Flashcards: Soviet spies

Jacques Rossi (October 10, 1909, Wrocław – June 30, 2004, Paris) was a Polish-French writer and polyglot.

Wilhelm "Willi" Münzenberg (14 August 1889, Erfurt, Germany – June 1940, Saint-Marcellin, France) was a communist political activist.

Vladimir Ippolitovich Vetrov (Russian: Владимир Ипполитович Ветров; 10 October 1932 – 23 January 1985) was a high-ranking KGB spy during the Cold War who decided to covertly release valuable information to France and NATO on the Soviet Union's clandestine program aimed at stealing technology from the West.

Lt. Col. Yuri Ivanovich Nosenko (Russian: Юрий Иванович Носенко; October 30, 1927 – August 23, 2008) was a KGB defector and a figure of significant controversy within the U.

Evdokia Alexeyevna Petrova (Russian: Евдоки́я Алексе́евна Петро́ва) (September 15, 1915 - July 19, 2002 (aged 86)) was a Russian spy in Australia in the 1950s.

Vladimir Mikhaylovich Petrov (Russian: Влади́мир Миха́йлович Петро́в; February 15, 1907 – June 14, 1991 (aged 84)) was a member of the Soviet Union's clandestine services who became famous in 1954 for his defection to Australia.

Chen Hansheng (Chinese: 陈翰笙; pinyin: Chén Hànshēng; February 5, 1897 – March 13, 2004), also known as Chen Han-seng and Geoffrey Chen, was a Chinese sociologist and considered a pioneer of modern Chinese social science, and also a member of legendary Soviet master-spy Richard Sorge's Tokyo ring.

Jules Humbert-Droz (1891 – 1971) was a Swiss Communist and a founding member of the Communist Party of Switzerland.

Prince Janusz Franciszek Radziwiłł (1880-1967) was a Polish nobleman and politician.

Victor Ivanovich Cherkashin (Russian: Виктор Иванович Черкашин) (born 22 February 1932) was a counter-intelligence officer of the KGB.

Mustafa Golubić (Serbian Cyrillic: Мустафа Голубић; 24 October 1889–11 June 1941), nicknamed Mujko, was a Bosnian Muslim member of the secret societies Young Bosnia and the Black Hand, as well as a secret agent for the Communist governments of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union.

Theodore Maly (1894 – 20 September 1938) was a former Roman Catholic priest and Soviet intelligence officer during the 1920s and 1930s.

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Mark Zborowski (January 27, 1908 – April 30, 1990) (AKA "Marc" Zborowski) was an anthropologist and an NKVD agent (Venona codenames TULIP and KANT).

Shabtai Kalmanovich (Hebrew: שבתאי קלמנוביץ'‎‎, Lithuanian: Šabtajus Kalmanovičius, Russian: Шабтай Генрихович Калманович; 18 December 1947 – November 2, 2009), alternatively spelled Shabtai Kalmanovic, was a KGB spy, who later became known in Russia as a successful businessman, concert promoter and basketball sponsor.

Viktor Petrov (Ukrainian: Віктор Петров 1894 – 1969) was a prominent Soviet Ukrainian existentialist writer.

Ignace Reiss (1899–1937)–AKA "Ignace Poretsky," "Ignatz Reiss," "Ludwig," "Ludwik", "Hans Eberhardt," "Steff Brandt," Nathan Poreckij, and "Walter Scott (an officer of the U.S. military intelligence)"–was one of the "Great Illegals" or Soviet spies who worked in third party countries where they were not nationals in the late 1920s and 1930s.

This is a list of KGB agents who have defected.

Yuri B. Shvets (born 1952 in Ukraine) was a Major in the KGB USSR during the years 1980-1990.

Michael Matteson was an anti-war activist who resisted conscription into the Australian Army during the Vietnam War, due to his anarchist philosophy and principles.

Edith Tudor Hart (née Edith Suschitzky; 1908–1973) was an Austrian-British photographer, communist-sympathiser and spy for the Soviet Union.

Kerttu Nuorteva (10 November 1912, Astoria, Oregon, United States - 29 August 29 1963, Karaganda, Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union) was a Soviet intelligence agent.

Captain Yevgeny Mikhailovich Ivanov (also known as Eugene Ivanov, Russian: Евгений Михайлович Иванов) (11 January 1926 – 17 January 1994) was a Soviet naval attaché at the Soviet Embassy in London in the early 1960s, and was also engaged in espionage.

Yuri Modin (born November 8, 1922, Suzdal - died 2007, Moscow was the KGB controller for the "Cambridge Five" from 1944 to 1955, during which Donald Duart Maclean was said to have passed atomic secrets to the Soviets. In 1951, Modin arranged the defections of Maclean and Guy Burgess. Modin's predecessors in control of the damaging Cambridge spy ring were executed during Stalin's Great Purge. Modin said of Kim Philby in February 1994:

Otto Katz, also known as André Simone amongst other aliases, was born in Jistebnice south of Prague, Bohemia, on May 27, 1895.

Goronwy Rees (29 November 1909 – 12 December 1979) was a Welsh journalist, academic and writer.

Ruth Leah Greenglass (née Printz; April 30, 1924 – April 7, 2008) was an atomic spy for the Soviet Union along with her husband David Greenglass.