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Peter Churchill (1909 - 1972)

Peter Morland Churchill DSO Croix de Guerre (1909–1972) was an SOE Officer in France during World War II. He was a brother of Group Captain Walter Churchill DSO DFC and Major Oliver Churchill DSO M...

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Gilbert Giffard, Spy (c.1561 - 1590)

Gifford, Gilbert (c.1561-1590) The authorities considered him "the most notable double, treble villain that ever lived."[13] A friend of John Ballard, Gifford was involved in the Babington Plo...

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Mary Musgrove MP (c.1755 - c.1790)

"Patriot in Petticoats" "This monument, erected in the early 20th century, stands as a reminder of the legendary Mary Musgrove. She is remembered as a character in the 19th-century novel 'Horseshoe R...

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John Nelson MP (1654 - 1734)

from John Nelson (1654–1734) was an English colonial merchant, trader, and statesman, active in New England. Land deals During 1690, John Nelson bought all of the property from the tenants on L...

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Edith Cavell, Spy and Martyr (1865 - 1915)

Edith Louisa Cavell; 4 December 1865 – 12 October 1915) was a British nurse and patriot. She is celebrated for saving the lives of soldiers from all sides without distinction and in helping some 200 Al...

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Gabrielle Petit, Nurse and Spy (1893 - 1916)

Petit was born on 20 February 1893 in Tournai to working class parents. She was raised in a Catholic boarding school in Brugelette following her mother's early death. At the outbreak of the First Wor...

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Kermit Roosevelt, Jr. (1916 - 2000)

Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt, Jr. (February 16, 1916 – June 8, 2000), was a Special Activities Division political action officer who coordinated the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) Operation Ajax, whic...

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Thomas Spencer (c.1749 - 1777)

Born: c.1749 at Onoquaga Died: August 6, 1777 at Oriskany Thomas Spencer was an Oneida, the son of an Oneida woman and the Presbyterian missionary Elihu Spencer, who supported the Patriots agains...

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"Nora Baker" Noor Inayat Khan (1914 - 1944)

Noor Inayat Khan, Hindustani: (Urdu): نور عنایت خان, (Devanagari): नूर इनयात ख़ान GC (2 January 1914 – 13 September 1944) was an Allied SOE agent during the Second World War.. Usually known as Noor...

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Sam Davis ("Boy Hero of the Confederacy") (1842 - 1863)

Sam Davis (1842–1863) is called the Boy Hero of the Confederacy. He was born in Rutherford County, Tennessee. He served in various combat roles in the Confederate army in 1861 through 1863 during the...

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Fannie Battle, Spy & Angel of the Poor (1842 - 1924)

Mary Francis "Fannie" Battle (1842-1924) was a Nashville humanitarian and social worker who was known during her lifetime as "The Angel of the Poor" because of her great humanitarian spirit and compass...

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Aphra Behn MP (1640 - 1689)

Born Aphra Johnson Harbledown, Kent Died 16 April 1689 (aged 48) Nationality English Occupation novelist, dramatist Aphra Behn (baptised 14 December 1640 – 16 April 1689) was a prolific dramatist of ...

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Nathaniel Beverly Tucker, "Confederate Agent" MP (1820 - 1890)

Nathaniel Beverley Tucker (June 8, 1820 - July 4, 1890), Confederate Agent, was born in Winchester, Virginia and died in Richmond, July 4, 1890. Generally known as Beverly Tucker, he was educated at ...

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Vice Admiral William F. Raborn, Jr., Director of Central Intelligence (1905 - 1990)

Vice Admiral William Francis Raborn, Jr., United States Navy (June 8, 1905 - March 6, 1990) was a United States Navy officer, the leader of the project to develop the Polaris missile system, and the ...

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John A. McCone, Director of Central Intelligence (1902 - 1991)

John Alexander McCone (January 4, 1902 - February 14, 1991) was an American businessman and politician who served as Director of Central Intelligence during the height of the Cold War. Background ...

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General Walter Bedell Smith, U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Director of Central Intelligence (1895 - 1961)

Walter Bedell "Beetle" Smith (5 October 1895 – 9 August 1961) was a senior United States Army general who served as General Dwight D. Eisenhower's chief of staff at Allied Forces Headquarters during ...

