a tube route a welcome to watchmojo.com
and today we’re counting down our picks
for the top ten traders in history what
happened not sure the Vilnius head of
the birthday don’t despair
they have not done yet for this list
we’re taking a look at the most
notorious defectors turncoats and double
agents from biblical times to modern
times when did you last read 1984
actually quite some time ago number 10
Joe Lieberman mr. president my fourth
and final term as a United States
Senator will soon come to an end as I
many emotions we added the applause
because there’s almost no one in the
room hailing from Stamford Connecticut
this Yale graduate served as State
Attorney General from 1983 to 89 and as
a senator for almost a quarter century
in 2000 he even ran as the nominee for
vice president on the 2000 Democratic
ticket with Al Gore well I’ll tell you
what I’m here to support John McCain
because country matters more than party
so when the staunchly Democratic
Lieberman publicly supported Republican
John McCain in the 2008 presidential
election heads snapped in amazement my
opponent had a pickup truck which went
around followed me everywhere in
Connecticut that year which had two
replicas one of President Bush and one
of me and we were embracing each other
and that was just supposed to be enough
Lieberman angered many in his party with
his criticism of Democratic candidate
Obama’s experience and leadership and
his support of McCain’s view of the war
on terror if you let a dictator mass
murder his people and you turn away from
it he’s going to keep going
Lieberman even went so far as to raise
questions about Obama’s loyalty to the
country leading some to
him a traitor to his party which party
do you feel closer to today well I
actually am most comfortable as an
independent and I think I’m probably
reflective of maybe not a majority of
people in the country but a plurality
anyway number nine benito mussolini
at ellora becoming party italia prior to
1914 this italian political journalist
was one of the most prominent members of
the Italian Socialist Party however in
1914 at the outset of World War one he
publicly denounced socialism turned his
back on the working-class and introduced
the fascist movement in Italy in 1922 in
the midst of protests in his country
King Victor Emmanuel the third handed
power over to Mussolini in an effort to
avoid civil war now Prime Minister it
wasn’t long before Mussolini transformed
the government into a dictatorship ldj
or the leader as he was called became
known for his tyranny and for his
support of the Nazi regime in Germany
number 8 Aldrich Ames they’re mounted
really to kind of greed and folly simple
as that until the mid 1980s heavy
drinking extramarital affairs and
usually mediocre performance at work
were the most serious transgressions of
this former counterintelligence officer
and analyst but between 1985 and his
arrest in 1994 he earned over 4.5
million dollars by releasing sensitive
counterintelligence information to
Russia and the Soviet Union that allowed
him to buy a half million dollar home
cash drive a Jaguar dress in $1,500
Italian suits and that this new
affluence just happened to coincide with
the loss of America’s most valuable
spies inside the Soviet Union Ames
information exchange included the names
of practically every American spy in
operation against them it is impossible
to overestimate the amount of the of the
damage or the consequences or our own
his treasonous actions compromised more
than 100 intelligence operations and
contributed to the deaths of at least 10
American agents he’s currently serving a
life sentence without the possibility of
parole
what I did to those men the situation of
their families and and theirs and this
is and this is any kind of shame and the
kind of remorse that I feel is something
that is and I think always will be
intensely personal number seven
launching way today he is viewed by some
as the most destructive trader in
China’s history originally a politician
and a member of the leftist Kuomintang
party he began to repeal his support
after he failed to secure leadership of
the party following the death of Sun
yat-sen when a bloody war between China
and Japan finally erupted in 1937 Wang
backed Japan’s plans for an armistice
and quickly switched sides to ally with
the Japanese he went on to become the
puppet leader of the government the
China had set up in Nanjing eastern
China number six Mata Hari
Madame Mata Hari car please a sultry
exotic dancer and escort of Frisian
descent mata Hari won fame for her
flirtatious and flamboyant lifestyle and
performances during the 1900s
she was physically outstanding from
childhood
one of her friends once called her an
orchid in a field of dandelions and I
think that’s a remarkably apt
description of what she must have looked
like because of her celebrity status and
her Dutch ancestry she was able to cross
national borders without much trouble
though she eventually came under
suspicion and with good reason it was
later revealed that in 1915 she became a
prolific German agent known by the
codename age 21 according to some
