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Suggest you look at the top of the most famous kings of espionage and learn how they have changed in their favor the balance of power in the political, military and world maps.




Nathan Hale



Is considered the first American spy. At home, he became a symbol of the struggle for independence of his people. As a young teacher, patriot, with the start of the American Revolutionary War Hale joined the army. When Washington needed a spy, Nathan made a volunteer. The necessary information he got during the week, but at the last moment signaled not theirs, and the English boat, resulting in the death penalty.

Major John Andre



British intelligence officer was well known in the finest homes in New York during the American War of Independence. After he was caught spy sentenced to death by hanging.

James Armistead Lafayette



Became the first African-American agent during the American Revolution. Its reports have played an important role in the defeat of the British troops at the Battle of Yorktown.

Belle Boyd



Miss Boyd became a spy as 17 years. All the American Civil War had served in the Confederate Dixie, in the North and England. For her invaluable assistance during the campaign in the Shenandoah Valley, General Jackson awarded her the rank of captain, took to his adjutant and allowed to attend all shows of his army.

Emeline Pigott



Served as a Confederate army in North Carolina. Several times she was arrested, but each time after their release back to their activities.

Elizabeth Van Lew



Elizabeth was the most valuable scout northerners during the Civil War in the United States in 1861. After retirement in 1877 until his death was for the family of a Confederate soldier, who once helped to escape.

Thomas Miller Beach



Was a British spy who served the Northern Army during the American Civil War. Officially not been caught, but he had to abandon his espionage activities.

Christian Snook Gyurhrone



Dutch traveler and scholar of Islam made a scientific journey to Arabia, and a year spent in Mecca and Gedeh under the guise of a Muslim lawyer.

Fritz Joubert Duchannes



For 10 years he was able to organize the country's largest German spy network. He explained it revenge for the burning of the British his family estate. The last years of his life spent in poverty spy in a city hospital.

Mata Hari



Modern prototype of the femme fatale. Being an exotic dancer, she was executed for espionage in 1917 in favor of Germany.

Sidney Reilly



British intelligence was given the nickname "King of espionage." Sez organized many conspiracy in connection with what has become very popular in the film industry of the USSR and the West. It is believed that he wrote off with James Bond.

Cambridge Five



The core of the network of Soviet agents in Britain, recruited in 30-ies of XX century in the University of Cambridge. When the network was opened, none of its members has not suffered punishment. Participants: Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, Anthony Blunt, Guy Burgess, John Cairncross.

Richard Sorge



Soviet spy during the Second World War. He also worked as a journalist in Germany and Japan, where he was arrested on charges of espionage and hanged.

Virginia Hall



The American went to volunteer for special operations during the Second World War. Working in occupied France, Hall coordinated the activities of the Resistance in Vichy, was a reporter «New York Post», and was listed in Gestapo lists of "most wanted".

Nancy Grace August Wake



With the German invasion of France with her husband, she joined the ranks of the resistance, becoming an active member. Fear of being caught, Nancy herself left the country, having appeared in London in 1943. There she was trained as a professional scout and returned to France a year later. Has been organizing the supply of arms and the recruitment of new members of the Resistance. After her husband's death, Nancy returned to London.

George Koval



Soviet atomic spy procured for Moscow in the mid-1940s valuable information on the Manhattan nuclear project in the United States and has recently been awarded posthumously for the title of Hero of Russia.

Elias Bazna



He worked as a valet British Ambassador in Turkey. Using a habit to take the Ambassador of the Embassy of secret documents home, began to withdraw from them and sell photocopies of the German attaché Ludwig Moyzisch.

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg



Spouses Julius and Ethel, American Communists, were the only civilians death row in the United States for the transfer to the USSR American nuclear secrets.

Klaus Fuchs



German nuclear physicist in 1933 came to England. Klaus worked on top-secret British atomic bomb project and later on American project "Manhattan". Was arrested and jailed after it became clear that he passed information to the Soviet Union.

Oleg Penkovsky



The press called it a "spy who saved the world from a third world war." As a CIA agent, passed secret information the US and the UK from 1961 to 1962. It is assumed that a secret passage to the West Penkovsky was caused by his resentment at unfair attitude.

Raymond Moby



British Conservative Minister for cash consideration provided information intelligence services of Czechoslovakia in 1960. Cooperation with the Czechoslovak intelligence service lasted for 10 years.

Christopher Boyce and Andrew Lee



After consulting with his longtime friend, Andrew Lee, Boyce began selling Soviet secret documents by satellites and cryptographic cause to which he had access.

Robert Hanssen



FBI agent was convicted of spying for the Soviet Union and Russia and sentenced to life imprisonment. Hanssen has collaborated with the Soviet and Russian intelligence since 1979 until his arrest in 2001. The consequence has been proven 13 episodes of espionage.

Aldrich Ames



Head of Soviet foreign counterintelligence department of the CIA for 10 years worked in the Soviet Union and Russia. With it, was arrested a whole galaxy of CIA agents in the ranks of the KGB and the GRU.

Jonathan Pollard



American Jew, a former analyst at the Naval Intelligence US was convicted of spying for Israel and sentenced to life imprisonment.

Source: rescue1941.livejournal.com