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László Ede Almásy von Zsadány (1895 - 1951)

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Anthony

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Juliet Stuart Poyntz (1886 - c.1937)

Juliet Stuart Poyntz (1886–1937) was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), and a founding member of the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA). After resigning from ac...

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Desmond Fitzgerald (1910 - 1967)

) Desmond FitzGerald (June 16, 1910 – July 23, 1967) was an American Central Intelligence Agency deputy director, who planned three different assassinations of Cuban leader Fidel Castro. He was e...

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Lincoln Isham (1892 - 1971)

Lincoln “Linc” Isham (June 8, 1892 – September 1, 1971) was a descendant of Abraham Lincoln. He was one of three great-grandchildren of Abraham Lincoln and the only child of Mary "Mamie" Lincoln. ...

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Lt. Colonel A. Peter Dewey (1916 - 1945)

Albert Peter Dewey (October 8, 1916-September 26, 1945), shot by accident by Viet Minh troops on September 26, 1945. Dewey was the first American fatality in French Indochina, killed in the early aft...

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John

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James Jesus Angleton [chief of the CIA's counterintelligence (CI) staff] (1917 - 1987)

James Jesus Angleton (December 9, 1917 – May 12, 1987) was chief of the CIA's counterintelligence (CI) staff from 1954 to 1975. His official position within the organization was "Associate Deputy Dir...

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Captain Lewis Nixon (Easy Company; the "Band of Brothers") (1918 - 1995)

) Lewis Nixon III (September 30, 1918 – January 11, 1995) was a commissioned officer with Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, in the 101st Airborne Division during World W...

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Lieutenant-Commander David Birkin (1914 - 1991)

Father of Andrew and Jane Birkin. Husband of Judy Campbell. He was a Royal Navy lieutenant-commander and World War II espionage operative.

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Deaf Smith (1787 - 1837)

Erastus "Deaf" Smith (April 19, 1787– November 30, 1837) was an American frontiersman noted for his part in the Texas Revolution and the army of the Republic of Texas. He fought at the Grass Fight ...

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General Edward Burleson, Vice President of the Republic of Texas (1798 - 1851)

Edward Burleson (December 15, 1798 – December 26, 1851) was a soldier, general, and statesman in the state of Missouri, the Republic of Texas, and later the U.S. state of Texas. Early life Kn...

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Horace Alsbury (1805 - 1847)

Horace Arlington Alsbury (1805–1847) was one of Stephen F. Austin's Old Three Hundred and was also notable for his participation In the siege of San Antonio de Bexar in November–December 1835 and o...

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Byrd Lockhart (1782 - 1839)

Byrd Lockhart (1782–1839), was a 19th-century Texas surveyor, Alamo defender, courier, and Texian officer during the Texas Revolution. Early life and family Lockhart was born in Virginia in...

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Joseph Marion Nichols (Yankee spy) (1824 - c.1870)

Joseph Marion Nichols, born 15 October 1824, died 1870s, married in Geneva Co., AL, Nicey Cooper, born about 1835, daughter of Stephen Cooper and Psuda Sanders. Joseph Marion Nichols was a spy for th...

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Freddie Woodruff (1947 - 1993)

Freddie Russel Woodruff Specialist 5, United States Army Centeral Intelligence Agency Officer E-mail from a source: April 2005 I happened across your record on Fred Woodruff, the CIA officer w...

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Winston Burdett (1913 - 1993)

Former CBS correspondent, one of "Murrow's Boys" Winston Burdett, by Variety Staff: "Winston Burdett, whose career as a journalist for CBS spanned four decades, has died at his home. He was 79. Bur...

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Maj. General Noah Phelps (1740 - 1805)

Major General Noah Phelps (Simsbury, Connecticut, 22 Jan 1740 - Simsbury, Connecticut, 4 Nov 1809), was the son of Lt. David Phelps and Abigail Pettibone Phelps, and was descended from the English im...