estimates her reports to the Germans
caused the deaths of some 50,000
soldiers and in 1917 she was executed by
a French firing squad
number five Guy Fawkes I know his name
was Guy Fawkes and I know in 1605 he
attempted to blow up the houses
apartment but who was he reading born in
York and raised in Anglican Fox
converted to Catholicism relatively
early in life and developed anti
Protestant sympathies it wasn’t long
before he found a like-minded group of
conspirators looking to assassinate King
James the first and restore Catholicism
as the religion of the land he became a
key figure in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605
which sought to blow up English
Parliament Fox was charged with
safeguarding the explosives which had
been amassed in the cellar beneath the
House of Lords however he was captured
and tortured eventually dying on January
31st the following year every November
fifth England celebrates Guy Fawkes Day
with a bonfire and a burning in effigy
of the notorious traitor number four
Vidkun Quisling
a Norwegian politician who rose from
being a successful military man to
becoming the Minister of Defence
fishlegs Power had all but faded by the
time the Nazis invaded Norway in 1940 as
a strong admirer of Adolf Hitler and
fascism he met with the German dictator
to betray information about Norwegian
military strategy then as the occupation
of Norway took place fish lling
overthrew the government with Nazi
backing and established himself as the
minister president in 1945 the Nazi
supporter was charged with embezzlement
murder and high treason and was
subsequently executed lies until the
moment of death Vidkun Quisling remained
convinced he had done nothing wrong
but the truth was different in fact he
was almost driven mad by his own
contradictions number three Benedict
Arnold
during the American Revolutionary War
Arnold established himself as a soldier
of intellect and courage so much so that
he was promoted to the rank of general
for the Americans
however discontent with his status in
the military and with the political
decisions of the u.s. he began
negotiating secretly with the British
and decided that he would turn over the
fort at West Point that was under his
command to British troops the plot was
discovered and foiled and Arnold
narrowly escaped arrest publicly
switching loyalty he continued to fight
against the Americans during the rest of
the war but Washington went along with
the verdict and he was hanged he
struggled briefly
dangling and it was dead number two
Marcus unius Brutus the younger this
senator in the ancient Roman Republic
was one of only three people in Dante’s
epic poem Inferno
considered so evil that he was to be
chewed in the mouth of Satan in the
center of Hell forever
Brutus initially Ward against the Roman
general and consul Julius Caesar however
he was pardoned and later appointed as
praetor and governor of Gaul by the man
who came to be his friend
fearing Caesars rise to power he joined
several other conspirators who shared
his concerns in one of the most famous
betrayals in history they stabbed the
dictator to death in the Senate on the
Ides of March in 44 BC loved me I weep
for him as he was fortunate I rejoice at
it as he was valiant I honor him but as
he was ambitious I slew him before we
unveil our top pick here are a few
honorable or in this case dishonorable
mentions Hanson on average received
$30,000 per year for betraying one’s
country for selling secrets worth
billions of dollars from putting his own
life at risk
chump change 12:42 p.m. the bunker
explodes with a tremendous roar It was
as if stomping burg said later a 155
millimeter shell that hit it directly
softened berg is certain that no one
will survive the explosion the full
story of the cambridge 5 may never be
known what is known is that the
Cambridge 5 will go down in history as
one of the greatest spy rings of the
20th century this man has been called
the most valuable KGB spy in history but
damage he caused the United States is so
great that experts on Soviet
intelligence
war had broken out in the 1970s the
Kremlin would have warned number one
Judas Iscariot Dante considered him
history’s most notorious traitor
choosing to ensnare him in the jaws of
Satan central head in the inferno his
scariet was one of Jesus of Nazareth’s
12 apostles confidants with a special
relationship to the charismatic
religious figure
despite the bond of trust that existed
between Jesus and the apostles Judas
collaborated with those whom considered
Jesus dangerous identifying him with a
kiss and leading to his subsequent
execution by direct order of the Roman
prefect Pontius Pilate to this day the
name Judas is synonymous with the idea
of a traitor in popular culture
I got you
and all apparently for 30 pieces of
silver that’s coming soft fat I don’t
know do you agree with our list which
historical traders do you think deserve
the most notoriety and that it acts like
yeah yeah I am going to betray the
United States for more informative top
10s published every day be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com to be a
Quisling is to be a Judas
