Espionage - Spy Agents & Spy Rings Historical Documents Archive USB Drive

Espionage - Spy Agents & Spy Rings Historical Documents Archive USB Drive

 
103,247 pages of CIA, FBI, MI5, NSA, Department of Defense, British Foreign Office, Prime Minister Office, and Cabinet Office files in 24 collections.

Espionage - Spy Agents & Spy Rings Historical Documents Archive USB Drive works with any device with a USB 2.0, 3.0 or 3.1 interface. The Pen card chip is housed in a metal body that is waterproof, shock-proof, temperature-proof, magnet-proof, and X-ray-proof. 

This collection includes as a finding aid, a unified full-text index of all computer recognizable text in all documents in this collection, making it possible to quickly search all computer recognizable text across all pages of all collections in one search.

Collections include:

Aldrich Ames CIA Files & Government Reports 

This collection contains 804 pages of material. Aldrich Ames worked as an officer of the CIA's Directorate of Operations, tasked with intelligence matters relating to the Soviet Union. Ames' job responsibilities gave him access to the identities of some of the Soviet sources who had been recruited and operated by U.S. intelligence agencies. Ames’s Russian code name was KOLOKOL, Russian for bell.

Cambridge Five Spy Ring - Philby, Burgess, McLean Spy Case FBI, MI5, and British Foreign Office, Prime Minister Office & Cabinet Office Files 

8,236 pages of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and British MI5, Security Service, Foreign Office, Prime Minister's Office & Cabinet Office files covering The Cambridge Five Spy Ring. Some of the MI5 files were not available to the public until September 2019. 

The Cambridge Five members (Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, Donald McLean, Anthony Blunt, and John Cairncross) are perhaps the most infamous spy ring of the 20th century. They worked their way into the upper ranks of British Intelligence in order to spy for the Soviet Union. Their work is considered to have contributed to the deaths of dozens of British agents. None of the Cambridge Five were ever prosecuted. The term “Cambridge" for the group is used because they all were students at the University of Cambridge in the 1930s.

 
CIA Field Double Agent Manual 

A Top-Secret until October 2018 manual published by the CIA in August 1960 titled, Field Double Agent Guide, and marked on every page, “KUBARK INTERNAL USE ONLY.” KUBARK was the CIA code name for the CIA. The manual is based on research by KUDESK (KUDESK was the CIA's code name for the CIA Counterintelligence Department).

"The double agent operation is one of the most demanding and complex counterintelligence activities in which an intelligence service can engage," begins an article about double-agents in an article appearing in the CIA's official classified journal in 1962, by an unidentified writer using the name, "F.M. Begoum."

The manual covers a wide range of subjects involved in running a double agent (DA).

 
Civil War: Confederate Spy - Rose O'Neal Greenhow: Papers - Letters - Memoirs – Histories

1,111 pages of letters, papers, memoirs, histories, and photos related to Rose O'Neal Greenhow. Rose O'Neal Greenhow (1817-1864) was a popular socialite in Washington, DC, and a spy for the South during the Civil War.


Civil War: U.S. Army Civil War and Reconstruction Era Courts Martial Records

10,200 pages of U.S. Army Civil War and Reconstruction Era military trial records, general courts martial and military commission trials.

The proceedings of the military trials, general court martial orders and military commissions, dating from the Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1861 to 1872. They consist of bound typeset abstracts of case record summaries, which contain the most important points from the documents and legal papers of the proceedings.

The abstracts commonly include the name of the accused, rank or civilian designation, charges, narrative of accusations, pleadings of the defendant, the verdict, sentence, and any notes relevant to the case. Many abstracts include the presiding officer's signature. Most volumes include an index of names.

The charges found in these documents range from murder, rape, spying, treason, desertion, embezzlement, theft, conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman, disorderly conduct, disobedience of orders, disloyal statements, drunkenness, and various misdemeanors and infractions of military rules.

 
Duquesne Nazi Germany Spy Ring FBI & MI6 Files

2,966 pages of FBI and British intelligence files covering the Duquesne Spy Ring.

On January 2, 1942, 33 members of a Nazi spy ring headed by Frederick Joubert Duquesne were sentenced to serve a total of over 300 years in prison. William Sebold, who had been recruited as a spy for Germany, was a major factor in the FBI's successful resolution of this case through his work as a double agent for the United States.

 
Harriet Tubman - Documents, Newspapers, Books 

This collection has 2,125 pages of material. 

