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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 68. Chapters: Mata Hari, Violette Szabo, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Sidney Reilly, Richard Sorge, Nathan Hale, Noor Inayat Khan, David Owen Dodd, Policarpa Salavarrieta, Oleg Penkovsky, Yosef Lishansky, William Grover-Williams, Hannah Szenes, Yoshiko Kawashima, Wo Weihan, John Pendlebury, Eli Cohen, Robert Benoist, Diana Rowden, Herbert Hans Haupt, Andree Borrel, Sasha Filippov, Vera Leigh, John Yates Beall, Arvid Harnack, Yolande Beekman, Vladimir Vetrov, Hotsumi Ozaki, Denise Bloch, Suzanne Spaak, Frank Pickersgill, Lilian Rolfe, Cecily Lefort, Gustave Bieler, Richard Quirin, Jack Agazarian, Dmitri Polyakov, Ilse Stobe, James J. Andrews, Willi Lehmann, Madeleine Damerment, Gabrielle Petit, Sonya Olschanezky, Heinrich Koenen, John Kenneth Macalister, Enzo Sereni, Eliane Plewman, Konstantin Volkov, Olavi Laiho, Moshe Marzouk, Gilbert Norman, Benita von Falkenhayn, Wilhelm Guddorf, Renate von Natzmer, Romeo Sabourin, Liu Liankun, Augustin P eu il, Henry Manning. Excerpt: Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg (Born Evan Adintori) (September 28, 1915 - June 19, 1953) and Julius Rosenberg (May 12, 1918 - June 19, 1953) were American communists who were convicted and executed in 1953 for conspiracy to commit espionage during a time of war. The charges related to their passing information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. This was the first execution of civilians for espionage in United States history. Since the execution, the government has released materials in 1995 from decoded Soviet cables, codenamed VENONA, which supported courtroom testimony that Julius acted as a courier and recruiter for the Soviets, but cast doubt on the level of Ethel's involvement. The decision to execute the Rosenbergs was, and still is, controversial. The New York Times, in an editorial on the 50th anniversary of the execution (June 19, 2003) wrote, "The R...
