Espionage
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Espionage, spying, or intelligence gathering, as a subfield of the intelligence field, is the act of obtaining secret, confidential, or in some way valuable information. Such information is also refer
Painting of French spy captured during the Franco-Prussian War by Alphonse de Neuville, 1880
Life imprisonment
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Life imprisonment is any sentence of imprisonment in which the convicted individual will remain incarcerated for the rest of their natural life, with or without the possibility of release. Crimes that
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…rather than execution. For example, Aldrich Hazen Ames was an American CIA analyst, turned KGB mole, who was convicted of espionage in 1994; he served a life sentence without the possibility of parole in the high-security Allenwood U.S. Penitentiary, before dying in 2026. Ames was formerly a 31-year CIA counterintelligence…
Mugshot of Burton Phillips, sentenced to life imprisonment for bank robbery, 1935