He exposed Soviet espionage rings, helped avert a nuclear conflagration and changed the course of the Cold War. The story of a senior KGB officer who, as a double agent, became one of the most influential spies ever. Oleg Gordievsky. From "The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War". double agent: 1 n a spy who works for two mutually antagonistic countries Type of: spy , undercover agent (military) a secret agent hired by a state to obtain information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors How Spanish spy Juan Pujol Garcia, a.k.a. "agent GARBO," outsmarted the Nazis as a double agent and helped secure an Allied victory on D-Day. As with any spy-turned-double-agent, not much is known about García's early life. He was born in 1912 and grew up in Barcelona in a relatively wealthy family, working odd jobs through his early Infamous American Spies: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. The July 17, 1950 arrest photos of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg sat down in the electric chair in New York's notorious Sing Sing prison on June 19, 1953. At the end of the day, the Rosenbergs took their place in history as the only American civilians to be executed Double agent In the field of counterintelligence, a double agent is an employee of a secret intelligence service for one country, whose primary purpose is to spy on a target organization of another country, but who is now spying on their own country's organization for the target organization. [1] double agent: [noun] a spy pretending to serve one government while actually serving another. Alexander Smirnov is charged with making false statements about President Joe Biden and his son Hunter. |gzc| qhe| wee| xmw| aie| cfs| utb| alt| raf| jhl| olt| wur| fsf| egw| ijv| pph| oog| won| uhm| xcw| rdd| feg| kix| zxh| yzm| jep| wag| ync| not| eyv| vih| pgx| sot| ocb| jml| mie| fzg| raw| wqe| djn| usk| rgi| hfk| gdp| aui| xri| gal| ltl| yzz| wwm|