The most successful German spy in the ussr. German spies in the red army during the wwii. Leonid Poleshchuk - twice traitor to the USSR
For some, Milady from the "Three Musketeers" was the embodiment of deceit, and for others - an exemplary scout of Cardinal Richelieu, who managed to fulfill the task of her patron, even while in captivity of Lord Winter.
But in real life there were also enough female spies (for their part, of course, scouts) who successfully performed such operations that James Bond himself would turn green with envy. Here 10 most famous female spies in history.
"Southern Bellie", aka Isabella Maria Boyd, played a major role in many of the southern victories during the American Civil War. Once in Martinsburg occupied by the northerners, she collected information about the enemy's troops and transmitted information to the leadership of the Confederation. One of these letters ended up in the hands of the northerners. Isabella's handwriting was recognized and intimidated with violence, but the threat was not carried out.
After the war, the ex-spy of the Southerners lived first in Canada, then in England and visited America several times with lectures and stories. Belly Boyd died in her native country, and a museum named after her still operates in Martinsburg.
The innocent secretary of the British Association for Non-Ferrous Metals Research (also known as the "BNF") in the 1930s was in charge of things like arranging meetings and processing documents. Nothing serious. But BNF was actually a cover for the Tube Alloys project - the program nuclear weapons UK.
Although Norwood lived and worked in Britain, she was Russian at heart, identifying with the communist ideologies of the Soviet government. She collaborated with the KGB, working, as they say, for an idea, not for money.
For 40 years, Melita handed over to the USSR documents classified as "secret", including those related to the nuclear program. Much of this information has been used to modernize Russian nuclear technology.
After Norwood's activities became known to the general public (thanks to the betrayal of intelligence officer Vasily Mitrokhin), she was asked to reveal the identities of her Russian accomplices. She refused, stating that she could not remember their names due to memory loss. As Mayakovsky wrote: “Nails would be made of these people. There would be no stronger nails in the world. "
This Polish woman was one of the most beautiful and successful spies in the world. During World War II, she carried out secret Allied missions in Nazi-occupied European countries, in particular, organized the work of couriers in Poland and Hungary.
One story tells of how Skarbek escaped the police by biting her tongue and pretending to die of tuberculosis. She also used her beauty as a bargaining chip, gaining valuable information from Nazi lovers.
Perhaps it was Skarbek's personality that inspired Ian Fleming, describing Vesper Lynd in his book Casino Royale.
Nur Inayat Khan's father came from a princely Indian family, so Nur can be safely called an Indian princess. But instead of a luxurious and carefree life, a bright, glorious, albeit short career of a British intelligence radio operator awaited her.
During World War II, she was part of the Resistance movement in Paris under the codename "Madeleine". While many other members of the Resistance were arrested, Khan escaped arrest time and again, moving frequently and remaining in constant radio communication with London. Unfortunately, a long and successful career The Anglo-Indian scout ended when a local Frenchwoman betrayed her to the Nazis. Khan got into the Gestapo, but even under torture she did not give out encryption codes. She tried to escape several times and was finally sent to the Dachau concentration camp, where she died.
Perhaps the most famous female spy in history, although not the most successful of them all. This famous exotic dancer at the beginning of the 20th century traveled across Europe, telling interesting, but completely untrue stories of her youth. Some she assured that she was a princess, the daughter of King Edward VII and an Indian princess. She told others that Indian priestesses taught her to dance.
Mata Hari's seductive looks and occupation gave her the perfect cover for spying for Germany during World War I. This beauty was famous for the fact that she got high-ranking lovers from different countries, finding out from them the details of the weapons and the number of troops. However, there is speculation that her effectiveness as a spy has been grossly overestimated.
In 1917, Mata Hari was captured by the French and shot for spying for the enemy. Dramatic end to a dramatic career.
This British spy was known to German counterintelligence as "Artemis". During World War II, she worked with the French Resistance, rescued prisoners of war, and recruited hundreds of people to work against the Nazis (who called her "the lame lady" since Hall had a wooden prosthesis instead of one leg).
