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    William John Christopher Vassall (20 September 1924 – 18 November 1996) was a British civil servant who spied for the Soviet Union, allegedly under pressure...
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  • Company, Vassall was among the merchants who petitioned Puritan courts for greater civil liberties and religious tolerance. In 1647, he and John Child published...
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  • John Vassall's spying Elizabeth Vassall, later Baroness Holland John Vassall, British civil servant who spied for the Soviet Union John Vassall Jr. (1738-1797)...
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  • Harrison, British ambassador; U.S. Army Major James R. Holbrook; William John Vassall, a homosexual British navy clerk; British MP Anthony Courtney; The Washington...
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    House–Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site (also known as the Vassall-Craigie-Longfellow House and, until December 2010, Longfellow National...
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    Henry Richard Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland of Holland, and 3rd Baron Holland of Foxley PC (21 November 1773 – 22 October 1840), was an English politician...
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    Samuel Vassall was 77 when he left London for Carolina in 1663. He died in the America colonies in 1667. Vassall was the second son of John Vassall and his...
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    was ever independently confirmed was the Soviet affiliation of John Vassall. Vassall was a relatively low-ranking spy who some researchers[who?] believe...
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  • The Vassall Tribunal was a public inquiry undertaken in 1963 by the British government in the wake of the John Vassall affair. Vassall, a civil servant...
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    possibility of a thermonuclear weapon; one month later, he filed a patent with John von Neumann, describing a thermonuclear weapon design the two had collaborated...
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  • influence over Russian leaders. In the 1950s, British civil servant John Vassall was a victim of a gay honey trap operation, producing kompromat which...
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    University Press: Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America, written by John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr, and Alexander Vassiliev; Vassiliev's notebooks...
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    lived (though at different times), as well as John Vassall and his seven slaves including Darby Vassall. Samuel Atkins Eliot, writing in 1913 about the...
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  • Union are Guy Burgess and Donald D. Maclean of Great Britain in 1951, Otto John of West Germany in 1954, William H. Martin and Bernon F. Mitchell, U.S. cryptographers...
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    Christopher John Boyce (born 16 February 1953) is a former American defense industry employee who was convicted of selling United States spy satellite...
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    in 1962, the case of John Vassall, a homosexual Admiralty clerk who had been blackmailed into spying by the Soviet Union. Vassall was subsequently sentenced...
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    character and testimony. At Greenglass' sentencing hearing, his attorney O. John Rogge repeatedly told the court his client deserved "a pat on the back" for...
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    and explorer St John Philby and his wife, Dora Johnston. A member of the Indian Civil Service (ICS) at the time of Philby's birth, St John later became a...
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    Alan Nunn May John Peet Geoffrey Prime Goronwy Rees Michael John Smith Dave Springhall John Alexander Symonds Edith Tudor-Hart John Vassall Arthur Wynn...
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  • John Cairncross (25 July 1913 – 8 October 1995) was a British civil servant who became an intelligence officer and spy during the Second World War. As...
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  • Revenge John Phillips (surveyor) (died 1897), British engineer and surveyor John Vassall (a.k.a. John Phillips, 1924–1996), British convicted spy John Aristotle...
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    Alan Nunn May John Peet Geoffrey Prime Goronwy Rees Michael John Smith Dave Springhall John Alexander Symonds Edith Tudor-Hart John Vassall Arthur Wynn...
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    Alan Nunn May John Peet Geoffrey Prime Goronwy Rees Michael John Smith Dave Springhall John Alexander Symonds Edith Tudor-Hart John Vassall Arthur Wynn...
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  • 1950s. He was the fourth member of the group to be discovered; the fifth, John Cairncross, was yet to be revealed. The height of Blunt's espionage activity...
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  • Retrieved 9 February 2018. Simkin, John. "Melita Norwood". Spartacus Educational. Retrieved 3 April 2021. Cunningham, John (28 June 2005). "Melita Norwood"...
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    regularly attended a 6:30 a.m. daily Mass for over a decade. Opus Dei member C. John McCloskey said he also occasionally attended the daily noontime Mass at the...
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    fruitful source of high-level gossip); the poet John Betjeman; and Philby's father, the Arabist and explorer St John Philby. Burgess also sought out Winston Churchill...
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    communications security (COMSEC). In the books of such spy novelists as Ian Fleming, John le Carré and Tom Clancy, characters frequently engage in tradecraft, e.g...
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  • Operations. New York: Enigma Books. p. 141. ISBN 9781929631759. Simkin, John. "Litzi Friedmann". Spartacus Educational. Spartacus Educational Publishers...
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  • connection to the Soviet spy John Vassall, a former Admiralty employee, after letters from Galbraith were found in Vassall's possession. It was thought...
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