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Richard Gustavovich Sorge (Russian: Рихард Густавович Зорге, romanized: Rikhard Gustavovich Zorge; 4 October 1895 – 7 November 1944) was a German-Russian journalist and Soviet military intelligence officer who was active before and during World War II and worked undercover as a German journalist in both Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan.
Japan: Executed by Japan in 1945 to prevent his recapture by the Soviets Aleksandr Mikhailovich Orlov [1] 1938 Canada: Authenticity of defection disputed [2] Lev Borisovich Helfand [1] 1940 Italy: Igor Grigoryevich Orlov: 1943 Germany: Re-recruited as Soviet agent in 1949 Viktor Andreyevich Kravchenko [1] [2] 1944 United States: Not an ...
Operation Maki Mirage or Maki-Mirage (Russian: Маки-Мираж, romanized: Maki-Mirazh) [1] [2] [3] was a Soviet intelligence operation that involved 1200 plus Soviet intelligence agent-officers, that is, spies of East Asian descent being sent to China, Korea, Manchukuo (existing and under Japanese rule to 1945) and Mongolia (through Kiakhta) to perform intelligence gathering, "special ...
In March 2020, Gordievsky's story was recounted in an episode of Spy Wars With Damian Lewis, on the Smithsonian Channel in the US, streaming on various cable services. The episode, "The Man Who Saved The World", recounts the "years-long effort by Gordievsky to pass Soviet intelligence to the British, all but preventing a nuclear Armageddon ...
He then spent three decades doing espionage activities in Japan, China, India, France, Italy, United States and West Germany. He was awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union medal in 1984. In 2003, relying on declassified documents, Yuri Lvovich Kuznets published a book called Tehran-43 or Operation Long Jump, which detailed Vartanian's role at the ...
Russia’s most famous dissident was detained at Sheremetyevo Airport in January 2021 upon arriving from Germany, where he’d spent five months recuperating from a life-threatening attempt to ...
Harold James “Jim” Nicholson, a 16-year veteran of the CIA, was sentenced to more than 23 years in prison in 1997 for espionage – but he kept up the treason from behind bars, enlisting his ...
Russian Empire: Okhrana: Alfred Redl: 1903–1913 Austria-Hungary; Russian Empire [note 2] Evidenzbureau: Mao Renfeng: 1946–1956 Republic of China: Bureau of Investigation and Statistics: Semyon Semyonov: 1937–1950 Soviet Union: NKVD: Kang Sheng: 1940s–1946 Chinese Communist Party [note 1] Central Social Affairs Department: Hugh Sinclair ...