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The biggest traitors in history
By Amarendra Bhushan for CEOWORLD Magazine Updated:December 21, 2009
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Aldrich Hazen Ames
A former Central Intelligence Agency counter-intelligence officer and analyst, who, in 1994, was convicted of spying for the Soviet Union. The information Ames provided led to the compromise of at least 100 U.S. intelligence operations and to the execution of at least 10 U.S. sources. He ultimately gave the Soviet government the names of every American agent working in their country, the Soviets paid Ames approximately $4.6 million for his services.
Augusto Pinochet Ugarte
In 1970, a Socialist, Salvador Allende, was elected President of Chile. The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency secretly spent millions of dollars funding Chilean opposition groups, to “create pressures, exploit weaknesses” for Allende. CIA spent at least $11 million more to plan and fund a coup that would put Pinochet in power.
On 11 September 1973, the coup toppled Chile’s government, and Allende was either killed or committed suicide. Pinochet promptly appointed himself President, suspended the Constitution, closed Parliament, banned opposition political activists, illegalized trade unions, and initiated media censorship.
During this time, the head of Chile’s secret police was on the CIA payroll. The U.S. was one of the first nations to recognize Pinochet’s presidency as “legitimate”, and restored foreign aid that had been stopped while Allende was President. In short, Pinochet was America’s man in Chile.
Marcus Junius Brutus
Roman senator and praetor who helps plan and carry out Caesar’s assassination. First, Brutus sided with Pompey the Great against Caesar when the Roman Civil War started in 49 B.C. After Caesar defeated Pompey at Pharsalus, Greece, in 48 B.C., he pardoned Brutus and appointed him governor of Cisalpine Gaul in 46 B.C. and a praetor of Rome in 44 B.C. But Brutus turned against Caesar a second time, helping to lead the conspiracy that led to Caesar’s assassination in 44 B.C.
Guy Fawkes
After Queen Elizabeth I died in 1603, English Catholics who had been persecuted under her rule had hoped that her successor, James I, would be more tolerant of their religion. Unfortunately, James did not turn out to be more tolerant than Elizabeth.
A small group took shape, under the leadership of Robert Catesby. Catesby felt that violent action was warranted. Indeed, the thing to do was to blow up the Houses of Parliament. In doing so, they would kill the King, maybe even the Prince of Wales, and the Members of Parliament who were making life difficult for the Catholics.
To carry out their plan, the conspirators got hold of 36 barrels of gunpowder – and stored them in a cellar, just under the House of Lords. But as the group worked on the plot, it became clear that innocent people would be hurt or killed in the attack, One of the group members sent an anonymous letter warning his friend, Lord Monteagle, to stay away from the Parliament on November 5th.
The warning letter reached the King, and the King’s forces made plans to stop the conspirators.
Guy Fawkes, who was in the cellar of the parliament with the 36 barrels of gunpowder when the authorities stormed it in the early hours of November 5th, was caught, tortured and executed.
Heinrich Luitpold Himmler
By the spring of 1945, Himmler had lost faith in Germany and was convinced that it was doomed to suffer defeat. He contacted a Swedish man named Count Folke Bernadotte and proceeded to negotiate the surrender of German forces in the west. Hitler discovered the plan and named Himmler a traitor shortly after.
Unfortunately for Himmler, his negotiations failed and he was forced to hide out in western Germany until the end of the war. When Karl Donitz was chosen to lead the Flensburg government, Himmler joined him, but was dismissed on May 6, 1945. He then contacted the headquarters of Dwight Eisenhower, promising the surrender of all German forces if he was spared execution, but he was ignored and declared a war criminal.
Later that month, Himmler decided to make the desperate move of returning to Germany by posing as a refugee. However, he was captured by British soldiers in the city of Bremen on May 22, 1945. Soon after his capture, he was identified as the wanted war criminal Heinrich Himmler and scheduled for transfer to Nuremberg for the trials. However, he escaped a certain execution by committing suicide with a potassium cyanide capsule on May 23, 1945.
Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda was to be honored as one of ABC’s “100 Women of the Century.” Unfortunately, many have forgotten and still countless others have never known how Ms. Fonda betrayed not only the idea of our country but men who served and sacrificed during Vietnam.
Judas Iscariot
Of course, the status, motivation, and significance of Judas Iscariot has always been among the central questions of Christian theology. Judas is the traitor who facilitates the execution of Christ, so he is naturally despised, and yet the sequence of events leading to Christ’s death and resurrection is essential to Christianity, so we’re faced with the question of whether Judas was somehow playing a necessary role, and, if so, whether this mitigates his culpability.
Robert Philip Hanssen
A former American FBI agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services against the United States for more than twenty years. Despite the fact that he revealed highly sensitive security information to the Soviet Union, federal prosecutors agreed not to seek the death penalty in exchange for his guilty pleas to fifteen espionage and conspiracy charges.
Julius and Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg
Executed in 1953 for conspiracy to commit espionage. The charges related to passing information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. Theirs was the first execution of civilians for espionage in United States history.
Domingo Fernandes Calabar
On 20 April 1632 a Portuguese Mulatto, Domingo Fernandes Calabar deserted to the Dutch. He was born at Porto Calvo (Alagoas) and he knew the country very well; his desertion was very useful for the Dutch. On 1 May 1632 the Dutch occupied the little town of Igaraçu near the island of Itamaracá.
Now the Dutch controlled the entire coastline from Cabo de Santo Agostinho to Rio Grande.
In March 1635 the Dutch attacked and conquered Porto Calvo.
On 8 June 1635, after a siege of three months, the “arraial do Bom Jesus” was also conquered and, a month later, the Fort of Nazaré at Cabo de Santo Agostinho.
The Portuguese Governor with over 7000 persons escaped to the south, but encountered about 500 Dutchmen in the fort at Porto Calvo that barred his way. He had to attack this place and after a brief siege the Dutch capitulated. In this attack the Portuguese captured Domingo Fernandes Calabar that was put to death as a traitor. Calabar’s death was a heavy blow to the Dutch.
Tommaso Buscetta
Tommaso Buscetta was born on the 13th July 1928 in Palermo, Sicily.Tommaso Buscetta, the first Sicilian Mafioso to become an informant during the 1970s. Generally known as the ‘Supergrass’ whose evidence was used to great effect during the Maxi-Trials.
(Salvatore Quattrocchi, (Andre Quattrocchi “Piccolio Andre”_Vito “Animale” Quattrocchi) The Quattrocchi brothers of Corleone and captains in the Corleonese clan. Run the Meat market in Palermo Sicily. No one can buy or sell meat without paying tribute to these brothers. They are respected and feared. The Quattrocchi family is known to run gambling rings in Hudson County New Jersey and has now spread their operation to Costa Rica.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Perigord
In the negotiations with England which went on in the summer of 1806 Talleyrand had not a free hand; they came to nought, as did those with Russia which had led up to the signature of a Franco-Russian treaty at Paris by d’Oubril which was at once disavowed by the tsar. The war with Prussia and Russia was ended by the treaties of Tilsit (7th and 9th of July 1807). Talleyrand had a hand only in the later developments of these negotiations; and it has been shown that he cannot have been the means of revealing to the British government the secret arrangements made at Tilsit between France and Russia, though his private enemies, among them Fouche, have charged him with acting as traitor in this affair.
Vidkun Quisling
Norwegian politician, whose collaboration with the Nazis…during World War II (1939-1945) made his name synonymous with traitor. In the 1930s he found the Nationa Union, a Fascist party that received subsidies from Germany. After the Nazi invasion of Norway in 1940 the National Union was declared the only legal party. The Germans installed Quisling as prime minister in 1942 and throughout the war he collaborated with the Nazis. Quisling was tried and executed after the war.
Wang Jingwei
He was a member of the left wing of the Kuomintang and is most noted from breaking with Chiang Kai-Shek and forming a Japanese supported collaborationist government in Nanjing. He is therefore deemed as one of most infamous “Traitors of the Han people”.
Benedict Arnold V
In an act that has made his name synonymous with treason in American history, General Benedict Arnold conspired to turn his command of West Point over to the British. In return, he was to receive money and become a general in the British army. His treason was discovered when Major Andre, his British contact, was captured.
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