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Israel M. Standefer Sr. MP (1740 - 1822)

From The Virginia Papers of the Draper Collection of Manuscripts; pub. 1815; p. 197, #5ZZ34: May 9, 1777, Israel Standefer. Receipt to Thomas Madison for £12, 10s., his pay as a SPY. (D.S. 1p.) AND May...

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Brevet Maj. General Edward M. McCook (USA), 5th Territorial Governor of Colorado MP (1833 - 1909)

Edward Moody McCook (June 15, 1833 – September 9, 1909) was a lawyer, politician, distinguished Union cavalry general in the American Civil War, American diplomat, and Governor of the Territory of Co...

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Captain Samuel Brady (Continental Army) (1756 - 1795)

Captain Samuel Brady (1756–1795) was a frontier scout and the subject of many legends in the history of western Pennsylvania and northeastern Ohio. He is best known for jumping across a gorge over th...

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Elizabeth Van Lew (Union spy) (1818 - 1900)

Elizabeth Van Lew (October 25, 1818 – September 25, 1900) was a well-born Richmond, Virginia resident who built and operated an extensive spy ring for the United States during the American Civil War....

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Timothy Webster (Union spy) (1822 - 1862)

Timothy Webster (March 12, 1822 – April 29, 1862), Pinkerton agent and Union spy, was the first spy in the American Civil War to be executed. Early life Webster came to America with his paren...

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Brig. General Thomas Jordan (CSA), General-in-Chief of the Cuban Liberation Army (CLA) (1819 - 1895)

) Thomas Jordan (September 30, 1819 – November 27, 1895) was a Confederate general and major operative in the network of Confederate spies during the American Civil War. A career soldier in the armie...

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Thomas Dudley Cabot (1897 - 1975)

Thomas Dudley Cabot (May 1, 1897- June 8, 1995) was an American businessman and philanthropist. He also became U.S. Department of State's Director of Office of International Security Affairs. Ear...

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Arthur Goldberg, U.S. Secretary of Labor and Associate Justice of the U.S Supreme Court (1908 - 1990)

Arthur Joseph Goldberg (August 8, 1908 – January 19, 1990) was an American statesman and jurist who served as the U.S. Secretary of Labor, Supreme Court Justice and Ambassador to the United Nations. ...

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Harriet Tubman MP (c.1822 - 1913)

BIRTH DATE : c.1820. Because she was a slave, and owners did not record their slaves' birthdates, the exact date of Harriet's birth is unknown -- different accounts list 1820 or 1821. BIRTH PLACE : (...

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Robert Komer (1922 - 2000)

Robert William "Blowtorch Bob" Komer (February 23, 1922 - April 9, 2000) was a key figure in the pacification effort to win South Vietnamese "hearts and minds" during the Vietnam War, heading Civil O...

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John Brown (Abolitionist) MP (1800 - 1859)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Brown, c.1856. Born May 9, 1800(1800-05-09) Torrington, Connecticut Died December 2, 1859 (aged 59) John Brown (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) wa...

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Maurice

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Toussaint Dubois (1753 - 1816)

Toussaint Dubois (b. ca. 1764 - d. May 10, 1816) was a Montreal born Frenchman and American soldier who joined with Lafayette to fight for American independence in the American Revolutionary War. ...

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Rear Admiral Richardson Clover (1846 - 1919)

Rear Admiral Richardson Clover (July 11, 1846 – October 14, 1919) was an officer of the United States Navy. An 1867 graduate of the United States Naval Academy, he was a noted hydrographer, served as...

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William Colby, Director of Central Intelligence (1920 - 1996)

William Egan Colby (January 4, 1920 – April 27, 1996) spent a career in intelligence for the United States, culminating in holding the post of Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) from September 19...

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James R. Schlesinger, Director of Central Intelligence, U.S. Secretary of Energy and Defense MP

Dr. James Rodney Schlesinger (born February 15, 1929) is an American politician. He is best known for serving as Secretary of Defense from 1973 to 1975 under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford....

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E. Howard Hunt (1918 - 2007)

Everette Howard Hunt, Jr. (October 9, 1918 – January 23, 2007) was an American intelligence officer and writer. Hunt served for many years as a CIA officer. Hunt, with G. Gordon Liddy and others, was...

