James Wilkinson, the head (Senior Officer, now called “Commanding General”) of the United States Army was for most of his professional career **a spy for the Spanish Empire**. He is the highest ranking confirmed traitor in American military history.
He would later be instrumental in Aaron Burr’s arrest for treason, having doctored a letter allegedly from Burr to make it look like Burr was guilty of a plot to separate the American western frontier from the United States: a plot Wilkinson himself pitched to Spain in the 1790’s but they declined to fund it.
He would later be instrumental in Aaron Burr’s arrest for treason, having doctored a letter allegedly from Burr to make it look like Burr was guilty of a plot to separate the American western frontier from the United States: a plot Wilkinson himself pitched to Spain in the 1790’s but they declined to fund it.