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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.
Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky (Russian: Михаил Николаевич Тухачевский, romanized: Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevskiy, IPA: [tʊxɐˈtɕefskʲɪj]; 16 February [O.S. 4 February] 1893 – 12 June 1937), nicknamed the Red Napoleon, [1] was a Soviet general who was prominent between 1918 and 1937 as a military officer and theoretician.
Pages in category "Soviet people executed for spying for the United States" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Soviet Union's efforts extended to nuclear weapons developed in the United States, which were also copied. Many nuclear warheads, advanced explosives, and missiles benefited the Soviet Union’s defense and military systems. Some weapons were even replicated entirely, such as the US Sidewinder missile and the US Redeye missile.
Stalin ordered that the soldiers and officers of the 197th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht), which participated in the execution, should not be taken prisoner. In February, she was identified and was awarded the order of Hero of the Soviet Union. [15] Kosmodemyanskaya's account was repeatedly published in Pravda. Harris writes that " Recognizing ...
Sidney George Reilly MC (/ ˈ r aɪ l i /; c. 1873 [a] – 5 November 1925), known as the "Ace of Spies", was a Russian-born adventurer and secret agent employed by Scotland Yard's Special Branch and later by the Foreign Section of the British Secret Service Bureau, [9] the precursor to the modern British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6/SIS).
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.