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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Aldrich Ames
Spy
26-Mar-1941   CIA agent, divulged names to the Soviets
Rudolf Bahro
Philosopher
18-Nov-1935 5-Dec-1997 The Alternative in Eastern Europe
Naaman Belkind
Spy
1889 16-Dec-1917 Israeli spy
Anita Berber
Actor
10-Jun-1899 10-Nov-1928 Scarlet whore of Berlin
Christopher Boyce
Spy
16-Feb-1953   The Falcon
Geraldine Brooks
Novelist
14-Sep-1955   March
John Burns
Journalist
4-Oct-1944   New York Times correspondent
Eli Cohen
Spy
26-Dec-1924 18-May-1965 Israel's greatest spy
Peter Cundall
TV Personality
1-Apr-1927   Host of Gardening Australia, 1989-2008
Nicholas Daniloff
Journalist
30-Dec-1934   Journalist jailed by Soviet Union
Daniel Ellsberg
Government
7-Apr-1931   Pentagon Papers source
Klaus Fuchs
Spy
29-Dec-1911 28-Jan-1988 Manhattan Project scientist, spy for USSR
Erich Gimpel
Spy
25-Mar-1910 3-Sep-2010 Agent 146
David Greenglass
Spy
2-Mar-1922   Gave atomic secrets to Julius Rosenberg
Robert Hanssen
Spy
18-Apr-1944   Russian mole inside the FBI
Mata Hari
Spy
7-Aug-1876 15-Oct-1917 Framed by the Germans
Arvid Harnack
Spy
24-May-1901 22-Dec-1942 Hanged by the Nazis for espionage
Mildred Fish Harnack
Spy
16-Sep-1902 16-Feb-1943 Guillotined by the Gestapo
Adoniram Judson
Linguist
9-Aug-1788 12-Apr-1850 Missionary, Burmese lexicographer
Abdul Qadeer Khan
Physicist
1935   Father of Pakistani nuclear bomb
Ryszard Kuklinski
Spy
13-Jun-1930 10-Feb-2004 Polish Cold War era spy who worked with CIA
Daulton Lee
Spy
1952   The Snowman
Kazimir Malevich
Painter
23-Feb-1879 15-May-1935 Founder of Suprematist school
Georgi Markov
Victim
1-Mar-1929 11-Sep-1978 Killed with a ricin-tipped umbrella
Samuel Pepys
Author
23-Feb-1633 26-May-1703 London diarist
Jonathan Pollard
Spy
7-Aug-1954   Spied for Israel
Francis Gary Powers
Military
17-Aug-1929 1-Aug-1977 U2 shot down over the Soviet Union
Oskar Schindler
Activist
28-Apr-1908 9-Oct-1974 Saved over 1000 from Nazis
Richard Sorge
Spy
4-Oct-1895 7-Nov-1944 Warned Stalin of Operation Barbarossa
John Vanbrugh
Playwright
24-Jan-1664 26-Mar-1726 The Provok'd Wife
Carl von Ossietzky
Activist
3-Oct-1889 4-May-1938 German pacifist, Nobel Prize recipient
Raoul Wallenberg
Activist
4-Aug-1912 16-Jul-1947 Worked to save Hungarian Jews
Simon Winchester
Journalist
28-Sep-1944   The Professor and the Madman


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