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Konrad Adenauer First chancellor of West Germany; 1949-1963; proponent of NATO and relationships with the West;
Salvador Allende First socialist president of Chile; elected to Chilean senate 4 times; tried to support the poor, economy went downhill; died by suicide during a coup in 1973;
Aldrich Ames head of CIA Soviet counterintelligence; double agent for USSR; Known to KGB as Kolokol, the bell; sentenced to life without parole in 1994; called the most damaging mole in U.S. history;
Yuri Andropov Elected general secretary of Communist party in 1982; previously an ambassador and head of KGB; died 1984
Jacabo Arbenz President of Guatemala 1951-1954; alienated conservatives and the US government; tried to expropriate land of United Fruit Company and increase tax rates; drowned in bath in 1970
Bernard Baruch 1870-1965; American financier and adviser to several presidents, including Roosevelt and Wilson
Lavrenti Beria 1899-1953; cruelest leader of secret police force, NKVD; head of Soviet atomic bomb program; executed out of fear by other communists after death of Stalin;
Ernest Bevin 1881-1951; British unionist; British Minister of Labor and National Service; Clement Atlee's foreign secretary;
George Blake 1922-2020; British double agent; convicted for spying in 1961; escaped Wormwood Scrubs prison in 1966;
Willy Brandt 1913-1992; Head of Social Democratic Party of Germany, 1964-1987; Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1969-1974; Winner of 1971 Nobel Peace Prize for efforts at reconcilliation between West Germany and the Soviet countries
Leonid Brezhnev 1906-1982; First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1964-1982; brought a period of relative stability to the USSR;
Carlos Castillo Armas 1914-1957; president of Guatemala after Arbenz; election arranged by the U.S. ;
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