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Larry Wu-ta Chin, a retired CIA analyst, is arrested of spying for China. |
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed for espionage and delivering U.S. Atomic Bomb technology to the Soviets. |
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Julius and Ethel Rosenburg are executed in Ossining, New York. They had been found guilty of providing U.S. Atomic Weapons technology to the Soviets. |
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Robert Hanssen, a US FBI agent, is arrested on charges that he spied for the Soviet Union |
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The British submarine HMS Seraph surfaces in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Spain and releases a dead man dressed as British military intelligence officer Major William Martin with false plans for an invasion of Sardinia. |
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U.S. troops and Iraqi police raid the home and party offices of Ahmed Chalabi, the man once considered to be the Pentagon's top ally in Iraq. |
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CBS News announces that Senior U.S. officials claim they have evidence that Ahmed Chalabi has been passing highly-classified U.S. intelligence to Iran. |
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Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi speaks on the U.S. charges the Amed Chalabi passed secret information to Iran, declaring that "..spying charges are unfounded and baseless. It's not true at all.'' |
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CBS News reports that Ahmed Chalabi informed Iranian intelligence that the U.S. had cracked its codes allowing agents to read Iran's secret communications. Chalabi reportedly claimed he had gotten the information from an American who had been drunk. |
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Former U.S. ally turned espionage suspect Ahmed Chalabi denies "all the charges which have been anonymously leaked to the press in relation to this matter." He also stated that he was "willing and ready to come to Washington, D.C. to be interviewed fully by law enforcement agents on this subject fu ... |
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Former U.S. Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to charges of espionage and selling United States military intelligence to Israel. The top-secret information included satellite photos and data on Soviet weapons, enough to fill a medium-sized room. |
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Former CIA covert operations officer Philip Agee and the author of the books Inside the Company and Dirty Work holds a press conference in Havana Cuba to announce the internet based travel agency www.cubalinda.com |
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Roscoe Hillenkoetter, who formerly commanded the USS Dixie and the USS Missouri, is promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral. |
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Following North Korea's surprise invasion, CIA Director Roscoe Hillenkoetter is removed from office and returns to the Navy to command the Pacific Fleet's Cruiser Division One. |
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Edward Howard Lee slips past an inexperienced FBI agent and becomes the first CIA officer to successfully escape the west to the Soviet Union. |
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Senior KGB official Vitaly Sergeyevich Yurchenko defects to the West and divulges that Edward Howard and Ronald Pelton were two former CIA employees who sold Western secrets. |
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Richard M. Nixon fires CIA Director Richard Helms, over the Watergate scandal. |
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CIA Director Allen Dulles commences the MKULTRA program at the prodding of Richard Helms. |
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Philip Agee's book, Inside the Company: CIA Diary, is published and documents recruitment, training and CIA life including specific designations, cover and agent names |
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Philip Agee publishes his book, Dirty Work: The CIA in Western Europe. |
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Former CIA agent Philp Agee's book, On The Run, is published. |
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CIA Director George Tenet presents the Worldwide Attack Matrix, a "top-secret" document detailing CIA anti-terror operations in 80 countries in Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. Washington Post authors Bob Woodward and document the day in their article Management |
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Washington Post Staff Writers Bob Woodward and Dan Balz document George Tenet's Worldwide Attack Matrix in their article At Camp David, Advise and Dissent. |
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Kim Philby dies and is provided a hero's funeral by the Soviet government. |
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The British Government reveals that former diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a Soviet agent. |
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Kim Philby disapears in Beirut. |
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Mrs. Kim Philby (Eleanor Brewer) receives a telegram from her husband postmarked from Cairo, Egypt. |
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Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean escape from Britian via the Baltic to the Soviet Union, with the help of Kim Philby. |
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George Trofimoff, a retired Army officer, is convicted in Tampa, FL of selling Cold War secrets for over two decades. |
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Former NSA staffer Ronald W. Pelton is found gulity of conspiracy and espionage. In 1981 he revealed to the Soviets the joint NSA US Navy "Ivy Bells" operation which intercepted USSR dispatches from a communications cable on the bottom of the Sea Okhotsk. |
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