Harriet Tubman was born into slavery as Araminta Ross, born between 1822 and 1824 and died on March 10, 1913. She was most famous for missions leading African American slaves to freedom. She was also a Civil War scout, spy, and nurse. After the Civil War she was a suffragist and civil rights activist.
 

John Walker - Walker/Whitworth Spy Ring CIA FBI NSA DOD FILES & Navy Film

2,822 pages of material related to John Walker and the Walker Family Spy case, also known as the Walker-Whitworth Spy Ring. Navy Chief Warrant Officer John Anthony Walker (1937-2014) was working for the US Navy as a communications specialist when he started spying for the Soviet Union.

1985 was referred to in the media as the "Year of the Spy," due to 8 major espionage cases breaking that year, including the high-profile case of a spy ring lead by John Anthony Walker, Jr. Walker was a U.S. Navy Warrant Officer, later a private industry communications specialist from 1967 to 1985, who spied for the Soviet Union. For more than 17 years, Walker provided top cryptographic secrets to the Soviets, compromising at least one million classified messages. After retiring from the Navy, he also recruited three people with security clearances into his espionage ring: his brother Arthur, his son Michael, and his good friend Jerry Whitworth. Damage assessments found that the information passed Walker and his confederates would have been devastating to the U.S. had the nation gone to war with the Soviets. The ring was broken-up due to a tip from Walker's ex-wife. He was arrested on May 20, 1985, eventually pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to life in prison. Walker died in a federal prison medical center in Butner, N.C. on August 28, 2014, at the age of 77.
 

Jonathan Pollard Spy Case - Damage Assessments, CIA, FBI, Department of Defense, White House Files

2,614 pages of CIA, FBI, Department of Defense Files and Congressional Research Service reports and White House documents covering the Jonathan Pollard spy case.

Jonathan Jay Pollard (born August 7, 1954) was an intelligence analyst for the Naval Investigative Service. In 1987, as part of a plea agreement, Pollard pleaded guilty to spying for and providing topsecret classified information to Israel. He was sentenced to life in prison for violations of the Espionage Act. He was granted parole on July 7, 2015, and released on November 20, 2015.

 
Judith Coplon - VENONA Soviet Spy Case FBI, CIA & State Dept Files, Newspaper Articles

This collection contains 7,529 pages. Judith Coplon was the first person to face trial due to evidence obtained from the American intelligence operation known as VENONA, which was able to intercept and decode many Soviet diplomatic and intelligence messages. Convictions from her two trials were overturned due to FBI agents lying at trial about the source of information against Coplon.

This collection contains 7,529 pages of files, made up of FBI files, Coplon espionage trial transcripts, CIA files, VENONA intercepts related to Soviet intelligence asset SIMA (Judith Coplon) and newspaper articles related to the Judith Coplon-Gubitchev espionage case. Judith Coplon Socolov (1921 – 2011) was born in Brooklyn, New York. When she graduated from Barnard College during World War II, she had already adopted communist ideologies and was a member of the Young Communist League. She graduated from Barnard College cum laude in 1943 and went on to Columbia University. At Columbia a classmate of Coplon's, Flora Wovschin and Soviet intelligence Marion Davis Berdecio, recruited her for Soviet intelligence. She was even the pseudonym SIMA, by Soviet intelligence.

 
Manhattan Project Spy for the Soviet Union George Koval FBI Files

1,892 pages of FBI files covering George Koval, the American born Soviet Spy code named "DELMAR" who infiltrated the Manhattan Project.

John Earl Haynes, a historian at the Library of Congress and an authority on the cold war, says of Koval, "Koval was a trained agent, not an American civilian. He was that rarity, which you see a lot in fiction but rarely in real life—a sleeper agent. A penetration agent. A professional officer."

George Abramovich Koval (1913 – 2006) was an American who acted as a Soviet intelligence asset. According to various Russian sources, Koval's infiltration of the Manhattan Project as a GRU (Soviet military intelligence) agent drastically reduced the amount of time it took for Russia to develop nuclear weapons. American intelligence estimated that the Soviet Union would have the bomb between 1950 and 1953. The first Soviet atomic bomb, code-named by the Americans as Joe 1, was detonated on August 29, 1949. The design was very similar to the first US "Fat Man" plutonium bomb, using a TNT/hexogen implosion lens design. According to Michael Walsh in his May 2009 Smithsonian article, "George Koval: Atomic Spy Unmasked," the initiator for the plutonium bomb was, according to Russian military officials, "prepared to the 'recipe' provided by military intelligence agent Delmar [Koval]"

 
Mata Hari: Alleged Spy for Germany British Intelligence Files & Newspaper Articles

229 pages of MI5 British intelligence files, photographs, newspaper articles, and history covering Margaretha "Margreet" Geertruida Zelle MacLeod, also known as Mata Hari, who was accused of spying for Germany during World War I.

