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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.
Soviet people executed for spying for the United States (5 P) Pages in category "Executed spies" The following 91 pages are in this category, out of 91 total.
Soviet sculptor Ernst Neizvestny said that he had been told by the director of the Donskoye Cemetery crematorium "how Penkovsky [had been] executed by 'fire'", i.e., by being burnt. [19] A similar description was later included in Ernest Volkman's popular history book about spies, Tom Clancy 's novel Red Rabbit , and in Viktor Suvorov's book ...
Vladimir Vetrov was born in 1932 and grew up within the Soviet Union. After college, where he studied electronic engineering, he was enlisted in the KGB.. He lived in France for five years, beginning in 1965, when posted there as a Line X officer working for the KGB's 'Directorate T', which specialized in obtaining information about advanced science and technology from western countries.
A well-known Soviet case was of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the first US citizens convicted and executed for espionage during peacetime. The married couple lived in New York City and were accused of spying for the Soviet Union and sending information regarding radar, sonar, jet propulsion engines, and sending nuclear weapon designs.
Ames was ineligible for a death sentence due to the uproar about the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were convicted of carrying out espionage for the Soviet Union and were executed at Sing Sing in Ossining, New York, in June 1953. Following Ames' espionage, however, Congress reinstated the death penalty for foreign espionage.
Robert Philip Hanssen (April 18, 1944 – June 5, 2023) was an American Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services against the United States from 1979 to 2001. His espionage was described by the U.S. Department of Justice as "possibly the worst intelligence disaster in U.S. history". [2]
Pages in category "People executed for spying for the Soviet Union" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .