Notable individuals and events Sexpionage

1 notable individuals , events

1.1 kursk nightingale
1.2 cynthia
1.3 commander courtney affair
1.4 ambassador dejean affair
1.5 sir geoffrey , galya
1.6 kgb break-in @ swedish embassy in moscow
1.7 donald maclean
1.8 william vassall
1.9 anthony blunt

notable individuals , events
kursk nightingale

nadezhda plevitskaya, former opera singer known kursk nightingale before russian civil war, found herself living without former luxuries following bolshevik revolution. cheka recruited vassilievna through lust money. traveling throughout white-held areas, entertained troops @ free concerts, @ same time ingratiating herself anti-bolshevik leaders had long admired kursk nightingale. in process, began collect interesting intelligence tidbits of more indiscreet whites (including slept pry more information). however, vassilievna captured whites after intercepting of messages cheka , ordered executed firing squad. nikolai skoblin, young white cavalry officer , megalomaniac obsessed idea of recreating holy russia, mythical land existed before time of tsars, saw vassilievna refuse blindfold before execution. motivated beauty , courage, skoblin rode up, ordered firing squad not fire, , released in custody. cheka used vassilievna recruit skoblin, , both got married (with vassileivna s then-husband understandingly serving best man in wedding) , moved paris, working cheka among russian exile movement.

cynthia

amy thorpe pack american married senior british diplomat , began extramarital affairs upon finding marriage passionless. volunteered services mi6 while living husband in warsaw in 1937. in warsaw, seduced polish foreign ministry official eliciting him poland s plans regarding how deal hitler , stalin. following this, learned polish official polish mathematicians had started cracking german enigma ciphers. later, in czechoslovakia, discovered german plans invade czechoslovakia. after colorless stint of boredom @ posting in santiago, chile, pack separated husband , went new york city in 1941, when william stephenson, mi6 chief of station, contacted , asked infiltrate embassies in washington, d.c. realizing motivation lust danger , excitement, stephenson gave code name cynthia, after long-lost love. pack seduced chief of station italian military intelligence , acquired italian navy cipher. beginning in 1942, pack posed pro-vichy journalist , got charles brousse, vichy french embassy s press attaché , vichy politician, fall in love , agree work oss asset. in near six-hour night burglary operation, pack , brousse let oss safecracker embassy carry away vichy code books photographing, , @ 1 point pack undressed cover operation deceiving suspicious night guard. after operation vichy codes, pack retired espionage because fell in love brousse.

commander courtney affair

commander anthony courtney tough , opinionated former naval officer , member of parliament denounced government of day , foreign office softness in permitting soviet , iron curtain diplomats abuse privileges espionage purposes. commander spoke fluent russian , in 1961 went bed intourist guide, zinaida grigorievna volkova, in fact regular kgb seductress, , kgb photographers captured it. kgb tried blackmail courtney ending parliamentary tirades, though refused, , circulated pictures other members of parliament , business associates. furthermore, private eye, london satirical journal, obtained photos , published them. courtney lost seat in following election.

ambassador dejean affair

maurice dejean, former french ambassador soviet union, old friend close connections president de gaulle, , had fondness women. kgb took advantage of , set dejean first lydia khovanskaya, divorcee spoke french, , later larissa kronberg-sobolevskaya, actress. while dejean larissa, pretend husband returned home, staged, geological expedition in siberia, , beat dejean, allowed him leave upon larissa s pleading. dejean went soviet friend, unbeknownst him worked kgb, quiet affair. soviets took no immediate action, preferred hold operation leverage in case keep french ambassador within sway. similar kgb honey traps on dejean s wife, marie-claire, unsuccessful. president de gaulle , french found out affair british intelligence, in turn learned of yuri krotkov, defector. krotkov defected in 1963 after french air force attaché, colonel louis guibard, shot himself when kgb showed him pictures took of affair russian woman , presented him choice of either exposure or collaboration.

sir geoffrey , galya

sir geoffrey harrison, british ambassador moscow, target of kgb blackmail attempt in 1968, when placed attractive maid named galya in diplomatic mission. sir geoffrey fell honey trap, , galya told him pictures had been taken , exposed unless provided information kgb. scandal broke, sir geoffrey had no action taken against him , retired on full pension.

kgb break-in @ swedish embassy in moscow

yuri nosenko, soviet defector west, detailed use of honey trap when kgb launched night operation raid swedish embassy in moscow twelve-strong crew of safe-pickers , break-in experts. according nosenko, female kgb seductress lured away embassy s night watchman , agent distracted guard dog feeding meat.

donald maclean

donald duart maclean british diplomat spied soviet union out of love it, , never received pay, although did kgb pension. however, make sure maclean not double-cross soviets, had guy burgess, homosexual brit spying soviets, take photos of maclean in bed man during orgy.

william vassall

william john vassall blatantly gay man boasted men said had come bed eyes, , in 1954, clerk in office of british naval attaché, vassall went moscow. polish clerk embassy took vassall party lots of alcohol , vassall became involved in homosexual capers. soon, vassall had been blackmailed , stealing classified information soviets.

anthony blunt

anthony blunt first recruited member of cambridge ring of five, spied soviet union.

at outbreak of second world war, blunt not job field security of army intelligence due communist background, appealed liddell, got blunt job in mi5. mi5 (although passed same information soviets), headed operation surreptitiously examined contents of diplomatic bags neutral countries embassies in london. in carrying out operation, blunt employed ravens , swallows seduce bag couriers.