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Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán (1913–1971): Guatemalan president, 1950–54.

Clement R. Attlee (1883–1967): British prime minister, 1945–51.

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Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar (1901–1973): Cuban dictatorial leader, 1933–44, 1952–59.

Lavrenty Beria (1899–1953): Leader of the Soviet secret police (KGB) and manager of the Soviet bomb project.

Anthony F. Blunt (1907–1983): One of the KGB's famed Cambridge Spies.

Willy Brandt (1913–1992): West German chancellor, 1969–74.

Leonid Brezhnev (1906–1982): Leader of the Soviet Union Communist Party, 1964–82.

Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928–): U.S. national security advisor, 1977–81.

Guy Burgess (1910–1963): One of the KGB's famed Cambridge Spies.

George Bush (1924–): Forty-first U.S. president, 1989–93.

James F. Byrnes...