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Also Known As John Anthony Walker, Jr.
Born July 28, 1937 • Washington, D.C. • United States
Died August 28, 2014 (aged 77) • North Carolina
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Chelsea Manning
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Whittaker Chambers
Whittaker Chambers
American journalist
Robert Hanssen
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Jonathan Pollard
Jonathan Pollard
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Theodore Hall
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Belle Boyd.
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Elizabeth L. Van Lew
American Civil War agent
E. Howard Hunt
E. Howard Hunt
United States government official
James Wilkinson
United States military officer
Edward Bancroft
British-American spy
Sarah Edmonds
Sarah Edmonds
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Rose O'Neal Greenhow.
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American Confederate spy
Nathan Hale, on a U.S. postage stamp.
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Reinhard Gehlen
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Sir Francis Walsingham, detail of a panel painting attributed to John de Critz the Elder, last quarter of the 16th century; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
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John Cairncross
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Casanova, Giacomo
Giacomo Casanova
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