Espionage

By the time of the Elizabethan age in England espionage had become such a necessary element of national security, Elizabeth I had Sir Francis Walsingham organize an elaborate network of intelligence just to spy on the Spanish alone not to mention other countries. Espionage has indeed been in existence for longer than the public has known of the Espionage ( ). .
             There are many, many famous world spies that were in existence that helped shape our world as we know it today. Abel Rudolph headed a Soviet spy network in United States in 1950's. He worked for Soviet intelligence from the 1930's, arrived in United States via Canada, with forged passport 1948. He was arrested 1957 and convicted, and exchanged for American pilot Francis Gary Powers a captured U-2 spy-plane pilot, in 1962 ( ). Anthony Blunt was a British art historian who served as double agent for Soviet Union; he became Communist while at Cambridge University in England during the 1930's, also an associate of Guy Burgess, Kim Philby, and Donald Maclean. Early in World War II he joined British intelligence (MI5) and Helped Burgess and Maclean flee to Moscow 1951 confessed in 1964, was made public in 1979 ( ). The Culper Ring was Group that spied for George Washington during American Revolution, including Benjamin Tallmadge, Abraham Woodhull, and Robert Townsend. Spied for Washington throughout the war, mainly in New York-New England area, the British never learned of network, and few Americans knew of it ( ). Another important spy in American history is Rose O"Neil Greenhow she lived in Washington, D.C., and spied for South during American Civil War, she used couriers to send messages to Confederate government regarding Northern troop movements and battle plans during early part of war; she was arrested and deported to the South in 1862. Another important spy during the Civil War was Timothy Webster he spied on the Confederacy for North during early Civil War.