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John M. Deutch
American government official
Vladimir A. Kryuchkov
Soviet politician
William H. Webster
United States government official
Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin
president of Russia
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Sir Francis Walsingham
English statesman
Noor Inayat Khan
Noor Inayat Khan
British resistance agent
Paul Kagame
Paul Kagame
president of Rwanda
Edward Snowden
Edward Snowden
American intelligence contractor
Louis XV, detail of a portrait by Hyacinthe Rigaud; in the Chateau de Versailles
Louis XV
king of France
Chelsea Manning
Chelsea Manning
United States Army intelligence analyst
Tulsi Gabbard
Tulsi Gabbard
American politician
Aaron Bank
United States Army officer
John Brennan
John Brennan
American intelligence officer
John Cairncross
British civil servant and spy
Ralph Van Deman
United States general
Alexander Litvinenko
Alexander Litvinenko
Russian security agent
Coats, Dan
Dan Coats
United States senator
Church, Frank; Carter, Jimmy
Frank Church
American politician
Porter Goss
American politician
John Negroponte.
John Negroponte
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