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Also Known As Robert Philip Hanssen
Born April 18, 1944 • Chicago • Illinois
Died June 5, 2023 (aged 79) • Colorado
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Edward Snowden
Edward Snowden
American intelligence contractor
Chelsea Manning
Chelsea Manning
United States Army intelligence analyst
Whittaker Chambers
Whittaker Chambers
American journalist
Jonathan Pollard
Jonathan Pollard
American civilian defense analyst and spy
Theodore Hall
American-born physicist and spy
Belle Boyd.
Belle Boyd
Confederate spy
John Walker
American spy
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
American Civil War soldier
Rose O'Neal Greenhow.
Rose O’Neal Greenhow
American Confederate spy
Nathan Hale, on a U.S. postage stamp.
Nathan Hale
American Revolutionary War officer
Reinhard Gehlen
German general
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.
Sir Francis Walsingham
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John Cairncross
British civil servant and spy
Casanova, Giacomo
Giacomo Casanova
Italian adventurer