Laura Ratcliffe was a Confederate spy during the American Civil War. Laura’s home in Virginia was sometimes used as a headquarters by the Confederate raider, John Singleton Mosby. Mosby gave Laura th...

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Dennis E. Nolan (April 22, 1872 – February 24, 1956) was a career officer with the United States Army through three wars. He distinguished himself by heading the first modern American military combat...

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Thaddeus Sobieski Coulincourt Lowe (August 20, 1832 - January 16, 1913), also known as Professor T. S. C. Lowe, was an American Civil War aeronaut, scientist and inventor, mostly self-educated in the...

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William Frederick Friedman (September 24, 1891 – November 12, 1969) was a US Army cryptographer who ran the research division of the Army's Signals Intelligence Service (SIS) in the 1930s, and parts ...

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Alva Revista Fitch (September 10, 1907–November 25, 1989) was a lieutenant general in the United States Army and was deputy director of Defense Intelligence Agency from 1946 to 1964. From October 16,...

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. Phillip Buford Davidson, Jr. (November 26, 1915 – February 7, 1996) was an American Lieutenant general, who served in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. Davidson was born on Novem...

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. Miles Axe Copeland, Jr. (July 16, 1916 – January 14, 1991) was an American musician, businessman, and CIA officer who was closely involved in major foreign-policy operations from the 1950s to the 1...

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Nancy Hart Douglas (1846–1913) was a scout, guide, and spy for the Confederacy during the American Civil War. Serving first with the Moccasin Rangers, a prosouthern guerilla group in present-day West...

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. Richard Mervin Bissell, Jr. (September 18, 1910 – February 7, 1994) was an American Central Intelligence Agency officer responsible for major projects such as the U-2 spy plane and the Bay of Pigs ...

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Charles Tracy Barnes (August 2, 1911 – February 18, 1972) was a senior staff member at the United States' Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), serving as principal manager of CIA operations in the 1954...

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) John Morrison Birch (May 8, 1918 – August 25, 1945) was an American military intelligence officer and a Baptist missionary in World War II who was shot by armed supporters of the Communist Party of...

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Lieutenant Sidney George Reilly, MC (c. March 24, 1873/1874 – November 5, 1925), famously known as the Ace of Spies , was a Jewish Russian-born adventurer and secret agent employed by Scotland Yard, th...

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Mary Edwards Walker (November 26, 1832 – February 21, 1919) was an American feminist, abolitionist, prohibitionist, alleged spy, prisoner of war and surgeon. She is also the only woman ever to receiv...

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Frederick “Fritz” Joubert Duquesne (sometimes spelled Du Quesne; English pronunciation: /duːˈkeɪn/) (21 September 1877 – 24 May 1956) was a South African Boer soldier, prisoner of war, big game hunte...

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Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence, CB, DSO (16 August 1888[5] – 19 May 1935), known professionally as T. E. Lawrence, was a British Army officer renowned especially for his liaison role during ...

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Frederick Russell Burnham, DSO (May 11, 1861 – September 1, 1947) was an American scout and world traveling adventurer known for his service to the British Army in colonial Africa and for teaching wo...

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Mather Howard Burnham (May 27, 1870 – May 14, 1917), went by the name of Howard and his brother was the celebrated scout Frederick Russell Burnham. He traveled the world, frequently worked as a minin...

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) William Wickham PC, PC (Ire) (11 November 1761-22 October 1840) was a British politician who acted as a spymaster during the French Revolution, and was later a Privy Counsellor and Chief Secretary ...

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DAR Ancestor #: A066850 Thomas Knowlton (22 November 1740 – 16 September 1776) was an American patriot who served in the French and Indian War and acted as a Colonel during the American Revolution....

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Sir Francis Walsingham (c. 1532[1] – 6 April 1590) was Principal Secretary to Elizabeth I of England from 1573 until 1590, and is popularly remembered as her "spymaster". Walsingham is frequently cit...

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Her career during the Civil War was quite notorious, the incidents of her arrests and imprisonment being given wide international publicity. "She was pretty and vivacious and always dressed in the la...

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Patience Lovell Wright (1725 – March 23, 1786) was the first recognized American-born sculptor. She chiefly created wax figures of people. She loved to write poetry and was also a painter. Never forg...

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Alger Hiss (November 11, 1904 – November 15, 1996) was a U.S. State Department official involved in the establishment of the United Nations. He was accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948 and convicted...

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Patriot of the Revolutionary War, Nathan was hung as a spy. Remembered for his oft quoted words, "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." In 1985 Captain Nathan Hale was desig...

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) William Norris of Maryland was the Chief Signal Officer of the Confederate States Army and Chief of the Signal Bureau in Richmond. Norris also commanded the Secret Service Bureau, a unit within the...

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David McConaughy (July 23, 1823 – 1902) was a noted attorney, cemetery president, and civic leader in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, as well as a part-time intelligence officer for the Union Army during t...

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Virginia "Ginnie" Bethel Moon (1844–1925) was born in Ohio in 1844. She moved to Memphis, Tennessee with her mother in 1862 where she began a short but notable career as an espionage agent working wi...

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Lottie was a lecturer and under the nom-de-plume "Charles M. Clay," wrote several books. During the Civil War she gave "splendid service" as a Southern spy, and with her sister, Virginia, disguised her...

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Spencer Kellogg Brown was born August 17, 1842 in Kansas. His family moved to Missouri. On September 25, 1863, he was executed by the Confederates as a Union spy. In retaliation for what was known ...

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) John Burke (1830 – January 18, 1871) was a Confederate adjutant general of Texas and spy. He was born in Pennsylvania. He was left an orphan by age 11. He spent many of his young days in New York...

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Aaron Van Camp (June 23, 1816 – September 15, 1892) was an espionage agent for the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. He was a member of the Rose O'Neal Greenhow Confederate...

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Eugene B. Van Camp, was born in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1838 and later assisted his father, Aaron Van Camp, in his espionage activities for the Confederate States of America. In April 1861, shortly ...

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William Hunter Campbell (September 9, 1839–June 18, 1862) was an Ohio civilian who worked for the Union Army during the early years of the American Civil War. He participated in a daring raid behind ...

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Thomas Edgeworth Courtenay (April 19, 1822 – September 3, 1875) was a member of the Confederate Secret Service and the inventor of the coal torpedo, a bomb disguised as a lump of coal that was used t...

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Thomas Henry Hines (October 8, 1838 – January 23, 1898) was a Confederate spy during the American Civil War. A native of Butler County, Kentucky, he initially worked as a grammar instructor, mainly a...

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Lafayette Curry Baker (October 13, 1826 – July 3, 1868) was a United States investigator and spy, serving for the Union Army, during the American Civil War and under presidents Abraham Lincoln and An...

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. John Surratt (April 13, 1844 – April 21, 1916) was accused of plotting with John Wilkes Booth to kidnap U.S. president Abraham Lincoln and suspected of involvement in the Abraham Lincoln assassinat...

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Betty Duvall (1845–1891) was a Confederate spy during the US Civil War. She is descended from the Emigrant, Mareen Duvall. Washington D.C.-based spy Rose O'Neal Greenhow gave Betty a note about a U...

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George Mayfield (1779 – 1848) was an interpreter and spy for General Andrew Jackson during the Creek War of 1813 – 1814. He was most notable for his adventurous life and dual existence between the wh...

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John André (May 2, 1750 – October 2, 1780) was a British army officer hanged as a spy during the American Revolutionary War. This was due to an incident in which he assisted Benedict Arnold's attempted...

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Charles Pearre Cabell (October 11, 1903 in Dallas, Texas – May 25, 1971 in Arlington, Virginia) was an United States Air Force General and deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Early ...

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William Joseph Donovan (January 1, 1883 – February 8, 1959) was a United States soldier, lawyer and intelligence officer, best remembered as the wartime head of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS)...

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Allen Welsh Dulles (April 7, 1893 – January 29, 1969) was the first civilian and the longest serving (1953–61) Director of Central Intelligence (de facto head of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)...

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Michael Whitney Straight, (September 1, 1916 – January 4, 2004) was an American magazine publisher, novelist, patron of the arts, a member of the prominent Whitney family, and a confessed spy for the...

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Morris "Moe" Berg (March 2, 1902 – May 29, 1972) was an American catcher and coach in Major League Baseball who later served as a spy for the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. Althoug...

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Isabella Marie Boyd (May 9, 1844 – June 11, 1900, best known as Belle Boyd or Cleopatra of the Secession, was a Confederate spy in the American Civil War. She operated from her father's hotel in Fron...

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Rose O'Neal Greenhow (1817–October 1, 1864) was a renowned Confederate spy. As a leader in Washington, D.C. society during the period prior to the American Civil War, she traveled in important poli...

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Virginia Hall, MBE, DSC (April 6, 1906 —July 14, 1982) was an American spy during World War II. She was also known by many aliases: "Marie Monin", "Germaine", "Diane", "Marie of Lyon" and "Camille". ...

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Claire Phillips (December 2, 1908 – May 22, 1960), also known as Clara Fuentes or High Pockets, was an American spy who worked in the Japanese controlled Philippines during World War II. In 1951, upo...

