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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.
Anna Vasilyevna Chapman (Russian: А́нна Васи́льевна Ча́пман; born Anna Vasilyevna Kushchenko, 23 February 1982) is a former Russian intelligence agent, media personality, and model who was arrested in the United States on 27 June 2010 as part of the Illegals Program, a Russian spy ring.
The couple became spies because of their communist beliefs. They were both arrested in Britain in 1961, and convicted of espionage for the Soviet Union the following year. After serving part of a prison sentence, Lona Cohen and her husband were exchanged by the British in 1969. They lived the remainder of their lives in Moscow, teaching spy skills.
The children of two Russian intelligence agents, who were among the detainees released as part of a historic prisoner swap, only discovered their nationality when they were being flown to Moscow ...
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The press dubbed 1985 the "Year of the Spy" due to the discovery of multiple spies and spy rings, [58] many of them passing information to the Soviet Union, such as John Anthony Walker and Ronald Pelton. [58] [59] The New York Times reported in 1987 that the Walker spy ring was "described as the most damaging Soviet spy ring in history."
Maria Rosa Mayer Munos and her husband Ludwig Gisch were an Argentine couple who had lived in the Slovenian capital since 2017, each running a company and leading a quiet life in a quiet ...
American-Russian Convicted for illegally exporting microelectronics from the U.S.A. to Russia July 21, 2016 10-year sentence [1] James Hall III: American: Signals analyst who sold eavesdropping and code secrets to East Germany and the Soviet Union from 1983 to 1988: July 20, 1989: 40-year sentence Robert Hanssen: American