List of alleged secret agents

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This is a list of alleged spies by the country for which they are claimed to work. In numerous cases these claims did not result in indictments or convictions, so caution should be used in interpreting or relying on this list. See also the category spies by nationality.

Contents 1 Canada 2 China, People's Republic of 3 Cuba 4 Czechoslovakia (StB) 5 France 6 Germany (BND, MAD, Verfassungsschutz, Abwehr, SD) 7 East Germany (Stasi) excluding 100.000 "IM" 8 Egypt 9 Israel (Mossad) 10 Hungary 11 Poland 12 Romania 13 Russia 14 Soviet Union 14.1 NKVD and KGB 14.1.1 The “Berg” – “Art” Group 14.1.2 Buben group 14.1.3 Cambridge Five 14.1.4 Mocase 14.1.5 Perlo group 14.1.6 Redhead group 14.1.7 Rosenberg ring 14.1.8 Silvermaster group 14.1.9 Sound and Myrna groups 14.1.10 Ware group 14.2 KGB Illegals 14.3 GRU 14.3.1 Karl group 14.3.2 Portland ring 14.3.3 Sorge ring 14.3.4 Others 14.4 GRU Illegals 14.4.1 Naval GRU 15 United Kingdom (MI5/MI6) 16 United States (CIA) 17 Taiwan (Republic of China) 18 Unknown affiliation, to sort 19 References 20 See also

[edit] Canada

• Igor Gouzenko was a cipher clerk at Soviet Embassy in Ottawa. He defected in September, 1945 with Soviet documents on KGB activities in Canada and elsewhere. For some, his defection and revelations represents the start of the Cold War.
• Sir William Stephenson (codenamed Intrepid) Canadian championship boxer and businessman who ran British Security Coordination in NYC from before to near the end of WWII (see British Security Coordination: The Secret History..., NY, Fromm International, 1999: A Man Called Intrepid, 1976, is entertaining but often unreliable)

[edit] China, People's Republic of

• Larry Wu-Tai Chin - Chinese double agent convicted in 1986
• Peter Lee - Physicist working at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Katrina Leung - Chinese double agent accused of supplying 20 years worth of Chinese counter-intelligence misinformation to the FBI
• Gwo-Bao Min - Aeronautical engineer working at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

[edit] Cuba

• Ana Montes
• Carlos and Elsa Alvarez

[edit] Czechoslovakia (StB)

• Alfred Frenzel, infiltrated West Germany during the 1950s
• Karl Koecher, the only known mole to penetrate the CIA
• Erwin Van Haarlem, posed as a Dutch art dealer while spying in Britain

[edit] France

See also category French spies

• Hans Thilo-Schmidt (codename Asche), who supplied information on the German Enigma machine for several years from its first deployment
• Mata Hari, double spy for France and Germany during World War I
• Pierre Martinet

[edit] Germany (BND, MAD, Verfassungsschutz, Abwehr, SD)

• Mata Hari, double spy for France and Germany during World War I
• Elsbeth Schragmüller (de:Elsbeth Schragmüller - alias "Mlle Docteur") ^[1]
• Simon Emil Koedel, sleeper agent for the Abwehr activated during World War II. Operated primarily in New York City.
• Norbert Juretzko, BND agent who published "tell-all" book on BND in 2003, Juretzko caught censors sleeping
• Marie Charles Ferdinand Walsin-Esterhazy aka Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy, French General, the real spy behind the Dreyfus affair 1890, a major commotion in France
• Werner Stiller double agent/defector. Stasi officer working on behalf of the BND.^[2]

[edit] East Germany (Stasi) excluding 100.000 "IM"

• Günter Guillaume, spy for East Germany who caused the resignation of German Chancellor Willy Brandt
• Rainer Rupp, spy for East Germany in NATO HQ, cleared COSMIC TOP SECRET, codename "TOPAZ"
• Markus Wolf, director of the espionage operations of East Germany

[edit] Egypt

• Refaat ElGamal, better known as Raafat ElHagan, was an Egyptian spy in Israel during the sixties. He claimed to be Jack Biton, ostensibly a Jewish-Egyptian businessman who immigrated to Israel and opened a travel agency.

• Gomaa ElShawan was a double-agent who communicated with MOSSAD and reported to the Egyptian Intelligence.

[edit] Israel (Mossad)

• Isser Harel, director and founder
• Nachum Admoni, director
• Ari Ben-Menashe
• Cheryl Hanin Bentov, helped to kidnap Mordechai Vanunu
• Eli Cohen, spy for Israel executed by Syria in 1965
• Wolfgang Lotz, spy for Israel at Egypt
• Nicholas Davies, editor of the Daily Mirror
• Jonathan Pollard, U.S. Navy intelligence officer convicted of spying for Israel
• Peter Malkin, the agent who captured Adolf Eichmann
• Steve J. Rosen, lobbyist with AIPAC indicted on espionage charges (and not to be confused with Stephen P. Rosen at Harvard, signatory to controversial manifesto Rebuilding America's Defenses (2000) of the Project for the New American Century.)
• Keith Weissman, lobbyist with AIPAC indicted on espionage charges
• Larry Franklin, Pentagon spy convicted of passing secrets to Israel

[edit] Hungary

• Clyde Lee Conrad, U.S. Army NCO who betrayed NATO secrets.

[edit] Poland

• Kyle Ridgeway
• William Bell
• Marian Zacharski - Polish Intelligence officer arrested in 1981 Among other things, he won access to material on the then-new Patriot and Phoenix missiles, the enhanced version of the Hawk air-to-air missile, radar instrumentation for the F-15 fighter, "stealth radar" for the B-1 and Stealth bomber, an experimental radar system being tested by the U.S. Navy, and submarine sonar.
• Marian Rejewski codename: Ranaud (with French resistance)

[edit] Romania

• Silvia Patrulescu Romanian Intelligence officier during the Cold War. Current status unknown.

[edit] Russia

• Alfred Redl Austrian General Staff Colonel who worked for Russian intelligence (Okhrana) prior to WWI

[edit] Soviet Union

[edit] NKVD and KGB

• Louis Adamic, writer and spokesman for Yugoslav immigrants. During World War II, advised the OSS on Balkan questions. Source for Golos-Bentley network via Louis Budenz
• Otto Alleman, Du Pont chemist.
• Aldrich Ames, CIA agent spying for the Soviet Union beginning in 1985 as a 'walk-in' to the Soviet Embassy in Washington, D.C.
• Rosario Ames, wife of Aldrich Ames
• Marion Davis Berdecio, spy in U.S. State Department, etc.; comrade of Judith Coplon and Flora Wovschin from their days at Columbia University
• William Weisband, U.S. Army signals intelligence staffer and NKVD agent handler

[edit] The “Berg” – “Art” Group

• • Alexander Koral, former engineer of the municipality of New York.
  • Helen Koral, Berg’s wife, housewife.
  • Richard Koral, son, student.
  • Norman Hite, engineer for the firm “Sperry Gyroscope Company” in New Jersey.
  • Elliot Goldberg, engineer for an oil equipment company in New York.
  • Byron T. Darling, engineer for the Rubber Company. ^[3]
  • Emma Phillips, housewife.
  • Sylvia Koral, former secretary of the code section, Office of War Information.
  • Eduardo Pekino, businessman in Caracas, Venezuela.
  • Richard Setaro, journalist/writer, former employee of the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBC), in Buenos Aires.
  • A. Slavianin
  • S. M. Semenov [Semyonov], rezident, technical intelligence for the KI in Paris
  • A. A. Yatskov
  • O. V. Shimmel
  • K. A. Chugunov
• George Blake, UK SIS officer who betrayed existence of the Berlin Tunnel under the Soviet sector and who probably betrayed Popov
• Felix Bloch, U.S. State Department economic officer in Vienna (1981) probably blackmailed by Soviets into supplying information; not prosecuted quite likely because Robert Hanssen warned Soviets about the investigation into him
• Christopher John Boyce and Daulton Lee - American walk-in spies for the Soviet Union known as the Falcon and the Snowman

[edit] Buben group

• Louis F. Budenz, former member of the Central Committee of the CPUSA, former editor of the newspaper Daily Worker, professor at Fordham Catholic University.
• Robert Menaker, commercial traveler (traveling salesman) to a variety of trade firms
• Frank Palmer, Place of employment unknown. Former member of the CPUSA, broke with the Communist Party in 1937; “Buben” was recruited with his assistance
• Salmond Franklin, without specific assignments, husband of “Rita.” Used as a “signaler” [Russian: sviazist = communications man]
• Sylvia Caldwell, technical secretary for a Trotskyist group in New York.
• Harry Rabinovich