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Pauline Cushman (Born Harriet Wood) (June 10, 1833 – December 2, 1893), was an American actress and a spy for the Union Army during the American Civil War. Early life Harriet was born in New Orle...

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Sarah Emma Edmonds (December 1841 – September 5, 1898), was a Canadian-born woman who is known for serving with the Union Army during the American Civil War. Biography Sarah Emma Edmonds was born...

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Confederate spy who fell in love with and married her Union soldier captor. Antonia Ford (July 23, 1838 – February 14, 1871) was a volunteer civilian spy for the Confederate States Army during the ...

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Alice Marble (b. September 28, 1913, Beckwourth, California – d. December 13, 1990, Palm Springs, California) was a World No. 1 American tennis player who won 18 Grand Slam championships (1936–40): 5...

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) Robert Townsend (November 25, 1753 - March 7, 1838) was a member of the Culper Ring during the Revolutionary War. With the aliases “Samuel Culper, Jr.” and “723,” Townsend operated in New York City...

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Edward Bancroft (9 January 1744 – 8 September 1821) was an American physician and double-agent spy during the American Revolution. He worked as a spy for Benjamin Franklin in Britain before the Rev...

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) Daniel Bissell (December 30, 1754 – August 21, 1824) was a soldier and spy for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He was born to Daniel and Elizabeth Bissell in East Windso...

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) Sergeant Major John Champe (1752–1798) was a Revolutionary War senior enlisted soldier in the Continental Army who became a double agent in an attempt to capture the American traitor General Benedi...

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Dr. Benjamin was noted as a Traitor to the Revolutionary cause. Dr. Benjamin Church (August 24, 1734–1778) was effectively the first Surgeon General of the U.S. Army, serving as the "Chief Physicia...

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Enoch Crosby (1750–1835) was an American soldier and spy during the Revolutionary War. His life may have been the basis for the character Harvey Birch in James Fenimore Cooper's novel The Spy. Earl...

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Captain Pierre Douville (1745–1794) was born in Prince Edward Island and survived the 1755 Acadian deportation to France. He joined the French Navy and lived in Rhode Island during the American Revol...

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Margaret Kemble Gage (1734-1824) was the wife of General Thomas Gage, who led the British Army during the American Revolutionary War, and is said to have spied against him out of sympathy for the Rev...

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Daughters of American Revolution Ancestor #: A046437 Service: CONTINENTAL LINE Rank(s): PATRIOTIC SERVICE, MAJOR Birth: 6-12-1747 STE FAMILLE CANADA Death: 3-9-1816 BEEKMANTOWN CLINTON CO NEW YOR...

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Colonel David Henley (February 5/12, 1748/9 - January 1, 1823) was a Continental Army officer during the American Revolutionary War, who served as George Washington's intelligence officer and Prisone...

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John Honeyman was a spy for George Washington during the Revolutionary War. He reportedly gave information to Washington that prompted the crossing of the Delaware at Trenton, New Jersey, 1776, and res...

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John the Painter (1752–1777), also known as James Aitken or John Aitkin, was a Scot who committed acts of terror in British naval dockyards in 1776–77. Early life Aitken was born in Edinburgh in ...

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Colonel John Brown (October 19, 1744 – October 19, 1780), often known as John Brown of Pittsfield because of his common name, was a Patriot, spy, soldier, and military leader, in the American Revolut...

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Sylvanus Griswold Morley (June 7, 1883 – September 2, 1948) was an American archaeologist, epigrapher, and Mayanist scholar who made significant contributions toward the study of the pre-Columbian Ma...

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Francis Gary Powers (August 17, 1929 – August 1, 1977) was an American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union airs...

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) Donald Duart Maclean (pronounced /məˈkleɪn/; 25 May 1913 Marylebone, London – 6 March 1983 Moscow) was a British diplomat and member of the Cambridge Five who were members of MI5, MI6 or the diplom...

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Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby (1 January 1912 – 11 May 1988) was a high-ranking member of British intelligence who worked as a spy for and later defected to the Soviet Union. A communist, he ser...

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Anthony Frederick Blunt (26 September 1907 – 26 March 1983), was a British art historian exposed as a Soviet spy. Blunt was Professor of the History of Art at the University of London, director of ...

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Adler Berriman Seal (July 16, 1939 – February 19, 1986), better known as Barry Seal, was a United States drug smuggler and aircraft pilot who flew covert flights for the Central Intelligence Agency a...

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Cord Meyer, Jr. (November 10, 1920 – March 13, 2001) was an American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) official. Early life Meyer's father, Cord Meyer Sr., was a diplomat and former real estate...

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