Using her sharp mind to stay one step ahead of the enemy, Hall conducted successful intelligence activities and, unlike Nur Inayat Khan, managed to escape the torture chambers of the Gestapo. She is the only woman to receive the Distinguished Service Cross, the second most prestigious military honor in the United States.
The “White Mouse,” as Nancy was called during her tenure in the French Resistance, quickly became the heroine of the movement. Her successes included forging a link between the British military and the French Resistance, saving the lives of the Allies by secretly ferrying them across France to Spain, and collecting and storing weapons to advance the Allies.
She was often credited with the liquidation of German spies, and once, according to rumors, Wake killed a German with her bare hands, interrupting his larynx with a special technique. In 1943, the Gestapo awarded 5 million francs for the head of the White Mouse. However, the Nazis did not manage to capture her. Wake died at the venerable age of 98, in 2011.
One of the most famous Russian intelligence officers of the 21st century acted in the United States under the guise of an entrepreneur. She spent years in the United States trying to gather information of any kind that might be useful to the Russian government.
In 2010, Chapman was arrested in New York, admitted that she collaborated with the Russian Federation and, together with other defendants in this case, was exchanged for several Russian citizens who were accused of spying for the United States and England.
She was accused of trying to seduce ex-NSA and CIA officer Edward Snowden in order to keep him in Russia, but the flirtation between the two exposed agents never ended in a strong and happy marriage.
The dark-skinned singer and dancer of American descent quickly became one of the most popular and highest paid female performers in Europe in the 1920s. Dressed only in her famous banana skirt, and bright decorations, she performed on the stage of the famous Parisian cabaret "Folies Bergère". And even got access to the heart of the musical and theatrical world of America - Broadway.
What most people don't know, however, is that Baker was not only a talented singer and dancer, but also a successful spy. She worked for the French Resistance during World War II, transporting secret messages in music books and sometimes even in her underwear. For her work, Baker received military honors from the French government after the end of the war.
The US Department of Defense Intelligence Officer had an ardent sympathy for Liberty Island and openly disagreed with US foreign policy towards Cuba. Therefore, when Cuban officials approached her one day, Ana agreed to carry out secret assignments for them.
Montes not only had access to state secrets (in particular, the invasion of Afghanistan), but also possessed a photographic memory. It made it easier for her to remember necessary documents... When her colleagues became suspicious of Montes, she agreed to take a polygraph test to prove her loyalty to the United States. And successfully passed it.
She secretly worked for the Cuban government for several years, until the FBI got on the trail of Montes. In 2002, Ana pleaded guilty to espionage and received a 25-year prison sentence.
Wherever there is rivalry, double agents emerge, whether in corporations, drug cartels, or countries. Whether they are heroes or traitors, those who write their story decide. However, we tried to approach these unprincipled people impartially.
The profession of a double agent is doubly dangerous and difficult, which means that it is paid quite high. Such vacancies on the Headhunter website do not linger. However, according to independent sources, agents are not always motivated by money (ha, that's what we believed!). These people take risks out of love for their country. Or to someone else's - depending on the situation.
The culture of double agency was born, like tea, chess and Abidas sneakers, in Ancient China, but reached its peak during the Second World War, and then the Cold War. Now double agents are used by the CIA to fight terrorism (by issuing passports to them in the name of Foma Ashf).
1. Dusan Popov
Dusan Popov, nicknamed "Tricycle", is considered the prototype of 007 James Bond. A tall, charismatic and self-confident Yugoslav lawyer, he worked successfully for MI6 during World War II. Dusan spoke German fluently and collaborated with the German intelligence services, while he hated Hitler.
British intelligence did not immediately believe Dushan, and in order to win their favor, he betrayed a double agent - German officer Johann Jebsen. Dusan communicated with MI6 using invisible ink and codings he personally developed.
