Palestinian-born American citizen Victor Norris Hamilton graduated from the American University in Beirut and moved to the US hoping to find an academic position. Join Ripley’s Newsletter and get weird news and exclusive offers like 20% OFF Books + Free Shipping when you sign up!

The attack had apparently been spurred by the CIA’s belief that Chou En-lai would be onboard. Noel Field served as a US State Department official from the late 1920s to 1936. At one time, he even became responsible for apprehending himself, and he passed some of that off to Aldrich Ames (above). Charges related to passing atomic bomb secrets to Russian agents (the data came from Ethel’s brother, who worked on the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos). On hearing that many POWs claimed to have been tortured, Fonda denounced them as “liars”. Then he had a final dinner with his wife before fleeing into the desert. Both men married Soviet women and went on to work and study in Leningrad. Abshier, 40, died in 1983 in Pyongyang from a heart attack. After failing to find employment, he was working as a doorman when he was recruited as a code breaker for the NSA’s Production Organization. They featured him and three other deserters in a propaganda pamphlet. In a letter to her mother, Wovschin said that she was going to the home of “blind old Minkie’s parents,” which was an oblique reference to the family’s aged Chinese poodle. However, he became depressed due to family problems and was dissatisfied with the military’s official ban on gays. However, Wilkinson believed the plan would fail, and ratted him out to President Thomas Jefferson. The numbers of those who went the other way are much fewer, but even some government employees were lured to the East. Smith also wrote a number of articles for the Soviet newspaper Literaturnaya Gazeta, which became the subject of his 1967 book, I Was a CIA Agent in India. By 1965, Charles Robert Jenkins was a well-respected veteran of the 8th Cavalry. . “With the Pentagon talking to him through the television, he’s stopped listening to the radio.”. The most famous American exile in Moscow was Lee Harvey Oswald. Born to a Pennsylvania mining family of Croatian origin, Annabelle Bucar was described as having an affinity for Slavs. So he decided to sabotage the sabotage.

Neither man was gay, either, a conclusion the NSA reached a year later after interviewing 450 people who knew the pair. Soon afterward, they are believed to have joined the American Communist Party and offered their assistance to a KGB officer at the Soviet embassy in Mexico. He served 12 years in prison. He resigned in 1960 and wandered around Europe before defecting to the Soviet Union. His zeal in their propaganda was cartoonish in its intensity, but all too real. And they eventually became North Korean movie stars. The deputy director of the hospital refused to let any male reporters or photographers interview him, as Victor was suffering from delusions that every man was a KGB agent out to get him. Jenkins married a Japanese woman, whom the North Koreans kidnapped so she could teach their spies Japanese. He told a member of the surveillance team that he was ready to talk if he had a lawyer. ©2020 Ripley Entertainment Inc. All rights reserved |, A Rat Among Men: Rodent Wins Esteemed PDSA Gold Medal, Prepare To Be Blown Away… Ripley’s Annual On Sale Now, WATCH: Unlocking Lincoln Featuring Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris, 99-Year-Old Veteran Makes Strides At Ripley’s Aquarium Of Canada, Fresh Facts About The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air, Will Smith, Unlocking Lincoln Featuring Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris: LIVE September 28th @ 3 p.m. EST.

When asked why he had defected, he replied, “I simply decided to live here or not to live.”, The next year, it was announced that he had committed suicide in his garage at age 32. The Feds had even monitored his e-mails to Imam Anwar al-Awlaki, also known as the “Bin Laden of the Internet”. Field still believed that the Soviet troops then marauding across the country killing demonstrators were the true revolutionaries in service to the glory of the workers’ state. Charles Robert Jenkins in 2004, after leaving North Korea.

Adams, Clarence (Cpl.) After joining the State Department as a communications clerk in 1950, John Discoe Smith of Massachusetts was allegedly involved with CIA operations while working at the US embassy in India from 1954 to 1959. Much like Aaron Burr (above) Arnold’s plan unraveled due to an intercepted document: when American forces captured British Major John André carrying papers revealing the proposed surrender of West Point, Arnold fled to a British ship docked on the Hudson river, narrowly escaping the forces of one highly pissed off George Washington. Dresnok was just 21 years old when he crossed into North Korea through the DMZ.


At about the same time, Jenkins and other defectors were ordered to appear in a 20-hour propaganda film, Unsung Heroes, acting as villainous U.S. military leaders. Their past indiscretions were forgiven, and they were no longer hated by the North Koreans. “He obviously was crazy, but he was not a rapist,” she said. An American-born convert to Islam, Adam Yahiye Gadahn (aka, “Azzam the American”) threatened a terrorist attack on Los Angeles in a 2005 Al Qaeda video. The NSA even claimed that Mitchell had admitted to sexual experimentation with chickens and dogs. His troubles became worse when he was fingered as a Soviet informant (code-named “Robert”) by ex-KGB defector Vitaly Yurchenko. The KGB persuaded Lapshin to continue the affair to compel Bucar to defect. He became radicalized in 1927 through exposure to the Sacco-Vanzetti case. . ] While still a general on the American side, he became Commander of the West Point fort in New York, and offered to surrender it to the British.
Burr believed a small army could steal Louisiana away, so he contacted Britain’s ambassador, offering to help Britain take the territory. They were used in the 1955 bombing of an Air India flight which was transporting a Chinese communist government delegation to the Bandung Conference. An American citizen of Japanese descent, she worked as a Radio Tokyo announcer from 1943-1945. Calling his decision to defect to North Korea “the biggest mistake I ever made,” he lived in Japan with his wife and two daughters until his death at age 77 in 2017. Authorities reopened her case with a vengeance in 1948, and she was promptly convicted of treason in 1949.

Although he was only paid 300 deutsche marks for his deliveries, the East Germans also supplied him with high-quality steroids for his hobby of long-distance bike riding. Sadly, political correctness and a slow-moving investigation prevented the Army from taking action before Hasan murdered 13 people and wounded 30 others.

The revised analysis suggested that Souther had given valuable information to the Soviets, which endangered US satellite surveillance programs. They shared one room while being constantly monitored by the North Korean government. The four American soldiers became North Korean movie staples. No explanation for the extremely close parallels was ever given by Orlov.

Throughout the Cold War, many citizens, soldiers, and officials of the communist bloc defected to the peace, freedom, and prosperity of the West. As a full-on member of their “media committee”, Gadahn served Al Qaeda as translator, video producer, cultural interpreter and spokesman. In the late 1960s, Jenkins made pro-Pyongyang radio broadcasts and even appeared as an American villain in a propaganda film.