Mata Hari, legal name Margaretha Geertruida Zelle MacLeod (August 7, 1876 – October 15, 1917), was a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan. While in the custody of French officials, a French military court convicted her of spying for Germany. She was executed by firing squad on October 15, 1917.

 
Oleg Penkovsky - Soviet Military Intelligence (GRU) Colonel and Highest-Ranking Soviet Spying for the West - CIA Files

This collection contains 3,167 pages, mostly CIA files. 

Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky, “the single most valuable agent in CIA history,” went from a Russian World War II military hero, and a colonel in Soviet Military Intelligence (GRU), to becoming America's best human intelligence asset in the Soviet Union. 

He believed that Nikita Khrushchev's leadership was taking the Soviet Union onto the path of destruction. Penkovsky was the highest-level Soviet officer to ever spy for the United States or British Intelligence. The Penkovsky case is considered to have been the most successful Cold War espionage operation. Penkovsky was observed by KGB agents after a meeting with a British intelligence contact, which lead to his arrest.

 
OSS (Office of Strategic Services) Field, Training, & Doctrine Handbooks, Treatments and Manuals 

This collection includes a total of 3,275 pages.

The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) is often called America's first intelligence agency. Founded during World War II, The Office of Strategic Services, better known by its acronym OSS, was a predecessor of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The OSS was formed to coordinate espionage activities behind enemy lines. The Agency defined itself as, "The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) is an agency of the Joint Chiefs of Staff charged with collecting and analyzing strategic information and secret intelligence required for military operations, and with planning and executing programs of physical sabotage and morale subversion against the enemy to support military operations."

All computer recognizable text, transcriptions, reproduced printed text, and description sheets in the collection are searchable. OSS Field, Training, & Doctrine Manuals 2,153 pages in 29 OSS publications.


Sidney George Reilly - "Reilly Ace of Spies" MI5 British Intelligence & Royal Air Force Files

The MI5 files contain 171 pages of documents dating from 1916 to 1944. The British, so-called 'Ace of Spies', worked for British Intelligence in the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution. Reilly was lured back into the USSR in 1925, arrested and executed. The file reveals that Reilly was a Russian born Jew who was engaged in business activity in New York in 1915, when he came under suspicion from the Russians as being a German spy.

 
World War II: British MI5 Report on Counter Espionage Methods 

Report on the work of MI5's B1B in connection with the use of ISOS material and counter espionage methods in Gibraltar from 1939-1945. The acronym ISOS stood for Intelligence Service Oliver Strachey, Strachey being the veteran codebreaker at Bletchley Park who had broken the Abwehr ciphers. This report was written after the war by Herbert HART, the head of MI5's B1B section. This small MI5 section was its link with SIS, the Radio Security Service and Bletchley Park on German signals intelligence. MI5’s B1B section analyzed decrypted communications picked up from German military intelligence.

 
World War II Escape from Enemy Territory Reports

 44,105 pages composed of 2,950 Escape and Evasion reports. These reports were created by the United States War Department, U.S. Forces, European Theater,

Military Intelligence Service (MIS) Escape and Evasion Section (MIS-X) and Interview Section, Collection and Administration Branch. The source of the information contained in these Escape and Evasion reports are chiefly from American aircrewmen who escaped from behind enemy lines.

The Gestapo searched for those aiding the escape of allied personnel. Hundreds of the "helpers" who got American servicemen back to allied territory were sent to concentration camps or were executed. The servicemen also put themselves at risk. Their attempt to return, instead of waiting out the war in a POW camp, often involved ditching their uniforms and wearing civilian clothing. This meant that they lost protection under the Geneva Convention, and if captured could have been executed as spies. Those who managed to walk out of German occupied Europe were referred to as belonging to the “blister club.”

By October 1942, allied intelligence had set up a system to gain intelligence from the returned. They were usually sent to England to be debriefed by intelligence officers. They were immediately sworn to secrecy about their experiences. They signed a document that included the statement, "Information about your escape or your evasion from capture would be useful to the enemy and a danger to your friends. It is therefore SECRET."

