# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elizabeth-bentley
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:28:18.296Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elizabeth-bentley"
name: "Elizabeth Bentley"
slug: "elizabeth-bentley"
description: "Elizabeth Terrill Bentley was an American NKVD spymaster, who was recruited from within the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). She served the Soviet Union as the primary handler of multiple highly placed moles within both the United States federal government and the Office of Strategic Services from 1938 to 1945. She defected by contacting the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and debriefing about her espionage activities. Her writings include Out of Bondage: the Story of Elizabeth Bentley."
tagline: "American spy for the USSR (1908–1963)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Elizabeth_Bentley.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1908-01-01"
deathDate: "1963-12-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.54
  momentum:             8.750000000000002
  historical:           9.750804
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AB_%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%84%D9%8A"
    title: "إليزابيث بنتلي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AB_%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "اليزابيث بنتلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Bentley"
    title: "Elizabeth Bentley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Bentley"
    title: "Elizabeth Bentley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Bentley"
    title: "Elizabeth Bentley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Bentley"
    title: "Elizabeth Bentley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%96%D7%91%D7%98_%D7%91%D7%A0%D7%98%D7%9C%D7%99"
    title: "אליזבט בנטלי"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Bentley"
    title: "Elizabeth Bentley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BB%D0%B8%2C_%D0%AD%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%82"
    title: "Бентли, Элизабет"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BC%8A%E4%B8%BD%E8%8E%8E%E7%99%BD%C2%B7%E6%9C%AC%E7%89%B9%E5%88%A9"
    title: "伊丽莎白·本特利"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q537842"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump