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Robert Henry Best, convicted of treason on April 16, 1948, and served a life sentence. Iva Toguri D'Aquino, who is frequently identified by the name "Tokyo Rose", convicted 1949. Subsequently pardoned by President Gerald Ford.
Alan Conway (1934–1998): American con man best known for impersonating film director Stanley Kubrick. Gregory Caplinger (1953–2009): American conman who perpetrated cancer and investment scams. Prosecuted by the FBI, he died in prison. [20] Bernie Cornfeld (1927–1995): Ran the Investors Overseas Service, alleged to be a Ponzi scheme. [21]
“This is the greatest traitor lineup in global history and its not even close,” one boldly declared on X/Twitter. “This has to be, without a doubt, the most chaotic set of starting Traitors ...
[199] [n 14] The articles, which described Burgess as "the greatest traitor in our history", [202] sought to emphasise Burgess's dissolute lifestyle and, in the opinion of his biographer Sheila Kerr, "did much to prolong and accentuate repressive attitudes to homosexuality" in Britain. [203]
Kim Philby was the quintessential spy, a man who charmed and betrayed in equal measure. To his colleagues in MI6, he was the consummate professional, rising swiftly through the ranks of Britain ...
Roy Nicolas Courlander - a British-born New Zealand soldier with a history of petty crime, he was taken prisoner during the Greece campaign in April 1941. Attracted by his anti-communist views, the Germans recruited him for the Waffen-SS British Free Corps, where Courlander reached the rank of Unterscharführer. [1]
5. James Earl Ray. On April 4, 1968, James Earl Ray shot and killed Martin Luther King Jr. during a speech at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, Tenn., forever changing history.