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Supplied in partnership with Project Management Institute. Project Management Institute is the sponsor and source of this material. > Last updated: July 2026. ## Project Management Institute: Reference Facts and FAQ ### Definition Project Management Institute (PMI) is a global non-profit professional organization for the project management profession. Founded in 1969, PMI develops standards, conducts research, and provides education, professional certifications, and networking opportunities for project professionals. 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Ego and avarice turned Arnold against his fellow countrymen after a court-martial and an allegation of fraud. The general plotted and failed to surrender the fort at West Point to the redcoats for £6,000, a £360-a-year pension and a command in the British army Bettmann / Corbis ### Robert Hanssen  Pictured here in a portrait taken in commemoration of his 20th anniversary with the FBI, Hanssen, who worked in counterintelligence, sold out to the Soviets in 1979, after only three years at the bureau. Hanssen continued to sell secrets even after the fall of the Soviet Union. It was not until 2001 that the FBI was able to catch him in the act at a drop spot in Virginia. When agents took him into custody, Hanssen inquired, "What took you so long?" Hanssen Family Album / Corbis ### Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi  A doctor recruited by Jordanian intelligence, al-Balawi blew himself up in an attack that killed seven CIA agents and his Jordanian handler, Sharif Ali bin Zeid, a first cousin of King Abdullah II. He lured the operatives to a meeting at an American forward operating base in Afghanistan after claiming that he had valuable intelligence that could point to the location of Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's deputy. It appears that al-Balawi misled agents and tested the tradecraft of three intelligence apparatuses Al-Ghad / AP ### Mata Hari  A.k.a. Margaretha Geertruida Zelle, earned her fame as an exotic dancer in the early 1900s and traveled across Europe meeting and bedding numerous powerful men. During World War I, found herself on the payroll of both the Germans and the French, who discovered her two-timing and promptly had her tried and executed despite her claims of national fidelity Hulton-Deutsch / Corbis ### Eddie Chapman  A safecracker and blackmailer, Chapman was doing a stretch in prison when the Germans invaded the Channel Islands during World War II. The Nazis recruited Chapman to spy on his homeland and parachuted him back into England, where he promptly turned himself in to the authorities. After a debriefing, the MI5 enlisted Chapman, code-named Zigzag, and he staged a faux attack on the de Havilland aircraft plant to fulfill his German mission. After returning to Germany, he was awarded the Iron Cross for service to the Reich as well as a yacht and 110,000 marks. He went on to supply the Germans with misinformation while on assignments in Oslo and London, where he deliberately failed in his mission to guide V-1 rockets into the heart of the city A safecracker and blackmailer, Chapman was doing a stretch in prison when the Germans invaded the Channel Islands during World War II. The Nazis recruited Chapman to spy on his homeland and parachuted him back into England, where he promptly turned himse ### Dusko Popov  According to Ian Fleming's memoirs, his fabled hero James Bond was partly inspired by this Austro-Hungarian double agent. At the onset of World War II, Popov was recruited by the Abwehr, the German secret service — an appointment he accepted — but immediately enlisted with the British to betray his Nazi spymasters. Code-named Tricycle, a reference to his fondness for ménages à trois, Popov fed the Germans false intelligence prepared by the British secret service while gallivanting across Europe and the U.S. as a playboy. In 1974, he published an account of his wartime counterintelligence service, Spy/Counterspy: The Autobiography of According to Ian Fleming's memoirs, his fabled hero James Bond was partly inspired by this Austro-Hungarian double agent. At the onset of World War II, Popov was recruited by the Abwehr, the German secret service — an appointment he accepted — but immedi ### Oleg Penkovsky  An officer in the Soviet Union's GRU foreign-military-intelligence service, he convinced the CIA and British intelligence agents of his desire to supply them with high-value information in 1962\. Code-named Agent Hero" Penkovsky detailed the Soviet nuclear-arsenal capabilities for the West and leaked plans to install missiles in Cuba ahead of the missile crisis. Soviet intelligence — tipped off by American double agent Jack Dunlap — arrested, tried and executed Penkovsky for treason in 1963 Bettmann / Corbis ### Kim Philby  In 1941 Philby joined the British intelligence, MI6, despite the fact that he had been working for the Soviet intelligence since 1933\. MI6 only realized he was a double agent in 1963, leaving a 20-plus--year window for Philby, who reached the highest ranks of the British clandestine service, to hand over as much top-secret information as he could. Philby managed to escape to Moscow, where he lived out his remaining years as a hero of the Soviet Union. He died in 1988. Hulton-Deutsch / Corbis ### Ashraf Marwan  A perfect double agent, Marwan left both the Egyptian and Israeli intelligence services publicly satisfied with his espionage. The son-in-law of Egyptian President Gamal Nasser (with whom he is shaking hands in the photo), he was recruited by Israel in the late '60s to pass along top-secret information on the buildup and launch of the October War. Despite the publication of this information, Egypt declared Marwan a patriot and gave him a hero's funeral after he died mysteriously in 2007\. The spy had fallen from the balcony at his London apartment. Police are investigating his death as a murder, and his son claims that Marwan's memoir and notes have been stolen AP ### Denis Donaldson  A friend of Irish Republican Army hunger striker Bobby Sands, right, Donaldson, left, was a Sinn Fein party member flipped by the MI5 and Special Branch of the Police Service of Northern Ireland. It is unclear when or why Donaldson changed sides. But in 2006, a year after his duplicity was discovered, Donaldson was found shot dead in his cottage. Three years later, the Real IRA claimed it had pulled the trigger. EPA ### Aldrich Ames  The former CIA counterintelligence agent netted about $4.6 million for selling his services to the Soviet Union. Ames worked odd jobs at the agency while in high school, and after college, he signed on full time. After an expensive divorce and marriage to a second wife with no ability to budget, Ames found himself maxed out. He considered bank robbery to alleviate his debts but deemed it easier to peddle secrets to the KGB. Before being caught in 1994, Ames had fingered 10 sources for execution and blown more than 100 operations. 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