and today we’re counting down our picks
for the top ten traders in history what
happened not sure the Vilnius head of
the birthday don’t despair
they have not done yet for this list
we’re taking a look at the most
notorious defectors turncoats and double
agents from biblical times to modern
times when did you last read 1984
actually quite some time ago number 10
Joe Lieberman mr. president my fourth
and final term as a United States
Senator will soon come to an end as I
many emotions we added the applause
because there’s almost no one in the
room hailing from Stamford Connecticut
this Yale graduate served as State
Attorney General from 1983 to 89 and as
a senator for almost a quarter century
in 2000 he even ran as the nominee for
vice president on the 2000 Democratic
ticket with Al Gore well I’ll tell you
what I’m here to support John McCain
because country matters more than party
so when the staunchly Democratic
Lieberman publicly supported Republican
John McCain in the 2008 presidential
election heads snapped in amazement my
opponent had a pickup truck which went
around followed me everywhere in
Connecticut that year which had two
replicas one of President Bush and one
of me and we were embracing each other
and that was just supposed to be enough
Lieberman angered many in his party with
his criticism of Democratic candidate
Obama’s experience and leadership and
his support of McCain’s view of the war
on terror if you let a dictator mass
murder his people and you turn away from
it he’s going to keep going
Lieberman even went so far as to raise
questions about Obama’s loyalty to the
country leading some to
him a traitor to his party which party
do you feel closer to today well I
actually am most comfortable as an
independent and I think I’m probably
reflective of maybe not a majority of
people in the country but a plurality
anyway number nine benito mussolini
at ellora becoming party italia prior to
1914 this italian political journalist
was one of the most prominent members of
the Italian Socialist Party however in
1914 at the outset of World War one he
publicly denounced socialism turned his
back on the working-class and introduced
the fascist movement in Italy in 1922 in
the midst of protests in his country
King Victor Emmanuel the third handed
power over to Mussolini in an effort to
avoid civil war now Prime Minister it
wasn’t long before Mussolini transformed
the government into a dictatorship ldj
or the leader as he was called became
known for his tyranny and for his
support of the Nazi regime in Germany
number 8 Aldrich Ames they’re mounted
really to kind of greed and folly simple
as that until the mid 1980s heavy
drinking extramarital affairs and
usually mediocre performance at work
were the most serious transgressions of
this former counterintelligence officer
and analyst but between 1985 and his
arrest in 1994 he earned over 4.5
million dollars by releasing sensitive
counterintelligence information to
Russia and the Soviet Union that allowed
him to buy a half million dollar home
cash drive a Jaguar dress in $1,500
Italian suits and that this new
affluence just happened to coincide with
the loss of America’s most valuable
spies inside the Soviet Union Ames
information exchange included the names
of practically every American spy in
operation against them it is impossible
to overestimate the amount of the of the
damage or the consequences or our own
his treasonous actions compromised more
than 100 intelligence operations and
contributed to the deaths of at least 10
American agents he’s currently serving a
life sentence without the possibility of
parole
what I did to those men the situation of
their families and and theirs and this
is and this is any kind of shame and the
kind of remorse that I feel is something
that is and I think always will be
intensely personal number seven
launching way today he is viewed by some
as the most destructive trader in
China’s history originally a politician
and a member of the leftist Kuomintang
party he began to repeal his support
after he failed to secure leadership of
the party following the death of Sun
yat-sen when a bloody war between China
and Japan finally erupted in 1937 Wang
backed Japan’s plans for an armistice
and quickly switched sides to ally with
the Japanese he went on to become the
puppet leader of the government the
China had set up in Nanjing eastern
China number six Mata Hari
Madame Mata Hari car please a sultry
exotic dancer and escort of Frisian
descent mata Hari won fame for her
flirtatious and flamboyant lifestyle and
performances during the 1900s
she was physically outstanding from
childhood
one of her friends once called her an
orchid in a field of dandelions and I
think that’s a remarkably apt
description of what she must have looked
like because of her celebrity status and
her Dutch ancestry she was able to cross
national borders without much trouble
though she eventually came under
suspicion and with good reason it was
later revealed that in 1915 she became a
prolific German agent known by the
codename age 21 according to some
estimates her reports to the Germans
caused the deaths of some 50,000
