2014 Event The U.S. will end its 1960 embargo and reestablish diplomatic relations with Cuba; the agreement took place after an exchange of three Cuban spies for aid worker Alan Gross and an unnamed American spy 2014 Event Responding to privacy concerns raised by former spy contractor Edward Snowden's NSA disclosures, U.S. President Barack Obama announces reforms to NSA phone surveillance 2014 Event It is revealed that the National Security Agency, NSA, is using software to spy on nearly 100,000 computers around the world; most of the software is implanted by accessing the Internet, but some technology enables data to be entered or altered through radio wave transmission 2012 Event After being convicted of corruption, Jordan's former spy chief, Mohammad al-Dahabi, is sentenced to 13 years of imprisonment 2008 Event U.S. Navy destroys a U.S. spy satellite with a missile 1997 Death Sheldon Leonard, producer and director, I Spy - Dick Van Dyke, dies at 89 1996 Death John Vassall, spy/civil servant, dies at 72 1996 Death Alger Hiss, former alleged spy/lawyer, dies at 92 1996 Death Pavel Anatolievich Sudoplatov, spy, dies at 89 1996 Event "Spy Hard," starring Leslie Nielsen is released 1995 Event Israel grants jailed U.S. spy Jason Pollard, citizenship 1993 Death Claude Renoir, French cinematographer (Spy Who Loved Me), dies at 78 1990 Death Malcolm Muggeridge, WW II spy for Britain, dies at 87 1990 Death Will Kuluva, actor (To Trap a Spy, Go Naked in World), dies at 73 1988 Birthday Alexa Vega, born in Miami, Florida, actress, singer, pianist, appeared in 'Repo! the Genetic Opera', 'Spy Kids' trilogy films 1988 Death Dmitri F Polyakov, Russian secret-general/top spy for U.S., executed 1986 Event U.S. releases soviet spy Gennadiy Zakharov 1986 Event U.S.S.R. releases U.S. journalist Nicholas Daniloff confined on spy charges 1986 Event Jonathan Pollard, spy for Israel, pleads guilty in U.S. court 1985 Death Heleb MacInnes, U.S. spy writer (Affiliate in place), dies at 77 1983 Death Stephen Murray, actor (Guilty, Silent Dust, Master Spy), dies at 70 1983 Death Anthony F Blunt, British art historian/spy for U.S.S.R., dies at 75 1982 Event Dutch Internal minister Mr. M Red assigns BVD to spy on communists 1982 Death Leopold Trepper, Polish/Israeli spy (WW II), dies at 77 1981 Death Mehmet Shehu, Prime Minister Albania 1954 - 1981, American spy, commits suicide 1979 Event British government identifies Sir Anthony Blunt as 4th man in Soviet spy ring 1975 Death Evelyn Brent, actress (Nitwits, Last Command, Spy Train), dies at 75 1974 Event Chancellor Willy Brandt sect Gunther Guillaume found to be a spy 1968 Birthday Owen Wilson, born in Dallas, Texas, actor, writer, comedian, appeared in film, 'You, Me and Dupree', 'Starsky & Hutch', 'I Spy', 'Night at the Museum', 'The Darjeeling Unlimited' 1968 Event Spy ship USS Pueblo and 83-man crew seized in Sea of Japan by N Korea 1964 Event Lockheed SR-71 spy aircraft reaches 3,530 kph (record for a jet) 1963 Death Guy Burgess, British spy for the U.S.S.R. 1963 Event British spy Kim Philby found in Moscow 1962 Event U.S.S.R. swaps spy Francis Gary Power to U.S. for Rudolph Abel 1962 Event British spy Kim Philby defects to U.S.S.R. 1961 Event USAF launches Samos spy satellite to replace U-2 flights 1960 Event Francis Gary Powers U-2 spy trial opens in Moscow 1960 Event Big 4 summit in Paris collapses as U.S.S.R. levels spy charges against US 1960 Event U.S.S.R. announces Francis Gary Powers confessed to being a CIA spy 1960 Event Russia shoots down Francis Gary Powers in a U-2 spy plane 1957 Event U.S. sentences Soviet spy Rudolf Ivanovich Abel to 30 years and $3,000 1957 Event Soviet spy Jack Sobel sentenced to 7 years (New York City) 1957 Death Helen Haye, actress (Girl in the Taxi, Spy in Black), dies at 83 1956 Birthday Bruce Greenwood, actor, Spy, Another Chance, Malibu Bikini Shop 1954 Event U.S. spy plane shot down North of Japan 1952 Death Walter Schellenberg, German lawyer/headed spy (Venlo), dies 1950 Event Nuclear physicist Klaus Fuchs arrested on spy charges 1949 Birthday Barbara Bach, Goldbach, Queens, New York, actress, Spy Who Loved Me 1947 Death Ganzefles, Dutch nazi spy/Jews hunter, executed 1945 Death Hans Oster, German major-general/spy, "July 20th plot", hanged 1942 Death Daniel J Callaghan, U.S. spy (at Guadalcanal), dies 1941 Event Spy Richard Sorge arrested in Tokyo 1941 Death Josef Jakobs, German spy, executed in Tower of London 1941 Event English Army breaks German spy codes 1937 Birthday Bill Cosby, born in Philadelphia, actor/comedian, I Spy, Cosby, Leonard Part 6 1937 Birthday Tom Courtenay, born in England, actor, Dresser, Dr. Zhivago, To Catch a Spy 1936 Death Samuel Pl'h Naber, spy/librarian, dies at 71 1932 Birthday Robert Vaughn, New York City, actor, Napolean Solo-Man from UNCLE, I Spy 1932 Birthday John Glen, Thames England, actor, Spy Who Loves Me, Backfire 1932 Birthday Jayne Mansfield, Vera Jane Palmer, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, actress, Fat Spy 1931 Birthday John LeCarre, Cornwell, England, spy novelist, Little Drummer Girl 1931 Birthday Garfield Morgan, Brtish actor, Odessa File, To Catch a Spy 1930 Birthday Robert Culp, Berkley California, actor, I Spy, Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice 1929 Birthday Francis Gary Powers, U.S. spy, U.S.S.R. captures him in 1959 U-2 incident 1927 Birthday Robert Ludlum, New York City, spy novelist, Bourne Identity 1924 Birthday John Vassall, spy/civil servant 1923 Event Coolidge pardons WW I German spy Lothar Witzke, sentenced to death 1923 Birthday John Weitz, spy/author/fashion designer, Friends in High Places 1918 Birthday E. Howard Hunt, born in New York, American author, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) spy, involved in Watergate 1918 Birthday Marguerite Chapman, born in Chatham, New York, actress, Spy Smasher, Flight to Mars 1918 Birthday Halsey S. Colchester, British SAS, spy for MI6 and priest 1917 Death Mata Hari, Dutch dancer/German spy, executed by firing squad in Paris 1916 Death Horace Hood, British spy (Battle of Jutland), dies in battle 1914 Birthday Arthur Sydney Martin, spy catcher 1912 Birthday Kim Philby, British spy/Soviet mole 1911 Birthday Klaus EJ Fuchs, German/British atomic physicist/spy 1911 Birthday Klaus E J Fuchs, German/British/German nuclear physicist/spy 1909 Birthday Eric Ambler, London, suspense writer, Epitaph for a Spy 1907 Birthday Anthony F Blunt, British historian/spy for U.S.S.R. 1904 Birthday Leopold Trepper, Polish/Israeli spy/founded, CP Palestina 1895 Birthday Richard Sorge, German spy for U.S.S.R. in Tokyo, WW II 1888 Birthday Hans Oster, German major general/spy/July 20th plotter 1876 Birthday Mata Hari, Margaretha G Zelle, dancer, courtesan and spy, WW I 1843 Birthday Belle Boyd, spy, Confederate, actress/lecturer 1810 Death Charles GLAAT chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont, French spy, dies at 81 1799 Death Etta L J "baronne" Palm-Aelders, Dutch adventurer/spy, dies at 55 1780 Death John Andre, hanged as a British spy at 29 1776 Death Nathan Hale, U.S. captain/patriot/spy, hanged by British at 21 1776 Event Nathan Hale leaves Harlem Heights Camp (127th St) for spy mission 1776 Event George Washington asks for a spy volunteer, Nathan Hale volunteers 1728 Birthday Charles G Chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont, French spy/transvestite
