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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.
While serving as a Lieutenant Colonel in the KGB, he was stationed in 1980 at the Soviet official offices in Washington, D.C. By 1982, he had become a double agent and was passing intelligence to the CIA and FBI under the code name "Gentile". He was executed in Moscow on May 28, 1987, at the age of 41. [1] [2]
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 .
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 Soviet funding ended in 1989 when Gus Hall condemned the initiatives taken by Mikhail Gorbachev. [42] In 1952, Jack and Morris Childs—both American-born ex-Soviet spies—became FBI double agents, and informed on the CPUSA for the rest of the Cold War, monitoring the Soviet funding and communications with Moscow. [43] [44]
[1] This is a list of people who have been accused of, or confirmed as working for intelligence organizations of the Soviet Union and Soviet-aligned countries against the United States. In some cases accusations are considered well-supported or were otherwise confirmed or admitted, but other cases are controversial or contested.
Robert Philip Hanssen (April 18, 1944 – June 5, 2023) was an American Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services against the United States from 1979 to 2001.
Spied for and sold secret documents to the Soviet Union. Was known to have a photographic memory and as such never passed any physical documents on. 1983: Life sentence (Released November 24, 2015) Earl Edwin Pitts: American: Accused of spying for the Soviet Union and Russia, and pleaded guilty to conspiring and attempting to commit espionage: 1997