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Robert Gates, Director of Central Intelligence, U.S. Secretary of Defense MP

Robert Michael Gates (born September 25, 1943) is the 24th Chancellor of the College of William and Mary and a retired civil servant and university president who served as the 22nd United States Secr...

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Richard Helms, Director of Central Intelligence (1913 - 2002)

Richard McGarrah Helms (March 30, 1913 – October 22, 2002) was the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) from 1966 to 1973. He was the only director to have been convicted of lying to the United Sta...

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Julia Child MP (1912 - 2004)

Julia Child (August 15, 1912 – August 13, 2004) was a famous American cook, author, and television personality who introduced French cuisine and cooking techniques to the American mainstream through he...

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Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (1917 - 2007)

. Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr. (October 15, 1917 - February 28, 2007) was an American historian and social critic whose work explored the American liberalism of political leaders including Franklin ...

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George Plimpton (1927 - 2003)

George Ames Plimpton (18 March 1927 – 25 September 2003) was an American journalist, writer, editor, and actor. He is widely known for his sports writing and for helping to found The Paris Review. ...

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John Howe (1754 - 1835)

) John Howe (October 14, 1754 – December 27, 1835) was a loyalist printer during the American Revolution, a printer and Postmaster in Halifax, the father of the famous Joseph Howe, a spy prior to the...

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Moses Doan (1750 - 1783)

The Doan Outlaws were a notorious gang of brothers from a Quaker family most renowned for being British spies during the American Revolution. The Doans were Loyalists from a Quaker family of good...

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Peter Viertel (1920 - 2007)

Peter Viertel (November 16, 1920 – November 4, 2007)[1] was an author and screenwriter. Contents [show] [edit]Biography He was born to Jewish parents in Dresden, Germany, the writer and actress...

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Samuel

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General Lucian Truscott, Jr. (1895 - 1965)

Lucian King Truscott, Jr. (January 9, 1895 – September 12, 1965) was a U.S. Army General, who successively commanded the 3rd Infantry Division, VI Corps, U.S. Fifteenth Army and U.S. Fifth Army durin...

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Marguerite Browder (deceased)

Marguerite Browder was the sister of Earl Browder, Chairman of the Communist Party USA. She was involved in work for Soviet intelligence. According to a 1938 classified letter from Earl Browder to Geor...

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Iskhak Akhmerova (deceased)

Iskhak Abdulovich Akhmerov (Russian: Исха́к Абду́лович Ахме́ров, Tatar Cyrillic: Исхак Габдулла улы Әхмәров, Latin: İsxaq Ğabdulla ulı Əxmərov; Troitsk, located in modern Chelyabinsk Oblast, 1901–197...

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Elza (Elsa) Akhmerova (deceased)

Elza Akhmerova, also Elsa Akhmerova was an American citizen, born Helen Lowry. She was a niece of Earl Browder, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA). Died of leukemia...

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Earl Browder, Chairman of the Communist Party USA (1891 - 1973)

Earl Russell Browder (May 20, 1891 – June 27, 1973) was an American communist and General Secretary of the Communist Party USA from 1934 to 1945. He was expelled from the party in 1946. Early yea...

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John "Jack" Hadley Nicanor Hemingway (1923 - 2000)

John "Jack" Hadley Nicanor Hemingway (October 10, 1923 – December 1, 2000) was an American writer and conservationist. He was born in Toronto, Canada, the only child of American writer Ernest Hemingw...

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John Ringling North (1903 - 1985)

on the right in profile photo John Ringling North (14 August 1903 - 4 June 1985) was the owner of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus from 1937 to 1943 and from 1947 to 1967. In 1967 he s...

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Gertrude Sanford Legendre (1902 - 2000)

Gertrude Sanford Legendre (1902–2000) was an American socialite who served as a spy during World War II. She was also a noted explorer, big-game hunter, environmentalist, and owner of Medway plantati...

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Henry Sanford, U.S. Ambassador to Belgium (1823 - 1891)

Henry Shelton Sanford (June 15, 1823 – May 21, 1891) was an American diplomat and businessman who founded the city of Sanford, Florida. Early life Sanford was born in Woodbury, Connecticut in...