The confidence of the German side was so high that even when Jebsen's informant was discovered, the Germans did not stop cooperating with Dushan. In 1941, Dusan traveled to the United States on instructions from Germany to obtain information about missile systems. There, he immediately contacted CIA Director Edgar Hoover and became a double agent working for the United States.
Popov's career did not work out, since the Americans did not like the playboy life that he led. Dushan was shown the door, and his information about the impending raid on Pearl Harbor was completely ignored. Popov died in the United States at the age of 69, leaving behind three children and a 30-year-old wife, a beautiful Swedish woman who could star in any James Bond film.
2. Oleg Penkovsky
Oleg Penkovsky, nicknamed "Hero", colonel of the GRU of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR, was one of the most important spies of the West during the Cold War. In fact, he prevented the start of a nuclear war by transferring to MI6 5,500 documents about the USSR's nuclear forces, including in Cuba, and Khrushchev's plans. The United States received full information about what type of missile and how many nuclear warheads the USSR has, which largely influenced the policy of President Kennedy.
Penkovsky came under suspicion in 1961, was arrested in October 1962 and, according to official figures, was shot in 1963. However, according to other sources, he was burned alive in the furnace of the crematorium, and the recording of the execution was shown to the scouts to intimidate (and raise morale).
There is, however, a version that Penkovsky acted in the interests of his homeland, transferring information beneficial to the USSR government. This opinion was held by the scientist Peter Wright, who worked for MI5. In this case, Oleg's story ends with a happy ending: he was not shot or burned, but moved to the West under a false name.
3. Humam Al-Balawi
Humam Al-Balawi fully justified his pseudonym "Zigzag", since he was not even a double, but a triple agent. The CIA reached out to him while he was studying medicine in Istanbul. Khalil made no secret of his adherence to extremist views, which made him an ideal candidate for the role of a double agent.
Al-Balawi was sent to Afghanistan, where he successfully collaborated with Al-Qaeda, transmitting information to the CIA. Fully enlisting the trust of the American side and promising to provide information about the second most important leader of Al-Qaeda, Ayman Zawahiri, Al-Balawi infiltrated Chapman's base, or rather, freely went to the CIA meeting, where he blew himself up, killing seven CIA officers and two military officers.
4. Arthur Owens
First double agent during World War II to change several callsigns. The Germans called him "Johnny" and "Beerman", because in German he could only say "Ein Bier", and the British - "Snow". Arthur, of Welsh descent, was anti-British and collaborated with Germany before the war.
For a reasonable fee, he supplied the Germans with information on British armaments, airfield plans, and the location of military bases and warehouses. By the beginning of the war, he managed to put together a good fortune, taking the amount of transmitted data. Arthur collected information, hiding behind his job as a seller of electrical equipment and freely traveling around the country.
After the outbreak of the war, Arthur contacted MI6 and willingly (for an appropriate reward) made contact. With his help, British intelligence was able to uncover a network of more than 120 German spies and successfully sell false information to Germany for several years. Since Arthur was driven mainly by mercantile considerations, he was very careful. After the end of the war, he peacefully retired with the appropriate reward for non-disclosure of information and lived the rest of his life happily ever after.
5. Aldrich Ames
Aldrich Ames, head of the CIA's counterintelligence unit and head of the Soviet department of the CIA's foreign counterintelligence department, had successfully collaborated with Soviet intelligence for nine years and was one of the most prominent spies. He cost the government of the USSR a pretty penny, his fees were estimated at millions of dollars and were the largest in the history of Soviet intelligence.
To betray the ideals of his homeland, Ames was pushed by banal greed. At the time of the beginning of cooperation with the KGB in 1984, he was divorcing his wife, and he also had huge debts of his mistress. Thanks to the information provided to them, according to various sources, from 12 to 25 agents in the highest echelons of power in the USSR were disclosed.
Among others, Ames even wrote a denunciation against his friend, state security agent Sergei Fedorenko. Ten people were then sentenced to death, and Ames himself became the owner of a fortune of $ 4 million.