 Many of the evaders and escapees had spent weeks behind enemy lines. They had information about fortifications, results of allied bombing, its accuracy and the extent of bomb damage, military production, the condition of railroad lines, airfields, troop encampments, coastal and interior defenses, anti-aircraft batteries, radar installations, location of enemy factories and ammunition dumps, and enemy and civilian morale that could only be had by someone who had spent time on the ground.

 
World War II German Saboteurs Infiltration of America British MI5, JAG Files, and Trial Transcripts

5,171 pages of British intelligence MI5, U.S. Judge Advocate General, FBI, and Supreme Court files covering the apprehension, trial, and execution of German saboteurs who landed in America in June of 1942.

On June 13, and June 17, 1942, two groups of German sabotage agents landed on Long Island and Florida as part of a German Abwehr operation. Operation Pastorius was the codename for the failed operation. The mission was named by Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, the chief of Abwehr, the German military intelligence organization. Canaris named the mission after Francis Daniel Pastorius, who was the leader of the first organized settlement of Germans in America.

The saboteurs selected for the mission were eight Germans who had spent time in the United States, two were American citizens. They were trained at a sabotage school outside of Berlin where they studied chemistry, incendiaries, explosives, timing devices, secret writing, and concealment of identity.

The targets planned for their mission included: hydroelectric plants at Niagara Falls, Aluminum Company of America's plants, Ohio River locks, the Horseshoe Curve railroad pass near Altoona, PA, the Pennsylvania Railroad's rail yards, a cryolite plant in Philadelphia, Hell Gate Bridge in New York; and Pennsylvania Station in Newark, New Jersey.

On June 13, and June 17, 1942, two groups of German sabotage agents landed on Long Island and Florida as part of a German Abwehr operation. Operation Pastorius was the codename for the failed operation. The mission was named by Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, the chief of Abwehr, the German military intelligence organization. Canaris named the mission after Francis Daniel Pastorius, who was the leader of the first organized settlement of Germans in America.

 
World War II Marina Lee Nazi Spy - Fall of Norway to Nazi Germany British MI5 Files

39 pages of British Intelligence MI5 files covering Marina Lee who was spying for Germany. The files date from 1941 to 1960. Marina Lee, also known as Marina Lie (1902-976) was a ballerina and Nazi spy during World War II. The MI5 received information that Lee stole battle plans from the British Expeditionary Forces in

Norway, which led to the fall of Norway to Nazi Germany in 1940.

 
World War II Mutt & Jeff Double Agents MI5 British Intelligence Files

531 pages of British intelligence MI5 documents dealing with the activity of double agents MUTT and JEFF during World War II.

John Herbert Neal Moe was born on May 13, 1919, in London of mixed Norwegian and British parentage. In July 1940 he was introduced to Tor Glad, who worked as a postal censor for the German occupation government in Oslo. The Norwegian born Glad was recruited by the Germans in 1939 to spy on British agents in Southern Norway. Glad says he made no attempt to do any spying.

In April 1941, a German seaplane landed off the coast of Scotland and Moe and Glad were put in a rubber dingy that they paddled to the beach at Aberdeenshire. Their mission was to perform acts of sabotage and to report on British military activity. They were expected to set fires in food dumps and factories, to sever power lines and generally to create panic among the British population. The Germans wanted reports by radio on the location of airfields and the effect of German bombing. 

Immediately after getting to the shore, they turned themselves in to the local police. The MI5 soon convinced the pair to work as British agents.

 
World War II Office of Strategic Services (OSS) War Report - History of the OSS

This collection contains a total of 3,421 pages. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) is often called America's first intelligence agency or the predecessor of the CIA.

 
World War II: Pearl Harbor Spy Bernard Kuehn FBI File

777 pages of FBI Files covering the convicted Pearl Harbor spy Bernard Julius Otto Kuehn.

The first documented attention the FBI gave to Bernard Kuehn is shown in a February 11, 1939, FBI memo sent to J. Edgar Hoover where he is described as an "advanced student of Japanese language - entertain lavishly, particularly army officers - no apparent source of income - own two homes – one very large. Mysterious as to length of stay and reason for residing in Hawaii. Defend Hitler in clever manner." The memo mentions the FBI's lack of having a Special Agent in Charge in Hawaii.

Very soon the Bureau was suspicious of Kuehn. He had questionable contacts with the Germans and Japanese. He'd lavishly entertained U.S. military officials and expressed interest in their work. He had two houses in Hawaii, but no real job. Investigations by the Bureau and the Army, though, never turned up definite proof of his spying.