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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.
People executed for spying for the Soviet Union (1 C, 11 P) ... Pages in category "Executed spies" The following 91 pages are in this category, out of 91 total.
The press dubbed 1985 the "Year of the Spy" due to the discovery of multiple spies and spy rings, [58] many of them passing information to the Soviet Union, such as John Anthony Walker and Ronald Pelton. [58] [59] The New York Times reported in 1987 that the Walker spy ring was "described as the most damaging Soviet spy ring in history."
Genrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda (Russian: Ге́нрих Григо́рьевич Яго́да, romanized: Genrikh Grigor'yevich Yagoda, born Yenokh Gershevich Iyeguda; 7 November 1891 – 15 March 1938) was a Soviet secret police official who served as director of the NKVD, the Soviet Union's security and intelligence agency, from 1934 to 1936.
Churchill's order to "set Europe ablaze," was undertaken by the British Secret Service or Secret Intelligence Service, who developed a plan to train spies and saboteurs. Eventually, this would become the SOE or Special Operations Executive , and to ultimately involve the United States in their training facilities.
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 ...
When he turned up to view the stolen jewellery in a location near the Spanish–French border, he was executed by the NKVD. Agabekov's body was never found. In 1938, Korotkov was recalled to Moscow and transferred to the reserve assignment. In 1939 he was dismissed from the NKVD, due to his ties with Gerson, amongst others. [10]
In implemention of Soviet internal policy towards perceived enemies of the Soviet state ("enemies of the people"), untold multitudes of people were sent to GULAG camps, and hundreds of thousands were executed by the NKVD. [citation needed] Formally, most of these people were convicted by NKVD troikas ("triplets") – special courts martial ...