Joan pujol garcia
Pujol as a conscript, 1931
Pujol's case officer at MI5, Tomás Harris
An inflatable M4 Sherman tank of the First US Army Group
Pujol's passport in Venezuela
Juan Pujol García
Juan Pujol García, codenamed Garbo, was a Spanish spy who posed as a double agent loyal to the United Kingdom against Nazi Germany during World War II.
Killing Off Phantom Operatives for Widow Pensions
Pujol insulated his fictitious operations by creating imaginary sub-agents across the United Kingdom who could shoulder blame for missed intelligence. When fleet movements from Liverpool went unreported, Pujol fabricated an illness and subsequent death for his local asset. He reinforced the deception by placing an obituary in the local newspaper, which convinced German handlers to pay a regular pension to the deceased agent's fictional widow.
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Klaus Fuchs - police photograph
The Poynting Physics building at the University of Birmingham
Fuchs's Los Alamos ID badge
The grave of Klaus Fuchs and his wife Margarete in Berlin
Klaus Fuchs
Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs was a German theoretical physicist and communist spy who passed Manhattan Project research to the Soviet Union during and after World War II.
Underground Resistance and Family Tragedy in Berlin
Before fleeing Germany, Fuchs belonged to a family deeply entangled in anti-Nazi resistance. His siblings Gerhard and Elisabeth established a car rental agency in Berlin specifically to smuggle Jews and political opponents out of the country. Following repeated arrests and the suppression of their network, Elisabeth died by suicide in August 1939 by leaping before an oncoming train.
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Oleg Penkovsky CIA
Penkovsky at the trial in 1963
Oleg Penkovsky
Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky was a Soviet military intelligence colonel who provided vital Soviet military secrets to the United States and the United Kingdom.
Bridge Encounter and Western Reluctance
Penkovsky initiated contact in July 1960 by handing a package offering to spy for the United States to American students on the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge in Moscow. Fearing an international incident, the US Embassy refused to cooperate, which prompted the CIA to recruit British intelligence for assistance. MI6 subsequently enlisted Greville Wynne, an industrial equipment salesman, to serve as an intermediary courier.
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Black-and-white head shot of Cohen facing right
Cohen (center) at the Golan Heights
Cohen at his Damascus home in 1963
Syrian officers during Cohen's military tribunal, 1965
Cohen's public execution in the Marjeh Square, Damascus, 18 May 1965
Memorial stone reading Eliahu (Eli) Cohen, in the "Garden of the Missing Soldiers" on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.
Eli Cohen
Eliyahu Ben-Shaul Cohen was an Egyptian-born Israeli spy best known for his espionage work in Syria between 1961 and 1965.
Rescued from the Rejection Pile
Eli Cohen's career in espionage began not with immediate acclaim, but with an outright rejection by Mossad that left him working as an insurance filing clerk in Tel Aviv. His path changed when Mossad Director-General Meir Amit combed through archived files of discarded applicants to find an operative capable of infiltrating Syria. Selected from the reject pile, Cohen passed a rigorous six-month training course that qualified him as a field agent.
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Aldrich Ames mugshot
Ames's portrait in the 1958 McLean High School yearbook
Replacement of the mailbox used by Ames; a horizontal chalk mark above the USPS logo at 37th and R Streets, Washington, D.C., was a signal that a meeting with the Soviets was needed.[23] The original mailbox is now housed in the International Spy Museum.
FBI photo of the mailbox featuring the horizontal chalk mark placed by Ames on October 13, 1993, to arrange a meeting with his Russian intelligence handlers.
The CIA mole hunt team, c. 1990. Left to right: Sandy Grimes, Paul Redmond, Jeanne Vertefeuille, Diana Worthen, and Dan Payne.
Aldrich Ames
Aldrich Hazen Ames was an American CIA counterintelligence officer who was convicted of espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union and Russia in 1994.
Counterfeiting for Trainees and Youthful Larceny
Ames entered intelligence work through a program for children of CIA employees, where his initial tasks included making fake money for trainees at the Farm. When taking his first agency polygraph examination, he confessed to an alcohol-fueled incident where he and a friend stole a delivery boy's bicycle for joyriding. Because officials did not consider the offense grave enough to deny a security clearance, he was cleared to begin his career.
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Robert Hanssen
"Ellis" dead drop site in Foxstone Park used by Hanssen, including on the day of his arrest
Hanssen's mug shot, taken on the day of his arrest
United States Penitentiary, Florence ADX, where he was incarcerated
In his cell at ADX Florence
Robert Hanssen
Robert Philip Hanssen (1944–2023) was an American FBI agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services against the United States from 1979 to 2001.
Tasked with Hunting Himself
In 1987, Hanssen was recalled to D.C. and tasked with studying penetrations of the FBI to locate the mole who betrayed Martynov and Motorin. In effect, bureau leadership charged the spy with searching for himself. This assignment allowed him to evade detection and continue operating undetected from within the heart of American counterintelligence.
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George Blake spy
Blake with his mother upon his return to the UK in 1953
Blake after returning from Korea in 1953
HM Prison Wormwood Scrubs in west London, from which Blake escaped in 1966
George Blake
George Blake was a British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) spy who served as a double agent for the Soviet Union.
Voluntary Defection Under Fire
During his three-year detention in the Korean War, George Blake experienced a profound ideological shift rather than coercion. Witnessing the bombing of North Korea while reading the works of Karl Marx convinced him to embrace communism. He subsequently arranged a secret meeting with his guards and voluntarily offered his services to the MGB.
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg NYWTS
The corner of Orchard and Rivington streets, Lower East Side, 2005
Mugshot of Julius Rosenberg
Mugshot of Ethel Rosenberg, arrested during grand jury proceedings
Mugshot of David Greenglass, brother of Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg and key prosecution witness
Morton Sobell (left), Marshall Perlin, Robert Meeropol, Franz Loeser, April 19, 1976
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were an American married couple convicted of spying for the Soviet Union and executed in 1953.
Jet Fighter Blueprints and Conventional Military Espionage
The Rosenberg spy network extended well beyond atomic materials into top-secret aviation technology. Under direction from Julius, operative William Perl provided Soviet handler Aleksandr Feklisov with thousands of classified aeronautical records. Among these stolen materials was a complete set of design and production drawings for Lockheed's P-80 Shooting Star, America's first operational jet fighter.
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