People of the Cold War

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.

Alexander Dmitrievich Ogorodnik (Russian: Александр Дмитриевич Огородник, 1939 – June 22, 1977) was a Soviet diplomat who, while stationed in Bogotá, was contacted by the Colombian intelligence agency and the CIA to spy on the Soviet Union, operating under the code name Trigon.

Stefan Olszowski (born 28 August 1931) is a Polish politician, who was a member of the Polish United Workers' Party.

Jeane Duane Kirkpatrick (née Jordan; November 19, 1926 – December 7, 2006) was an American diplomat and political scientist.

Stefan Thomas Possony (March 15, 1913 in Vienna – April 26, 1995) was an Austrian-born U.

Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (/ˈædleɪ/; February 5, 1900 – July 14, 1965) was an American politician and diplomat, noted for his intellectual demeanor, eloquent public speaking, and promotion of progressive causes in the Democratic Party.

Nadia Elena Comăneci (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈnadi.a koməˈnet͡ʃʲ] ; born November 12, 1961) is a Romanian gymnast who, at the age of 14, became the first gymnast in Olympic history to be awarded the perfect score of 10.

Cresson Henry Kearny (/ˈkɑːrni/; January 7, 1914 — December 18, 2003) wrote several survival-related books based primarily on research performed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

The Forest Brothers (also Brothers of the Forest; Forest Brethren; Forest Brotherhood; Estonian: metsavennad, Latvian: meža brāļi, Lithuanian: miško broliai) were Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian partisans who waged a guerrilla war against Soviet rule during the Soviet invasion and occupation of the three Baltic states during, and after, World War II.

Colonel Gail Seymour "Hal" Halvorsen (born October 10, 1920) is a retired officer and command pilot in the United States Air Force.

Arthur D. Nicholson (7 June 1947 – 24 March 1985) was a United States Army military intelligence officer shot by a Soviet sentry while engaged in intelligence-gathering activities as part of an authorized Military Liaison Mission which operated under reciprocal U.

Richard Mingus worked as a security guard at the Nevada Test Site from 1957-1993.

James Edward Service (born January 20, 1931) is a retired vice admiral of the United States Navy active during much of the Cold War.

Markus Hess, a German citizen, is best known for his endeavours as a hacker in the late 1980s.

Richard L. Bliss is an American engineer and former employee of Qualcomm who was arrested in November 1997 while working within Russia on charges of espionage.

Mahmoud Kamal Muftić (born ca. 1925/1926 in Sarajevo, died September 1971 in London; also spelled Mahmud Kemal or Mahmut Kemal, sometimes known as Mahmoud K.S. Muftić) was a Bosniak medical doctor, scientist, Muslim religious scholar and Muslim Brotherhood activist.

John Ashby Baldwin, Jr.

Joseph Charles Strasser (born 3 September 1940) is a retired rear admiral of the United States Navy.

Kamal Adham (1929 – 29 October 1999) was a businessman and former director general of Saudi Arabia's Al Mukhabarat Al A'amah or the general intelligence directorate.

Beatrice "Trixie" Helen Worsley (18 October 1921 – 8 May 1972) was the first female computer scientist in Canada.

Milán Václavík (28 March 1928 – 2007) was a Slovak-origin Czechoslovak military officer with the rank of colonel general.

Peter Colotka (born 10 January 1925) is a Slovak academic, lawyer and politician.

Victor Grossman(March 11, 1928– ) is an American publicist and author who defected to the Soviet Union in 1952, and is now living in Germany.

Ronald James Kurth (born July 1, 1931) is a retired rear admiral of the United States Navy.

Donald Jerome Mitchell (May 8, 1923 – September 27, 2003) represented New York in the United States House of Representatives from 1973 to 1983.

Edward F. Welch, Jr.

Jacob Lawrence Shuford (b. circa 1952) was a rear admiral of the United States Navy.

James R. Stark (b. ca. 1943) is a retired rear admiral of the United States Navy who served during the Cold War and in the Vietnam War and oversaw operations related to the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s.