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Robert Lee Johnson (1922 – May 18, 1972) was an American sergeant who spied for the Soviet Union . Johnson volunteered to spy for the KGB while he was stationed at Berlin, Germany. He also recruited a former Army friend, James Mintkenbaugh. Johnson worked for the KGB between 1953 and 1964, and passed on information while stationed at various ...
The drunken man being shuttled out of East Berlin in a Soviet car was Robert Lee Johnson, a 31-year-old sergeant in the United States Army. Most competent intelligence services would have considered the Army clerk useless, dismissing him as an embittered bureaucrat with a grossly inflated sense of self-worth. Nine years later he would, through ...
Jul 21, 1985 · A telephone call to investigators in 1964 from the wife of Army Sgt. Robert Lee Johnson ended one of the nation's strangest spy rings. In 1953, Johnson, stationed in Berlin, was angry that he hadn ...
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Robert Lee Johnson (1922 - May 18, 1972) was an American sergeant who spied for the Soviet Union.
Johnson volunteered to spy for the KGB while he was stationed at Berlin, Germany. He also recruited a former Army friend, James Mintkenbaugh. Johnson worked for the KGB between 1953 and 1964, and passed on information while stationed at various sites in Europe and the U.S.
Most famously, when working in the U.S. courier center at Orly Airport south of Paris, he occasionally had night duty alone in the center, where dispatches arrive to and from Air Force and Army bases in Europe. He used to come out of the center and hand KGB contacts envelopes full of documents to photocopy. They had a car waiting and sped to the Soviet embassy, photographed the documents, replaced them, and resealed the envelopes so there was no trace that they had been opened. Then they rushed them back to Orly to get them to Johnson before he went off duty in the morning.[1][2]
In 1964, Johnson was turned in by his wife and, like Mintkenbaugh, received a 25-year prison sentence in 1965.[3]
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robertjohnsonbluesfoundation .org. Robert Leroy Johnson (May 8, 1911 – August 16, 1938) was an American blues musician and songwriter. His landmark recordings in 1936 and 1937 display a combination of singing, guitar skills, and songwriting talent that has influenced later generations of musicians.
- Robert Leroy Johnson
- August 16, 1938 (aged 27), Greenwood, Mississippi
- May 8, 1911, Hazlehurst, Mississippi, U.S.
- Delta blues
A federal grand Jury in Richmond, Va.. will consider the charges against Sgt. Robert Lee Johnson, 43, a Pentagon courier, and James Allen Mintkenbaugh, 46, a former Army sergeant. If convicted, the two men face a maximum penalty of death.
Jun 1, 2021 · “The difference between Compton in 1959 and in 1969 is almost like night and day,” says Robert Lee Johnson, a local historian. When the city elected Douglas Dollarhide, its first Black mayor ...