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Joseph Hatfield, Sr. (c.1737 - 1832)

Joseph Hatfield , Sr. 1, 2, 3 (George Goff Sr. Hatfield , George Abraham "Abe" Hatfield , Abraham Hatfield , Matthias "Matthew" Hatfield , Thomas Hatfield , Johis Hatfield , John Hatfield , John Hatfie...

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George Mathews, Governor MP (1739 - 1812)

George Mathews August 30, 1739-September 30, 1812 Parents: John Mathews and Ann Archer Wives: Mary Flowers b.1739 Anne Paul 1741-1788 Margaret Reed Children with Mary Flowers: Sarah...

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Harold Ware (1889 - 1935)

Harold Maskell "Hal" Ware (August 19, 1889-August 13, 1935) was an American Marxist regarded as one of the Communist Party's top experts on agriculture. Whittaker Chambers alleged that during the...

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William Remington (accused of espionage) (1917 - 1954)

William Walter Remington (October 25, 1917 – November 24, 1954) was an economist employed in various federal government positions until his career was interrupted by accusations of espionage made by ...

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Elizabeth Bentley (Soviet Union spy) (1908 - 1963)

Elizabeth Terrill Bentley (January 1, 1908 – December 3, 1963) was an American spy for the Soviet Union from 1938 until 1945. In 1945 she defected from the Communist Party and Soviet intelligence a...

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Arthur Conolly (aka., "Khan Ali") (1807 - 1842)

Arthur Conolly (1807, London - June 1842, Bokhara) (sometimes misspelled Connolly) was a British intelligence officer, explorer and writer. He was a captain of the 1st Bengal Light Cavalry in the ser...

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General Hoyt Vandenberg, Chief of Staff of the U.S Air Force, Director of Central Intelligence (1899 - 1954)

Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg (January 24, 1899 – April 2, 1954) was a U.S. Air Force general, its second Chief of Staff, and second Director of Central Intelligence. During World War II, Vandenberg wa...

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Ian Fleming MP (1908 - 1964)

Best known for his novels about the British spy James Bond, Ian Fleming was ranked by The Times (of London) fourteenth on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945." Fleming chronicled Bo...

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Jacob Thompson, U.S. Sec'y Interior, Inspector Gen., CSA (1810 - 1885)

Jacob Thompson (May 15, 1810 – March 24, 1885) was a lawyer and politician who served as United States Secretary of the Interior from 1857 to 1861. Biography Born in Leasburg, North Carolina,...

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Clement Claiborne Clay, U.S. and Confederate States Senator (1816 - 1882)

Clement Claiborne Clay (December 13, 1816 – January 3, 1882) was a U.S. senator (Democrat) from the state of Alabama from 1853 to 1861, and a C.S.A. senator from the Alabama from 1861 to 1863. His po...

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Huntington D. Sheldon (CIA official) (1903 - 1987)

Huntington Denton "Ting" Sheldon (February 14, 1903 – May 19, 1987) served as the Director of the Office of Current Intelligence of the US Central Intelligence Agency from 1951 to 1961, serving under...

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William Coffin, Jr. (1924 - 2006)

William Sloane Coffin, Jr. was born June 1, 1924, in New York City. He attended Deerfield Academy and Phillips Academy Andover before beginning his studies at Yale University in 1942. After one year at...

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William P. Bundy (1917 - 2000)

William Putnam "Bill" Bundy (September 24, 1917 – October 6, 2000) was a member of the CIA and foreign affairs advisor to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. He had a key role in planni...

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Sir Compton Mackenzie (1883 - 1972)

Sir (Edward Montague) Compton Mackenzie, OBE (/ˈkʌmptən məˈkɛnzɪ/; 1883–1972) was a writer and a Scottish nationalist. Background Compton Mackenzie was born in West Hartlepool, England, into a thea...

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Josephine Baker MP (1906 - 1975)

Josephine Baker (June 3, 1906 – April 12, 1975) was an American-born dancer, singer, and actress. Nicknamed the "Bronze Venus", the "Black Pearl", and even the "Créole Goddess" in anglophone nations, i...