However, he did not have time to use his earnings to the full, although he bought a house in the vicinity of Washington for $ 540,000 in cash, bought a farm and two apartments in the name of his wife, got a Jaguar car and luxury goods worth $ 455,000, and also bought stock exchange with a total value of 165,000 dollars. In 1994, Ames was sentenced to life in prison with confiscation of property and is serving time in a Pennsylvania prison. The episode with Ames led to a chill in relations between Russia and the United States, despite the fact that Boris Yeltsin said that he knew nothing about his activities.
Alas, you can't do without espionage: diplomacy is diplomacy, but every government wants to know. They write novels and make films about spies (remember, at least Mr. Bond!), But often the truth about them is more interesting than any fiction.
So, the top 10 most famous spies in history!
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One of the best Soviet spies in Japan, who has earned himself resounding fame in spy circles, a hero of the Soviet Union (posthumously). By the way, Sorge serves as an exception to one important rule, which states that a scout must have an inconspicuous appearance: as a result of wounds received in the First World War (where, by the way, he fought as part of the German troops), he noticeably limped and did not have three fingers ... After being fired from the army, Richard became imbued with the ideas of Marxism, was recruited by the Soviet Union and began traveling around Europe, posing as a journalist. In fact, he was collecting information about possible communist uprisings. He came to Japan in 1933 and collected secret information for the USSR, which then wondered if Japan was preparing an attack. Sorge was arrested in Tokyo, at the house of his beloved woman. Even under torture, he did not confess to espionage, and the USSR did not exchange him for Japanese prisoners, since they denied that Richard Sorge was working for him (the government denied this fact for a long time, until 1964). The Soviet intelligence officer was executed.
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Yes, and he too! In his famous diary, the famous lover confesses to working for the Venetian Inquisition. In 1792 he was expelled from Venice for slandering the urban aristocracy, after which he left for Bohemia and became ... a librarian.
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Why isn't she in first place? Because, in fact, there is no evidence of her achievements in espionage and, quite possibly, the reality was heavily embellished. And yet: Margathera Gertrude Zelge (this is the real name of the spy) began her career with exotic dances (however, the exotic consisted only in the maximum frankness of her stage costumes). Then she was allegedly recruited by German intelligence, and when the French guessed about this, Mata Hari herself came to the French special services and said that she agreed to spy for them (France still denies this). They agreed for the sake of appearance, and then arrested this woman-double agent and sentenced to death. It is interesting that her body was transferred to the anatomical theater, her head was embalmed and preserved in the Paris Museum of Anatomy, and then she disappeared into no one knows where ... What looks strange: a museum exhibit after all.
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We are talking about a group of Soviet spies who spied in Great Britain in the early 50s. Very little is known about them: most likely, their goal was to misinform the Nazis about the plans of the Soviet Union. In fact, it is not even known how many people were actually part of the "Cambridge Five". The most valuable agent of them all was Guy Burgess, the secretary of the British Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs!
Another spy woman! Isabella Maria Boyd during civil war in the United States spied for the Confederation. She was arrested twice, but both times could not prove Belli's guilt. After the war, she traveled all over the states telling stories of espionage. She died of typhus at the age of 56.
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American communists who passed nuclear secrets to the USSR. A married couple with two children, they even spied in a purely family way: Ethel's brother told her about US nuclear developments, and gave her husband a cross-sectional drawing of a nuclear bomb. The Rosenbrgs were electrocuted.
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During the American Revolutionary War, he was a captain of the Continental Army (and before that, a school teacher). He was caught and hanged by the British. The 21-year-old boy said before his execution: "I am sorry that I can only give one life for my Fatherland."
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Another spy from the US Revolutionary War. A young, handsome, brilliant speaker, this officer was well-known best houses New York and Philadelphia, including the house of Benjamin Franklin. He was captured in civilian clothes with a plan of an enemy fortress in a boot and sentenced to execution by hanging.
