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Julius Rosenberg (May 12, 1918 – June 19, 1953) and Ethel Rosenberg (née Greenglass; September 28, 1915 – June 19, 1953) were an American married couple who were convicted of spying for the Soviet Union, including providing top-secret information about American radar, sonar, jet propulsion engines, and nuclear weapon designs.
People executed for spying for the Soviet Union (1 C, 11 P) ... Pages in category "Executed spies" The following 91 pages are in this category, out of 91 total.
Pages in category "Soviet people executed for spying for the United States" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The NKVD soon focused attention on them and began investigating an alleged anti-Soviet conspiracy of German spies in the military, centered around the Air Force and linked to the conspiracies of 1937–1938. Suspects were transferred in early June from the custody of the Military Counterintelligence to the NKVD. Further arrests continued well ...
During the Second World War, the Communist Party USA was a center of Soviet espionage in the United States. After the war, this continued. Espionage historian John Earl Haynes states that the CPUSA was essentially a Soviet "fifth column", though "dried up as a base for Soviet espionage once the administration got serious about internal security ...
There were a succession of Soviet secret police agencies over time. The Okhrana was abolished by the Provisional government after the first revolution of 1917, and the first secret police after the October Revolution , created by Vladimir Lenin 's decree on December 20, 1917, was called " Cheka " (ЧК).
The execution of General Tukhachevsky and the other seven generals severely weakened the Soviet military. This was first seen in the Red Army's disastrous performance in the Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-1940, in which the Soviet military suffered more than 100,000 dead or missing against a smaller and poorly-armed Finnish military. [7]
Martynov provided detailed information about KGB operations, including the identities of Soviet spies operating within the United States and the strategies the KGB employed to recruit and manage agents. His intelligence helped the FBI and CIA identify and neutralize Soviet spies, making him one of the most valuable double agents of his time.