 1947 graduate of Berkeley High School, is an American actor, best known for his work on television. Culp came to national attention with his first role on film as the lead star in the 1957 western television series "Trackdown." After that series ended in 1959, … - Leandro Aragoncillo
Leandro Aragoncillo (born 1959) is a naturalized Filipino-American and a retired Gunnery Sergeant in the United States Marine Corps. He worked as a security specialist at the White House for 31 months from 1999 to 2001, first under Vice President Al Gore and then under Vice President Dick Cheney. Aragoncillo was hired to work at the Army's Ft. Monmouth base in New Jersey in July 2004 and began sending classified information and documents in January 2005, … - Elizabeth Bentley
Elizabeth Terrill Bentley (January 1, 1908-November 18, 1963) was an American spy for the Soviet Union from 1938 until 1945. In 1945 she defected from the Communist Party and Soviet intelligence and became an informer for the U.S. She exposed two networks of spies, ultimately naming over 80 Americans who had engaged in espionage for the Soviets. - Igor Gouzenko
Igor Sergeyevich Gouzenko (January 13, 1919, Rogachev, Soviet Union - June 28, 1982, Mississauga, Canada) was a cipher clerk for the Soviet Embassy to Canada in Ottawa, Ontario. He defected on September 5, 1945 with 109 documents on Soviet espionage activities in the West. Gouzenko's defection exposed Joseph Stalin's efforts to steal nuclear secrets, and the then-unknown technique of planting sleeper agents. - Joseph Finder
Joseph Finder (born 1958 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American writer of several thrillers set in a business environment. His books include "Paranoia", "Company Man", and "Killer Instinct". His novel "High Crimes" became a hit movie starring Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman. Finder's work is informed by his background as a world traveler, Soviet scholar and relentless researcher. - Eric O'Neill
Eric M. O'Neill (born 1973) is a former American FBI operative. He worked as an Investigative Specialist, of the Special Surveillance Group (SSG), and played a role in the arrest and life imprisonment conviction of FBI agent Robert Hanssen for spying on behalf of the Soviet Union and Russia. O'Neill graduated from Gonzaga College High School in Washington, D.C. in 1991, and earned dual degrees in political science and psychology from Auburn University in 1995. - Katrina Leung
Katrina Leung (a.k.a. Chan Man Ying, Chen Wen Ying, Luo Zhongshan, Parlor Maid) was a former high value Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Ministry of State Security (MSS) agent who, on April 9, 2003, was indicted by the United States Department of Justice for "Unauthorized Copying of National Defense Information with Intent to Injure or Benefit a Foreign Nation". Her case was later dismissed on January 6, 2005 because of prosecutorial misconduct. - Richard Sorge
Richard Sorge (Russian: Рихард Зорге) (October 4, 1895 - November 7, 1944) is considered to have been one of the best Soviet spies in Japan before and during World War II, which has gained him fame among spies, and espionage enthusiasts. His NKVD codename was "Ramsay". He was also a journalist, working in Germany and Japan. - Michael Ray Aquino
Michael Ray Aquino is a former intelligence officer in the police force of the Philippines. He is accused of involvement in a 2000 political murder, and more recently, has been accused of helping to transmit classified information from the United States to opposition leaders in the Philippines. - George Blake
George Blake (born Georg Behar, November 11, 1922) is a former Dutch-British spy who was actually a double agent for the Soviet Union. Born in Rotterdam of mixed parentage; his mother was Dutch and his father was an Egyptian who was a naturalized British citizen.. He was born as George Behar to one of the eminent Jewish families of Amsterdam. - William Stephenson
Sir William Samuel Stephenson, CC, MC, DFC, (January 23, 1897 - January 31, 1989) was a Canadian soldier, airman, businessman, inventor, spymaster, and the senior representative of British intelligence for the entire western hemisphere during World War II. Stephenson is best-known by his wartime intelligence codename of Intrepid. Some consider him to be one of the real-life inspirations for James Bond. - Atomic Spies
Atomic Spies and Atom Spies are terms that refer to various people in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada who are thought to have illicitly given information about nuclear weapons production or design to the Soviet Union during World War II and the early Cold War. Exactly what was given, and whether everyone on the list gave it, is still a matter of some scholarly dispute, … - Georgi Markov
Georgi Ivanov Markov (March 1, 1929 - September 11, 1978) was a Bulgarian dissident. Markov originally worked as a novelist and playwright, but in 1969, he defected from Bulgaria, then a communist state under the leadership of President Todor Zhivkov. After moving to the West, he worked as a broadcaster and journalist for the BBC World Service, Radio Free Europe, and the German Deutsche Welle. He criticised the Bulgarian communist regime many times on radio. - Larry C. Johnson
Larry C. Johnson is a former intelligence officer of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, where he served for four years, until 1989, when he became deputy director for transportation security, antiterrorism assistance training, and special operations in the State Department's Office of Counterterrorism, until October 1993. He is the CEO of BERG Associates, LLC (Business Exposure Reduction Group) and is an expert in the fields of terrorism, aviation security, … - Valentin Danilov
Valentin Danilov (born 1951) - Russian physicist. On November 2004, he was found guilty and sentenced to 14 years for espionage. Many scientists and human rights organizations, both in Russia and worldwide claimed this sentence is ridiculous, because the information he passed to China was, in fact, declassified in 1992. Valentin Danilov was the head of the Thermo-Physics Centre at Krasnoyarsk State Technical University. - Yang Jianli
Yang Jianli (b. 1963) is a Chinese dissident with U.S. residency. Yang Jianli, a Tiananmen Square activist in 1989, came to the United States, earned two Ph.D.s (Ph.D., Political Economy, Harvard University and Ph.D. Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley), and then founded the Foundation for China in the 21st Century. Given his political activism, he was blacklisted by the Chinese who also refused to renew his passport. - Oleg Penkovsky
Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky codenamed "Agent Hero" (born April 23, 1919, Vladikavkaz, died May 16, 1963, Soviet Union) was a colonel with Soviet military intelligence (GRU) in the late 1950s and early 1960s who passed important secrets to the West. He is considered one of the best assets the West ever had in the Soviet Union. - Alexander Nikitin
Aleksander Nikitin, a Russian former submarine officer and nuclear safety inspector turned environmentalist, started to co-operate with Norwegian environmental Bellona Foundation in 1994. He was arrested in February 1996 by Russian FSB and charged with treason through espionage for his contributions to a Bellona report on the nuclear safety within the Russian Northern Fleet. - Robert Meeropol
Robert Meeropol is the younger son of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. Meeropol was born in New York City. His father Julius, an electrical engineer, was a member of the Communist Party. His mother Ethel (née Greenglass), a union organizer, was also active in the Communist Party. When Robert was six years old, his parents were executed for conspiracy to commit espionage. - Eli Cohen
Eli Cohen was a celebrated Israeli spy, and is recognized as one of the most successful spies of modern times. Born in Egypt, Cohen contributed to pro-Israeli activities in Egypt during the 1950s, but the most important part of his career began when he was recruited into Israeli military intelligence in 1960. He was given a false identity as a Syrian Arab who was returning to Syria after living in Argentina. To establish his cover, Cohen moved to Argentina in 1961. - Allan Pinkerton
Allan Pinkerton (August 25 1819 - July 1 1884) was a U.S. detective and spy, best known for creating the Pinkerton Agency, the first detective agency. - Christopher Dickey
Christopher Dickey, born August 31, 1951, is the Paris Bureau Chief and Middle East Regional Editor for "Newsweek" magazine. Previously he worked for "The Washington Post" as Cairo Bureau Chief and Central America Bureau Chief. Dickey's Shadowland column, about counter-terrorism, espionage and the Middle East, appears weekly on Newsweek Online. - Ana Montes
Ana Belen Montes is a former senior analyst at the Defense Intelligence Agency in the United States. On September 21 2001, she was arrested and subsequently charged with Conspiracy to Commit Espionage for the government of Cuba. Montes eventually pleaded guilty to spying, and in October, 2002 she was sentenced to a 25-year prison term followed by 5 years of probation - Jane Birkin
Jane Mallory Birkin OBE (born 14 December 1946) is an actress and singer. Birkin was born in London, England to David Birkin, a Royal Navy commander and World War II espionage hero, and Judy Campbell, an actress in Noel Coward musicals. Her great aunt was Freda Dudley Ward, a mistress of Edward VIII while he was Prince of Wales. - Susan Lindauer
Susan P. Lindauer aka Symbol Susan (born 17 July 1963) is an American journalist accused of conspiring to act as a spy for the Iraqi Intelligence Service and engaging in prohibited financial transactions involving the government of Iraq under Saddam Hussein. The prosecution claims that she accepted $10,000 for the work. The exact charge was that she acted as an unregistered agent of Iraq, something akin to an unregistered lobbyist, … - Nicholas Daniloff
Nicholas Daniloff is an American journalist who graduated from Harvard University and was most prominent in the 1980s for his reporting on the Soviet Union. He came to wider international attention on September 2, 1986 when he was arrested in Moscow by the KGB and accused of espionage. The Reagan administration took the position that the Soviets had arrested Daniloff without cause, in retaliation for the arrest three days earlier of Gennadi Zakharov, …
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