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Highly interesting person! German theoretical physicist who fled from Germany to England after the establishment of the Nazi regime and worked on the creation of the atomic bomb - first in Great Britain, then in the United States. All this time, Klaus "leaked" information about the development of uranium to the KGB, and for ideological reasons - he believed that the USSR had the right to know about the development of the enemy. After serving 9 years, he left for Germany, where he happily lived to old age.
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Many remember this scandalous story with the espionage of the former CIA counterintelligence chief for the USSR, because the trial of Ames took place relatively recently: in 1994, with the help of the information he passed on, the KGB uncovered about 100 CIA agents (and executed 10 of them). But then the American special services compared 2 facts: the loss of "assets" and the fabulous spending of Ames - cars, jewelry, a house for 500 thousand dollars ... Now he is serving a life sentence in Pennsylvania.
Such are they, spies - heroes for one country, traitors for another ...
Spies ... Such mysterious, brave and desperate personalities that appeared in the history of any country from its very first pages. Heroes for one state and traitors for another. By becoming a spy, a person lost absolutely everything - from a secure roof over his head to his pets. An incredibly dangerous job that required incredible courage and a lot of honed skills. They worked in the name of their Cause, in the name of their Faith, knowing that they could betray themselves at any moment, and realizing that even the smallest mistake can lead them to death. The most interesting personalities in the whole history. We present to you the top 10 most famous spies in the world!
Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs has been a member of the German Communist Party since the early thirties. The theoretical physicist has been working on the atomic bomb for a long time, developing models for the hydrogen bomb. When the Nazis came to power, he fled to England and there began to work for the Soviet Union. Transferred data on the production of uranium in the United States, the creation of a hydrogen bomb. Fuchs' activities in the USSR helped to significantly shorten the period for the creation of the atomic bomb. I would like to note that Klaus Fuchs worked for ideological reasons, and not for remuneration. He was convicted of transferring military secrets for 14 years, of which he served 9, returned to Germany, was awarded the highest award of the GDR - the Order of Karl Marx, and lived there until the end of his days.
Beautiful American Isabella Maria Boyd became a spy during her country's civil war in the 19th century, sided with the Confederacy. The girl's espionage career began quite abruptly and unusually: a group of drunken soldiers of the North rushed to her house, intending to plant the flag of the States on the roof. At the same time, they began to insult Isabella's mother, which the girl did not tolerate, and, grabbing a personal pistol, shot the impudent woman. She had just turned seventeen that year. During the investigation, Belli was acquitted, however, she was placed under surveillance. Isabella was able to learn very important information about the forces of the enemy, charming the military army of the enemy. Many years later, she recalled: "From this young man I received some warm confessions, dried flowers and an incredible amount of vital information." The girl told the secrets she heard to high ranks with the help of her maid, Eliza Hopewell. One evening in 1862, Isabella Boyd overheard a plan to weaken the military influence of the Northern Army in a place called Front Royal. Belli told the Confederate General of the Army that same evening. And on May 23 of the same year, the young spy witnessed the Battle of Front Royal, and was able to personally warn the soldiers of the South about the intentions of the enemies - the destruction of the crossings across the Shenandoah River. However, trying to convey these news in time, the girl came under fire and was awarded the Cross of Honor. Boyd was arrested on July twenty-ninth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two. The reason for the arrest was the betrayal of one of Isabella's lovers. Soon, the girl was released, having spent only a month in prison. A little later, she was arrested again, however, she was released just as quickly. Isabella Boyd died of typhus at the age of fifty-six.
