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25-year prison term followed by five years probation Harold James Nicholson: American: Twice-convicted spy for Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service: June 5, 1997: 23 years 7-month sentence Stewart Nozette: American: Convicted for attempted espionage and fraud against the United States for the government of Israel: 2009: 13-year sentence Ronald ...
Spies who died in prison custody (2 C, 20 P) Pages in category "Incarcerated spies" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total.
Convicted in 1941 of leading the Duquesne Spy Ring, a group of spies for the Nazis which operated in the US from 1939 to 1941 and aimed to obtain information regarding military and industrial sabotage targets; all ring members were convicted in what was the largest espionage case in US history. [8] Herman W. Lang: Unlisted
THE SPY WHO USED HIS SON: 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 ...
But Walker also received more lenient treatment than the man he had recruited—Walker would have been eligible for parole in May 2015 (he died on August 29, 2014, in prison). Whitworth ended up receiving the harshest punishment of the spy quartet, being fined $410,000 and sentenced to 365 years imprisonment. [7] [8]
Aging in prison is hard: Research suggests that every year a person spends in prison takes two years off their life expectancy. People who are incarcerated already tend to have health issues, said ...
Older prisoners arguably age faster than their cohorts on the outside of the institution as a direct result of chronic, long-term diseases and a history more accustomed to drug and alcohol abuse. 8.6 percent of the total U.S. prison population is age 50 or older, and the average age for those considered to be older prisoners is 57. [1]
John Anthony Walker Jr. (July 28, 1937 – August 28, 2014) was a United States Navy chief warrant officer and communications specialist convicted of spying for the Soviet Union from 1967 to 1985 and sentenced to life in prison.