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Convicted for spying for the United Kingdom and its allies during the First World War: November 1916: Life sentence (released 2 years later) Clayton J. Lonetree: American Convicted for providing classified information to the Soviet Union while stationed in Moscow as a guard at the U.S. Embassy August 21, 1987
Person Notes Reference(s) Carmelo Borg Pisani: Carmelo Borg Pisani was a Maltese-born artist and Italian Fascist who, on being discovered during an espionage mission in Malta, was found guilty by a British war tribunal and executed for treason.
Aztecs used Pochtecas, people in charge of commerce, as spies and diplomats, and had diplomatic immunity. Along with the pochteca, before a battle or war, secret agents, quimitchin , were sent to spy amongst enemies usually wearing the local costume and speaking the local language, techniques similar to modern secret agents.
Klaus Fuchs, exposed in 1950, is considered to have been the most valuable of the atomic spies during the Manhattan Project.. Cold War espionage describes the intelligence gathering activities during the Cold War (c. 1947–1991) between the Western allies (primarily the US and Western Europe) and the Eastern Bloc (primarily the Soviet Union and allied countries of the Warsaw Pact). [1]
A spymaster is a leader of a group of spies or an intelligence agency. [1] List of spymasters. This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items.
That year, 56 people were convicted of espionage in Detroit. ... John Bugas, the FBI agent who caught Hitler’s spies in World War II. Show comments. Advertisement. Advertisement.
The Rosenbergs were the only American civilians executed for espionage during the Cold War. [56] [57] [58] The funeral services were held in Brooklyn on June 21. The Rosenbergs were buried at Wellwood Cemetery, a Jewish cemetery in Pinelawn, New York. [52] The Times reported that 500 people attended and some 10,000 stood outside: [59]
The Ritchie Boys, part of the U.S. Military Intelligence Service (MIS) at the War Department, were an organization of soldiers in World War II with sizable numbers of German and Austrian recruits who were used primarily for interrogation of prisoners on the front lines and counter-intelligence in Europe.