The boy was born into a family of scientists in 1922, after the death of his father he was sent to relatives in the United States. After living abroad for several years, Konon returned to Moscow and graduated here high school... From the first days I participated in the Great Patriotic War, was awarded several medals and orders. After the army, he graduated from the law faculty of the Academy of Foreign Trade, and then remained to teach there. Chinese... He has served in foreign intelligence since the middle of the twentieth century. He worked in Canada (there he received documents with a "new" name), in the USA, Great Britain. Young's task was to collect materials on the development of bacteriological weapons and nuclear reactors. While Konon Trofimovich lived in England, he became a successful businessman, his bank account reached a million, the goods invented at his enterprises receive gold medals at international exhibitions, he travels a lot and makes the necessary acquaintances. Lonsdale (and this is exactly what was now called Molodoy) for many years has been transmitting to the USSR a lot of necessary and important secret information that saves our country billions of dollars. After the failure, the court failed to prove Lonsdale's involvement in Soviet intelligence.
One of the most famous and talented spies. His biography is filled with vivid and dangerous events, because it was thanks to him that the famous James Bond appeared! Many facts of Reilly's biography are known only from his words, however, people of this profession often have this. Rosenblum (his real name) was born in Odessa, in late XIX century left his home and went to America, and then to Europe. There he took a new name and surname and began working for British intelligence. At the turn of the century, he appears in St. Petersburg and is engaged in espionage activities. Here he lives on a "grand scale" - he is engaged in antiques, financial scams, starts dizzying novels, etc. But his main goal is to fight the Bolsheviks. Throughout the country, he is trying to create an espionage network, organizing conspiracies against the Bolsheviks, trying to bribe Lenin's bodyguards with the aim of kidnapping him, seizing the State Bank, the telegraph office and other state institutions. All in all, Reilly's plans were grandiose. It was he who helped A. Kerensky escape from the country. Operation Trust was the last Reilly involved. Reilly was arrested in 1925, and so that no help from England could be announced, his death was announced at the border. Reilly was shot in November of that year.
The Rosenberg couple were American communists. The ideas of communism carried them along in their early youth. Ethel was already considered "politically unreliable", and Julius in 1936 was the leader of the Communist Youth League. In the early forties, Julius began working for Soviet intelligence, then he recruited his wife and her brother David, who worked at the nuclear center. David transmitted information through the Soviet intelligence liaison G. Gold, because he had access to top-secret documents, and specifically, to documents containing information about the atomic bomb. Surprisingly, David managed to hold out in this classified facility for a long time. In 1950, after the failure of the Soviet spy network, many agents were arrested, including David Greenglass, and he had already betrayed his sister and her husband. Unlike all the arrested agents, the Rosenbergs completely refused to admit their guilt. But the Rosenbergs were found guilty and electrocuted. Although experts claim that the documents that Greenglass handed over to the Rosenbergs were not particularly valuable and dangerous, and there are still doubts about the guilt of this married couple.
"Mata Hari" is the pseudonym of Margaret Gertrude Zelle, who was an exotic dancer and courtesan from Holland. Margaret took a pseudonym in 1915, after she divorced her husband and decided to start a career as an exotic dancer. "Mata Hari" meant "sun" or "eye of dawn". Zelle often agreed to pose in very revealing outfits, or even completely naked. And, despite this, the girl positioned herself as the princess of the whole island - Java, which, in principle, due to the obvious lack of telecommunications, was quite feasible and got away with it. Later, joining secular society, she becomes a courtesan altogether. Having had connections with many high-ranking military men, politicians and other influential persons who were representatives of different countries at that time. This situation made Mato Hari just the perfect person to collect classified information. She took advantage of this. During the First World War, the Netherlands, which remained neutral, became for Margaret a convenient "guide" and a place for unhindered crossing the border. When interrogated by the British secret services, Mata Hari admitted her espionage for France, however, and currently France continues to vehemently deny their cooperation. Margaret Zelle was arrested on the thirteenth of February one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, after the French intelligence intercepted the German signal, which contained the coded name of the informer, which was deciphered in favor of Mata Hari. The spy was shot on September 15 of the same year, when she was forty-one.
