List of American spies
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This is a list of spies who engaged in direct espionage. It includes Americans spying against their own country and people spying on behalf of the United States.
American Revolution era spies[]
Spied for the Patriots[]
- Hercules Mulligan
- Abraham Woodhull
- Benjamin Edes
- Nathan Hale
- Benjamin Tallmadge
- Caleb Brewster
- (Captain)[1]
- Clément Gosselin
- Daniel Bissell
- David Henley
- Enoch Crosby
- Ethan Allen
- Henry K. Van Rensselaer
- John Brown of Pittsfield
- John Champe
- John Clark
- John Honeyman
- John Laurens
- Jonathan L. Austin
- Lydia Darrah
- Paul Revere
- Philip Mazzei
- Pierre Ayotte
- Silas Deane
- Van Rensselaer's Regiment
- William Bingham[2]
Culper Ring[]
Spied for the Crown[]
Double agents[]
American Civil War era spies[]
Union spies[]
Confederate spies[]
- Alexander Keith, Jr.
- [3]
- Antonia Ford
- Belle Boyd
- Confederate Signal Bureau
- David Owen Dodd
- [4]
- Henry Thomas Harrison
- James Dunwoody Bulloch
- John Yates Beall
- Richard Thomas (Zarvona)
- Rose O'Neal Greenhow
- [5][6]
- Thomas A. Jones
- [7]
- Thomas Jordan
- Virginia Bethel Moon
- William Bryant
- William Norris
American World War One era spies[]
- Julius Klein
- Marguerite Harrison
- Sylvanus Morley
- Sidney Mashbir
American World War Two era spies[]
- Arthur Goldberg[8]
- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.[8]
- Claire Phillips
- Eric Erickson
- Frederick Mayer
- Fritz Kolbe
- Virginia Hall
- Joan Bondurant
- John Birch
- Martin Quigley, Jr.
- Moe Berg[8]
- Rene Joyeuse[9]
- Richard Sakakida
- Sidney Mashbir
- Sterling Hayden[8]
- William G. Sebold
- Harold Ware
American Cold War era spies[]
Spied for America[]
- Aleksandr Dmitrievich Ogorodnik
- Arkady Shevchenko
- Boris Morros
- Boris Yuzhin
- Francis Gary Powers
- Gerry Droller
- Heinz Barwich
- John Birch
- Miles Copeland, Jr.
- Milton Bearden
- Nicholas Shadrin
- Otto von Bolschwing
- Peter Burke, 1979 secretary in the US embassy in Poland
- Philip Agee
- Robert Baer
- Ruth Fischer
- Yosef Amit
- Yuri Nosenko
- Oleg Penkovsky
- Vitaly Yurchenko
- Dmitri Polyakov
- Oleg Gordievsky
- Adolf Tolkachev
Spied for USSR[]
- Agnes Smedley
- Al Sarant
- Alan Nunn May
- Aldrich Ames
- Alexander Koral
- Alexander Ulanovsky
- Alfred Tilton
- Allan Robert Rosenberg
- Anatole Volkov
- Anatoly Gorsky
- Arthur Adams
- Arvid Jacobson
- Bela Gold
- Bill Weisband
- Boris Morros
- Charles Kramer
- David Greenglass
- Donald Niven Wheeler
- Donald Heathfield[10]
- Earl Browder
- Elizabeth Zarubina
- Frank Coe
- George Koval
- George Mink (alias Minkoff)
- George Silverman
- Harold Glasser
- Harry Dexter White
- Harry Gold
- Harry Magdoff
- Hede Massing
- Helen Silvermaster
- Herbert Fuchs
- Irving Kaplan
- Irving Lerner
- Jacob Golos
- Jane Foster Zlatovski
- John Abt
- John Herrmann
- Julian Wadleigh
- Juliet Stuart Poyntz
- Julius Rosenberg
- Klaus Fuchs
- Lauchlin Currie
- Lee Pressman
- Lona Cohen
- Louis F. Budenz
- Martha Dodd Stern
- Morris Cohen
- Morton Sobell
- Nathan Gregory Silvermaster
- Nathan Witt
- Nathaniel Weyl
- Noel Field
- Reino Häyhänen
- Robert Hanssen
- Robert P. Smith
- Saville Sax
- Solomon Adler aka Schlomer Adler
- Sonia Steinman Gold
- Theodore Hall
- Tracey Foley[10]
- Victor Perlo
- Vilyam Genrikhovich Fisher
- Vincent Reno
- Ward Pigman
- Whittaker Chambers
- William Henry Taylor
- William "Lud" Ullman
Spied for Vietnam[]
Spied for Israel[]
- Jonathan Pollard[11][circular reference]
Post-Cold War spies[]
Spied on Iran for America[]
Spied on Russia for America[]
Spied on America for Russia[]
- The Russian 10 from the Illegals Program - included: Richard and Cynthia Murphy, Juan Lazaro, Vicky Peláez and Anna Chapman[14]
Spied on America for China[]
Spied on America for Israel[]
Spied on America for Cuba[]
Spied on Cuba for America[]
American Gulf War era spies[]
Americans who spied for foreign countries[]
CIA[]
- Aldrich Ames
- David Henry Barnett
- Harold James Nicholson
- Larry Wu-Tai Chin
- Sharon M. Scranage
- William Kampiles
NSA[]
FBI[]
Defense Intelligence Agency[]
Armed Forces[]
- Clayton John Lonetree
- John Anthony Walker
- Morris Cohen
- George Trofimoff
- Clyde Lee Conrad
- Peter Debbins
- Monica Witt
Federal contractors[]
References[]
- ^ Fitzpatrick, John C. The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources 1745-1799 Volume 12 June 1, 1778-September 30, 1778. p. 182. ISBN 162376422X.
- ^ Franklin Ben; and Morris, Robert (1776-07-08). "The Committee of Secret Correspondence to [Silas Deane]". "Philadelphia, July 8th, 1776." "Reprinted from The North American and United States Gazette (Philadelphia), October 12, 1855." Retrieved from http://franklinpapers.org/franklin/framedVolumes.jsp?vol=22&page=665a.
- ^ "Anna Elinor Jones Imprisoned on Confederate Spy Accusations".
- ^ Confederate Veteran, Volume 24. S.A. Cunningham, 1916. p. 328.
- ^ Swanson, James L., Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer. New York, HarperCollins, 2006, pp.167, 256.
- ^ Tonia J. Smith. "Sarah Slater". osu.edu.
- ^ Swanson, James L., Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer. New York, HarperCollins, 2006, p. 258f.
- ^ a b c d Cochran, John (14 August 2008). "Julia Child Dished Out ... Spy Secrets?". abcnews.go.com.
- ^ "Swiss-born WWII hero to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery". nydailynews.com. March 11, 2013.
- ^ a b "The day we discovered our parents were Russian spies". 7 May 2016 – via The Guardian.
- ^ Jonathan Pollard
- ^ 4spiritoftruthsays (7 June 2012). "Russian colonel was 'most successful CIA spy' in recent years". intelnews.org.
- ^ "Russian colonel convicted of spying for U.S." cbsnews.com.
- ^ "FBI: 10 Russian Spies Arrested in U.S." cbsnews.com.
- ^ "Ana Montes: Cuban Spy". Federal Bureau of Investigation. Retrieved 2016-12-05.
Further reading[]
- Mashbir, Colonel Sidney (2019). I Was an American Spy - 65th Anniversary Edition. California: Horizon Productions. pp. This autobiography is like a course in military intelligence. ISBN 978-0-9903349-9-6.
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