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Thomas Austin Jones (Confederate Secret Service) (1820 - 1895)

Lincoln Assassination Figure, Chief Agent of the Confederate Secret Service in Maryland. He lived on a high bluff overlooking the Potomac River on Pope's Creek in Charles County with the Virginia sho...

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Lt. Colonel Everton J. Conger (USA) (1834 - 1918)

Everton Judson Conger (April 25, 1834 – July 12, 1918) was an American Civil War officer who was instrumental in the capture of John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, in a Virg...

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Lt. Luther Baker (USA) (1830 - 1896)

Lt. Luther Baker was a member of the Union Army's intelligence service and was present when John Wilkes Booth was found and mortally wounded on April 26, 1865. John Wilkes Booth assassinated Presiden...

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Chevalier Charles-Geneviève d'Éon de Beaumont MP (1728 - 1810)

Charles-Geneviève-Louis-August e-André-Timothée d'Éon de Beaumont (5 October 1728 – 21 May 1810), usually known as the Chevalier d'Éon, was a French diplomat, spy, soldier and Freemason whose first 49...

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Guy Liddell, CB, CBE, MC (1892 - 1958)

Guy Maynard Liddell, CB, CBE, MC (8 November 1892 - 3 December 1958) was a British intelligence officer during World War II. Early life & career Liddell was a distant relation of Alice Pleasance ...

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Roald Dahl MP (1916 - 1990)

Roald Dahl (13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a British novelist, short story writer, fighter ace and screenwriter of Norwegian parentage. Born in Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales, to Norwegian paren...

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Herbert Greene (1898 - d.)

Herbert Greene was the brother of Graham Greene (author), Hugh Greene (Director-General of the BBC) and Raymond Greene (mountaineer). Herbert was a relatively little-known poet recruited in 1933 as a...

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Graham Greene MP (1904 - 1991)

Greene, (Henry) Graham (1904–1991), author, was born on 2 October 1904 at St John's, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, the fourth of six children of Charles Henry Greene (1865–1942), teacher, and his wife ...

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Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen CBE DSO (1878 - 1967)

Colonel Richard Henry Meinertzhagen CBE DSO (3 March 1878 - 17 June 1967) was a British soldier, intelligence officer and ornithologist. Background and youth Meinertzhagen was born into a sociall...

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Sir Basil Home Thomson, KCB (1861 - 1939)

Sir Basil Home Thomson, KCB (21 April 1861 – 26 March 1939) was a British intelligence officer, police officer, prison governor, colonial administrator, and writer. Autobiography: The Scene Changes...

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Ivor Montagu (1904 - 1984)

The Honorable Ivor Goldsmid Samuel Montagu (23 April 1904, London, England – 5 November 1984, London) was a British filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, film critic, writer, table tennis player and app...

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Captain The Hon. Ewen Edward Samuel Montagu, CBE, QC, DL, RNR (1901 - 1985)

Captain The Hon. Ewen Edward Samuel Montagu, CBE, QC, DL, RNR (19 March 1901 – 19 July 1985) was a British judge, writer and Naval intelligence officer. Montagu was born in 1901, the second son of ...

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Benjamin Tallmadge MP (1754 - 1835)

Wikipedia Biographical Summary: "... Benjamin Tallmadge (11 February 1754 – 7 March 1835) was a member of the United States House of Representatives. His birth date is alternately listed as Februar...

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Capt. Abraham Cooper Woodhull, Esq. (1750 - 1826)

DAR Ancestor #: A201482 In the picture: Woodhull exchanging information with Caleb Brewster by a Manhattan harbor. From: Captain Abraham Cooper Woodhull, Esq. (October 7, 1750 – January 23, 1826)...

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Sarah Thompson (Union spy USA) (1838 - 1909)

Sarah Lane was born February 11, 1838 in Greene County, Tennessee. In 1854, Sarah married Sylvanius H.Thompson and they had two children. Sylvanius later became a private in the 1st Tennessee Calvary U...

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Belle Edmondson, Confederate spy (1840 - 1873)

Isabella Buchanan Edmondson was born in 1840 in Pontotoc, Mississippi to Mary Ann and Andrew Jackson Edmondson. As fate would have it, shortly before the Civil War she moved with her family to a farm s...

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