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Anthony Blunt was born on 26 September 1907 in Bournemouth, which at the time was in Hampshire but is now in Dorset.He was the third and youngest son of a vicar, the Revd (Arthur) Stanley Vaughan Blunt (1870–1929), and his wife, Hilda Violet (1880–1969), daughter of Henry Master of the Madras civil service. [7]
John Cairncross (25 July 1913 – 8 October 1995) was a British civil servant who became an intelligence officer and spy during the Second World War.As a Soviet double agent, he passed to the Soviet Union the raw Tunny decryptions that influenced the Battle of Kursk.
Sergei Viktorovich Skripal (Russian: Сергей Викторович Скрипаль, IPA: [sʲɪrˈɡʲej ˈvʲiktərəvʲɪtɕ skrʲɪˈpalʲ]; born 23 June 1951) is a former Russian military intelligence officer who acted as a double agent for the United Kingdom's intelligence services during the 1990s and early 2000s. [3]
Beginning in 1938, Straight carried on a covert relationship with Iskhak Akhmerov, the KGB spy. [4] In 1940, Straight went to work in the Eastern Division of the United States Department of State . In 1942, Straight joined the United States Army Air Forces , where he served as the pilot of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress , although he never saw ...
Anna Vasilyevna Chapman (Russian: А́нна Васи́льевна Ча́пман; born Anna Vasilyevna Kushchenko, 23 February 1982) is a former Russian intelligence agent, media personality, and model who was arrested in the United States on 27 June 2010 as part of the Illegals Program, a Russian spy ring.
Alexander Litvinenko was born in the Russian city of Voronezh in 1962. [18] After he graduated from a Nalchik secondary school in 1980, he was drafted into the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs as a Private.
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).
Rudolf Ivanovich Abel (Russian: Рудольф Иванович Абель) was the alias of William August Fisher (11 July 1903 – 15 November 1971), a Soviet intelligence officer, created to alert his Soviet KGB handlers when Fisher was arrested in the USA on charges of espionage by the FBI in 1957.