This man came to intelligence in 1962, but did not achieve success in the first years of service. Over time, Ames was transferred to the department in charge of operations in the USSR. He soon became the head of the Soviet department of the CIA's foreign counterintelligence department. Around the same period, O. Ames began to have problems in his personal life (a difficult divorce process), serious problems with alcohol and mindless huge spending. Accordingly, financial problems soon began. The search for a solution to the problem brought Aldrich to the Soviet embassy in Washington, where he offered his services for a good payment. He had full access to information about agents working on the territory of the Soviet Union in the KGB and the Soviet Army. The information that Ames provided was indeed invaluable, with his help all the CIA officers were identified, and some were even executed. The "work" of this person was highly paid, and this immediately affected his well-being. And when the CIA finally noticed the speed with which they were "losing their people" and began an internal investigation, Aldrich immediately became the main suspect. For the Soviet foreign intelligence, Ames was an invaluable frame, because he almost completely "bled out" the agent network not only in the United States, but also in some European countries. By the way, Ames received a lot of money from the USSR, more than four million dollars. In 1994, Aldrich Ames was sentenced to life imprisonment, which he still serves today.
Harold Adrian Russell Philby was born in India in 1912. He grew up in a wealthy family and continued the old English family. While still very young, he received from his parents the "prophetic" nickname Kim in honor of the boy-spy from the work of R.Kipling. Philby finished school brilliantly, and went to college, where he became interested in Marxism, which was fashionable at that time. In 1934. Philby was invited to work for the intelligence of the country of the Soviets, and the goal of the young man was to get into the British Army Intelligence (SIS). And soon this goal was achieved. Thanks to Kim's service in the SIS of the USSR, he finally became aware of all her operations. The information Philby was gathering was invaluable. Even the CIA officers themselves later admitted that all the efforts of Western intelligence services during Philby's years were useless, it would probably be better if these intelligence services did nothing at all. Kim has built a brilliant career, he even headed the department for the "fight against communism"! When the threat of failure has arisen, he is secretly transported to our country. In the USSR, Kim was awarded several orders, received the rank of general, and sometimes he was brought in to advise the special services. He died in 1988.
This man is one of the best intelligence officers who have worked in Japan. After being seriously wounded while serving on the German-Belgian front, he retired from the army and fled to the USSR. In the Soviet Union, he was recruited as a spy. He "became a journalist" and worked in various European countries... And from 1933 he was sent to Japan to create an agent network. Sorge transmitted important information about the plans of Germany and Japan, whether the USSR is in danger from these countries? During his time in Japan, Sorge learned the language, was well versed in the nuances of politics, economics, and the country's culture. He created a well-conspiratorial organization in Japan (more than thirty people worked under his leadership). Sorge transmitted information about the preparation of fascist aggression, he knew and reported to Moscow about the "Barbarossa Plan" (not yet approved). But this important information was ignored. During the period of work, Sorge has demonstrated his unsurpassed mastery of conspiracy. He worked with his organization for almost eight years, the circumstances of the failure of his group have not yet been clarified. Despite the terrible torture, Richard Sorge did not admit that he was working for the USSR. He was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumously), although for a long time our country denied Sorge's participation in intelligence operations.
His real name is William Genrikhovich Fisher, his parents are Russian revolutionaries, exiled from Russia back in 1901. In 1920, the Fishers returned, but they did not give up their English citizenship. In the army, William became an excellent radio operator, later he gets into intelligence, where his knowledge and skills were appreciated. After 4 years, he and his family went to England on a special business trip, where they set up many secret radio points. He then worked in France and Belgium. During the war years, he trained radio operators for reconnaissance groups and partisan detachments that worked in the territories occupied by Germany. In the same years he met Rudolf Abel, whose data he would use later. After the end of the war, Abel was sent to the United States to obtain information on atomic research. He was arrested on a tip from a radio operator-defector, but William did not agree to cooperate with the American special services and completely denied his connection with Soviet intelligence. He was sentenced to 32 years in prison, but five years later the USSR exchanged him for an American pilot. Returning to the Soviet Union, Fischer resumed his service in intelligence and trained young people. V. Fischer's bright life became the basis for the book "Shield and Sword" and the film "Dead Season".
