{"id":17186,"date":"2016-07-06T22:00:52","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T03:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=17186"},"modified":"2016-07-06T22:00:52","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T03:00:52","slug":"espionage-files-6-spies-who-risked-it-all-for-fame-money-sex-drugs-and-diamonds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/07\/06\/espionage-files-6-spies-who-risked-it-all-for-fame-money-sex-drugs-and-diamonds\/","title":{"rendered":"Espionage Files: 6 Spies Who Risked It All For Fame, Money, Sex, Drugs and Diamonds"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Anna Chapman, a Russian spy who was busted in a New York City spy ring, enjoys celebrity status in Moscow.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Spies. Subterfuge. Clandestine operations. Nothing gets people going like a thrilling tale of espionage \u2014 it\u2019s no wonder that movie franchises like the Bonds and the Bournes have seen so much commercial success. These real-life spies, however, aren\u2019t nearly as badass \u2014 and none of them were patriotically or ideologically driven. These nine spies committed espionage against the United States in the name of livin\u2019 the high life: for the love of sex, drugs, diamonds, and fame.<\/p>\n

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Aldrich Ames<\/strong>, who compromised the second-largest number of CIA agents after Robert Hanssen, is one of the most notorious spies in U.S. history. A former CIA agent turned KGB mole, Ames was known for his rampant alcoholism and frequent love affairs, according to a congressional assessment<\/a> of Ames\u2019 espionage case and its implications on U.S. intelligence. After a messy and expensive divorce, coupled with his new lover\u2019s expensive shopping sprees, Ames fell into massive debt. In an effort to alleviate his financial distresses and to continue impressing his mistress, Ames approached the KGB, and ultimately received over $4.6 million for the information he passed. Ames spent nine years as a KGB mole, spying from 1985 to 1994, and was eventually caught after a mole hunt surrounding a series of leaks pointed investigators directly to him.<\/p>\n

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Martha Dodd<\/strong> was a novelist and journalist \u2014 and also happened to be the daughter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt\u2019s ambassador to Germany. Throughout her young adulthood, Dodd was a Nazi sympathizer who frequently met with high-level members of the Third Reich, including Hitler himself, who she claimed to be \u201cexcessively gentle and modest in his manners\u201d \u2014 according to author and researcher Shareen Blair Brysac in her book \u201cChasing Hitler.\u201d Dodd eventually turned away from the Nazi philosophy, but was recruited by one of her many lovers to become a spy for the Soviet Union. This lover convinced her to sell State Department and embassy-related secrets to the Soviets, who later assessed her as an uncertain asset \u2014 \u00a0referring to her as a \u201csexually decayed woman ready to sleep with any handsome man,\u201d reported by authors Allen Weinstein and Vassiliev Weinstein in their book, \u201cThe Haunted Wood.\u201d She spied on the U.S. from 1936 to 1957, and was eventually caught by an FBI informant who implicated her in his exposure of the Soble spy network.<\/p>\n

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Jonathan Pollard<\/strong> is the only American spy who was given a life sentence for providing information to an ally of the United States. As an analyst for the Naval Intelligence Command, he leaked U.S. secrets to Israel for diamonds, cash, and even \u201cheritage\u201d in 1987. According to NCIS, he also released classified materials on numerous occasions to South Africa, Pakistan, and China in an effort to advance his wife\u2019s business. Pollard was busted when a colleague discovered him removing classified materials from their work center.<\/p>\n

Read the Remainder at Task and Purpose<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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These modern-day spies didn\u2019t have strong ideological allegiances, except perhaps to the high life. Spies. Subterfuge. Clandestine operations. Nothing gets people going like a thrilling tale of espionage \u2014 it\u2019s no wonder that movie franchises like the Bonds and the Bournes have seen so much commercial success. These real-life spies, however, aren\u2019t nearly as badass…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2908,4880],"tags":[12717,12718,1604,12719,12720,12721,1582],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}