Robert Lee Johnson (spy)

Robert Lee Johnson ( * 1922, † May 18, 1972 in Kelly Township, Union County, Pennsylvania) was an American spy.

What Johnson as Sergeant stationed in Berlin when he in 1953 for the first time with the help of his Viennese friend Hedwig Pipek made ​​contact with the Soviet side. Later it belonged to the guards of the courier station in the Paris -Orly Airport and betrayed the secret military documents available there.

He was stabbed to death in prison during a visit by his own son.