soldiers and in 1917 she was executed by
a French firing squad
number five Guy Fawkes I know his name
was Guy Fawkes and I know in 1605 he
attempted to blow up the houses
apartment but who was he reading born in
York and raised in Anglican Fox
converted to Catholicism relatively
early in life and developed anti
Protestant sympathies it wasn’t long
before he found a like-minded group of
conspirators looking to assassinate King
James the first and restore Catholicism
as the religion of the land he became a
key figure in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605
which sought to blow up English
Parliament Fox was charged with
safeguarding the explosives which had
been amassed in the cellar beneath the
House of Lords however he was captured
and tortured eventually dying on January
31st the following year every November
fifth England celebrates Guy Fawkes Day
with a bonfire and a burning in effigy
of the notorious traitor number four
Vidkun Quisling
a Norwegian politician who rose from
being a successful military man to
becoming the Minister of Defence
fishlegs Power had all but faded by the
time the Nazis invaded Norway in 1940 as
a strong admirer of Adolf Hitler and
fascism he met with the German dictator
to betray information about Norwegian
military strategy then as the occupation
of Norway took place fish lling
overthrew the government with Nazi
backing and established himself as the
minister president in 1945 the Nazi
supporter was charged with embezzlement
murder and high treason and was
subsequently executed lies until the
moment of death Vidkun Quisling remained
convinced he had done nothing wrong
but the truth was different in fact he
was almost driven mad by his own
contradictions number three Benedict
Arnold
during the American Revolutionary War
Arnold established himself as a soldier
of intellect and courage so much so that
he was promoted to the rank of general
for the Americans
however discontent with his status in
the military and with the political
decisions of the u.s. he began
negotiating secretly with the British
and decided that he would turn over the
fort at West Point that was under his
command to British troops the plot was
discovered and foiled and Arnold
narrowly escaped arrest publicly
switching loyalty he continued to fight
against the Americans during the rest of
the war but Washington went along with
the verdict and he was hanged he
struggled briefly
dangling and it was dead number two
Marcus unius Brutus the younger this
senator in the ancient Roman Republic
was one of only three people in Dante’s
epic poem Inferno
considered so evil that he was to be
chewed in the mouth of Satan in the
center of Hell forever
Brutus initially Ward against the Roman
general and consul Julius Caesar however
he was pardoned and later appointed as
praetor and governor of Gaul by the man
who came to be his friend
fearing Caesars rise to power he joined
several other conspirators who shared
his concerns in one of the most famous
betrayals in history they stabbed the
dictator to death in the Senate on the
Ides of March in 44 BC loved me I weep
for him as he was fortunate I rejoice at
it as he was valiant I honor him but as
he was ambitious I slew him before we
unveil our top pick here are a few
honorable or in this case dishonorable
mentions Hanson on average received
$30,000 per year for betraying one’s
country for selling secrets worth
billions of dollars from putting his own
life at risk
chump change 12:42 p.m. the bunker
explodes with a tremendous roar It was
as if stomping burg said later a 155
millimeter shell that hit it directly
softened berg is certain that no one
will survive the explosion the full
story of the cambridge 5 may never be
known what is known is that the
Cambridge 5 will go down in history as
one of the greatest spy rings of the
20th century this man has been called
the most valuable KGB spy in history but
damage he caused the United States is so
great that experts on Soviet
intelligence
war had broken out in the 1970s the
Kremlin would have warned number one
Judas Iscariot Dante considered him
history’s most notorious traitor
choosing to ensnare him in the jaws of
Satan central head in the inferno his
scariet was one of Jesus of Nazareth’s
12 apostles confidants with a special
relationship to the charismatic
religious figure
despite the bond of trust that existed
between Jesus and the apostles Judas
collaborated with those whom considered
Jesus dangerous identifying him with a
kiss and leading to his subsequent
execution by direct order of the Roman
prefect Pontius Pilate to this day the
name Judas is synonymous with the idea
of a traitor in popular culture
I got you
and all apparently for 30 pieces of
silver that’s coming soft fat I don’t
know do you agree with our list which
historical traders do you think deserve
the most notoriety and that it acts like
yeah yeah I am going to betray the
United States for more informative top
10s published every day be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com to be a
Quisling is to be a Judas
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