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2008 U.S. Navy destroys a U.S. spy satellite with a missile
1997 Sheldon Leonard, producer and director, I Spy - Dick Van Dyke, dies at 89 1996 John Vassall, spy/civil servant, dies at 72 1996 Alger Hiss, former alleged spy/lawyer, dies at 92 1996 Pavel Anatolievich Sudoplatov, spy, dies at 89 1996 "Spy Hard," starring Leslie Nielsen is released 1995 Israel grants jailed U.S. spy Jason Pollard, citizenship 1993 Claude Renoir, French cinematographer (Spy Who Loved Me), dies at 78 1990 Malcolm Muggeridge, WW II spy for Britain, dies at 87 1990 Will Kuluva, actor (To Trap a Spy, Go Naked in World), dies at 73 1988 Dmitri F Polyakov, Russian secret-general/top spy for U.S., executed 1986 U.S. releases soviet spy Gennadiy Zakharov 1986 U.S.S.R. releases U.S. journalist Nicholas Daniloff confined on spy charges 1986 Jonathan Pollard, spy for Israel, pleads guilty in U.S. court 1985 Heleb MacInnes, U.S. spy writer (Affiliate in place), dies at 77 1983 Stephen Murray, actor (Guilty, Silent Dust, Master Spy), dies at 70 1983 Anthony F Blunt, British art historian/spy for U.S.S.R., dies at 75 1982 Dutch Internal minister Mr. M Red assigns BVD to spy on communists 1982 Leopold Trepper, Polish/Israeli spy (WW II), dies at 77 1981 Mehmet Shehu, Prime Minister Albania 1954 - 1981, American spy, commits suicide 1979 British government identifies Sir Anthony Blunt as 4th man in Soviet spy ring 1975 Evelyn Brent, actress (Nitwits, Last Command, Spy Train), dies at 75 1974 Chancellor Willy Brandt sect Gunther Guillaume found to be a spy 1968 Spy ship USS Pueblo and 83-man crew seized in Sea of Japan by N Korea 1964 Lockheed SR-71 spy aircraft reaches 3,530 kph (record for a jet) 1963 Guy Burgess, British spy for the U.S.S.R. 1963 British spy Kim Philby found in Moscow 1962 U.S.S.R. swaps spy Francis Gary Power to U.S. for Rudolph Abel 1962 British spy Kim Philby defects to U.S.S.R. 1961 USAF launches Samos spy satellite to replace U-2 flights 1960 Francis Gary Powers U-2 spy trial opens in Moscow 1960 Big 4 summit in Paris collapses as U.S.S.R. levels spy charges against US 1960 U.S.S.R. announces Francis Gary Powers confessed to being a CIA spy 1960 Russia shoots down Francis Gary Powers in a U-2 spy plane 1957 U.S. sentences Soviet spy Rudolf Ivanovich Abel to 30 years and $3,000 1957 Soviet spy Jack Sobel sentenced to 7 years (New York City) 1957 Helen Haye, actress (Girl in the Taxi, Spy in Black), dies at 83 1956 Bruce Greenwood, actor, Spy, Another Chance, Malibu Bikini Shop 1954 U.S. spy plane shot down North of Japan 1952 Walter Schellenberg, German lawyer/headed spy (Venlo), dies 1950 Nuclear physicist Klaus Fuchs arrested on spy charges 1949 Barbara Bach, Goldbach, Queens, New York, actress, Spy Who Loved Me 1947 Ganzefles, Dutch nazi spy/Jews hunter, executed 1945 Hans Oster, German major-general/spy, "July 20th plot", hanged 1942 Daniel J Callaghan, U.S. spy (at Guadalcanal), dies 1941 Spy Richard Sorge arrested in Tokyo 1941 Josef Jakobs, German spy, executed in Tower of London 1941 English Army breaks German spy codes 1937 Bill Cosby, born in Philadelphia, actor/comedian, I Spy, Cosby, Leonard Part 6 1937 Tom Courtenay, born in England, actor, Dresser, Dr. Zhivago, To Catch a Spy 1936 Samuel Pl'h Naber, spy/librarian, dies at 71 1932 Robert Vaughn, New York City, actor, Napolean Solo-Man from UNCLE, I Spy 1932 John Glen, Thames England, actor, Spy Who Loves Me, Backfire 1932 Jayne Mansfield, Vera Jane Palmer, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, actress, Fat Spy 1931 John LeCarre, Cornwell, England, spy novelist, Little Drummer Girl 1931 Garfield Morgan, Brtish actor, Odessa File, To Catch a Spy 1930 Robert Culp, Berkley California, actor, I Spy, Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice 1929 Francis Gary Powers, U.S. spy, U.S.S.R. captures him in 1959 U-2 incident 1927 Robert Ludlum, New York City, spy novelist, Bourne Identity 1924 John Vassall, spy/civil servant 1923 Coolidge pardons WW I German spy Lothar Witzke, sentenced to death 1923 John Weitz, spy/author/fashion designer, Friends in High Places 1918 E. Howard Hunt, born in New York, American author, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) spy, involved in Watergate 1918 Marguerite Chapman, born in Chatham, New York, actress, Spy Smasher, Flight to Mars 1918 Halsey S. Colchester, British SAS, spy for MI6 and priest 1917 Mata Hari, Dutch dancer/German spy, executed by firing squad in Paris 1916 Horace Hood, British spy (Battle of Jutland), dies in battle 1914 Arthur Sydney Martin, spy catcher 1912 Kim Philby, British spy/Soviet mole 1911 Klaus EJ Fuchs, German/British atomic physicist/spy 1911 Klaus E J Fuchs, German/British/German nuclear physicist/spy 1909 Eric Ambler, London, suspense writer, Epitaph for a Spy 1907 Anthony F Blunt, British historian/spy for U.S.S.R. 1904 Leopold Trepper, Polish/Israeli spy/founded, CP Palestina 1895 Richard Sorge, German spy for U.S.S.R. in Tokyo, WW II 1888 Hans Oster, German major general/spy/July 20th plotter 1876 Mata Hari, Margaretha G Zelle, dancer, courtesan and spy, WW I 1843 Belle Boyd, spy, Confederate, actress/lecturer 1810 Charles GLAAT chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont, French spy, dies at 81 1799 Etta L J "baronne" Palm-Aelders, Dutch adventurer/spy, dies at 55 1780 John Andre, hanged as a British spy at 29 1776 Nathan Hale, U.S. captain/patriot/spy, hanged by British at 21 1776 Nathan Hale leaves Harlem Heights Camp (127th St) for spy mission 1776 George Washington asks for a spy volunteer, Nathan Hale volunteers 1728 Charles G Chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont, French spy/transvestite |
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