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the same way that Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen devastated American
intelligence eorts, over the years, many spies have been recruited from for-
eign intelligence agencies who have likewise wreaked havoc on their own
countries.
One of the most famous spies in British and CIA history was Oleg
Vladimirovich Penkovsky, a colonel in Soviet military intelligence who
became a double agent for the West in 1960. Among other things, Penkovsky
provided valuable intelligence during the Cuban Missile Crisis that signi-
cantly assisted the United States in its dealings with the Soviet Union. His
career as a double ...