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Convicted of espionage in 1951, they were executed by the federal government of the United States in 1953 using New York's state execution chamber in Sing Sing in Ossining, [1] New York, becoming the first American civilians to be executed for such charges and the first to be executed during peacetime.
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.
Order of the NKVD on Anti-Soviet Turkic-Tatarian Nationalist Organizations. The order states that terrorist nationalists took the leading positions in Azerbaijan, Crimea, Tatarstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kazakhstan, and requires a step-up of arrests there June 11 Case of Trotskyist Anti-Soviet Military Organization is heard by the Supreme ...
Overall, national minorities targeted in these campaigns composed 36% [70] of the victims of the Great Purge, despite being only 1.6% [70] of the Soviet Union's population. 74% [70] of ethnic minorities arrested during the Great Purge were executed while those sentenced during the Kulak Operation had only a 50% chance of being executed, [70 ...
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).
Theodore Maly (1894 – 20 September 1938) was a former Roman Catholic priest and Soviet intelligence officer during the 1920s and 1930s. He lived illegally in the countries where he worked for the NKVD and was one of the Soviet Union's most effective spymasters.
Scores of Soviet Jews were dismissed from their jobs, arrested, sent to the Gulag, or executed. The "plot" was presumably invented by Stalin. A few days after Stalin's death on 5 March 1953, Beria freed all the arrested doctors, announced that the entire matter was fabricated, and arrested the MGB functionaries directly involved.
Additional decrees followed, adding more power. On April 11, 1919, the Kolchak government adopted Regulation 428, "About the dangers of public order due to ties with the Bolshevik Revolt", which was published in the Omsk newspaper Omsk Gazette (no. 188 of July 1919). It provided a term of 5 years of prison for "individuals considered a threat ...