• Lona Cohen, sentenced to 20 years; subject of Hugh Whitemore's drama for stage and TV Pack of Lies
• Morris Cohen sentenced to 25 years; subject of Hugh Whitemore's drama for stage and TV Pack of Lies
• Judith Coplon, NKGB counter-intelligence operative in the U.S. Justice Department; two convictions overturned on technicalities
• Eugene Dennis, senior member of the Communist Party USA leadership, sentenced to 5 years for advocating overthrow of U.S. government
• Arnold Deutsch 30s 'recruiter' in UK, a Hungarian Jew who received a PhD at 24 in Vienna
• Samuel Dickstein, Congressman from New York, Vice Chairman of HUAC during hearings into the Business Plot against FDR
• Mark Gayn, journalist, The Washington Post; Amerasia case
• Dieter Gerhardt, South African Navy Commodore who was convicted of spying for the Soviet Union; reported that the Vela Incident was a joint Israeli-South African nuclear test after being released in 1994 and emigrating to Switzerland
• Ben-Zion Goldberg (Benjamin Waife), journalist, contributor to Toronto Star, Saint Louis Dispatch, New York Post, Today, and The New Republic ^[4]
• Grace Granich
• Theodore Hall, physicist who supplied information from Los Alamos during WWII, a NYC walk-in, never prosecuted
• Robert P. Hanssen, FBI agent convicted of spying for the Soviet Union, betrayed tunnel under new Mt Alto Soviet Embassy in Washington DC; may have done most damage since Philby
• Reino Hayhanen, Finn who worked in the US as a Soviet spy directed by Rudolf Abel, used the VIC cypher, defected to the US
• Ferdinand Heller
• Edward Lee Howard, ex-ClA officer who sold info and escaped to Soviet Union in 1985
• Philip Jaffe
• V. J. Jerome, sentenced to 3 years for advocating overthrow of U.S. government
• Leon Josephson
• Albert Kahn
• Martin Kamen, Radiation Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, Manhattan Project
• William Kampiles, sold KH-11 spy satellite info
• Vladimir Kazakevich, instructor at a wartime U.S. Army school
• Sergei Kondrashev KGB Rezident for Berlin at Karlshorst at the time of the Berlin Tunnel
• Maurice Kowan, MD
• Walter Krivitsky
• Philip Levy
• Maxim Lieber, literary agent
• Giovanni Rossi Lomanitz, Berkeley Radiation Laboratory
• Clayton J. Lonetree, U.S. Marine Embassy guard Sergeant suborned by female KGB agent ('Violetta Sanni') in Moscow, turned himself in to authorities in Dec 1986, convicted 1987
• Jay Lovestone
• Theodor Maly 30's 'recruiter' in UK esp at Cambridge University
• James Lewis Marcus
• Carl Marzani, Deputy Chief Photographic Presentation Branch Office of Strategic Services; United States Department of State
• Alan Nunn May, physicist who supplied information about the British and American atomic bomb research to the Soviet Union
• Bruce Minton, editor of the New Masses
• Kate Mitchell

[edit] Cambridge Five

• Anthony Blunt art advisor to the Queen after WWII (see Miranda Carter, Anthony Blunt: His Lives, NY, Farrar Straus, 2001)
• John Cairncross British Secret Service officer
• Guy Burgess
• Donald Maclean British diplomat
• Harold 'Kim' Philby codename "Parsifal", eventually, a senior British Secret Service officer (autobiography is My Silent War, widely regarded to have been ghost written by the KGB)

[edit] Mocase

• Jacob Albam
• Boris Morros, Hollywood producer
• Jack Soble, sentenced to 7 years, brother of Robert Soblen
• Myra Soble, sentenced to 5½ years
• Robert Soblen, sentenced to life for spying at Sandia Lab, etc., but escaped to Israel, then committed suicide
• Alfred Stern
• George Zlatovski (George Zlatkowski), United States Army intelligence officer
• Jane Zlatovski

[edit] Perlo group

• • Victor Perlo, was the Chief of the Aviation Section of the War Production Board during WWII; head of branch in Research Section, Office of Price Administration Department of Commerce; Division of Monetary Research Department of the Treasury; and later the Brookings Institution
  • Edward Fitzgerald, War Production Board
  • Harold Glasser, Director, Division of Monetary Research, United States Department of the Treasury; United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration; War Production Board; Advisor on North African Affairs Committee; United States Treasury Representative to the Allied High Commission in Italy
  • Alger Hiss, Director of the Office of Special Political Affairs United States Department of State
  • Charles Kramer, Senate Subcommittee on War Mobilization; Office of Price Administration; National Labor Relations Board; Senate Subcommittee on Wartime Health and Education; Agricultural Adjustment Administration; Senate Subcommittee on Civil Liberties; Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee; Democratic National Committee
  • Harry Magdoff, Statistical Division of War Production Board and Office of Emergency Management; Bureau of Research and Statistics, WTB; Tools Division, War Production Board; Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, United States Department of Commerce
  • George Perazich, Foreign Economic Administration; United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
  • Allen Rosenberg, Board of Economic Warfare; Chief of the Economic Institution Staff, Foreign Economic Administration; Senate Subcommittee on Civil Liberties; Senate Committee on Education and Labor; Railroad Retirement Board; Councel to the Secretary of the National Labor Relations Board
  • Donald Wheeler, Office of Strategic Services Research and Analysis division

• Earl Edwin Pitts, CIA
• Mildred Price, sister of Mary Price, leader of China Aid Council
• Geoffrey Prime employee of GCHQ, UK cryptography agency

[edit] Redhead group

• Hedwiga Gompertz, Wacek’s wife, sent to the U.S. in 1938 to carry out fieldwork assignments, defected in 1948
• Paul Massing, scientist at Columbia University’s Institute of Social Research. Defected.
• Oscar Bernstein, lawyer, used for organizing covers for our workers in the U.S.
• Laurence Duggan (aka 19th), former employee of the State Department. Suicide.
• Gerta Frankfurter
• Franz Leopold Neumann, former consultant in the Department of Research and Analysis of the OSS
• Elizaveta Yulyevna Zarubina

• Rudolf Roessler chief of the very successful, and very odd, Lucy spy ring of World War II

[edit] Rosenberg ring

• • Joel Barr, met Julius Rosenberg at City CoIIege of New York, then spied with him and Al Sarant at Army Signal Corps lab in New Jersey; escaped prosecution by fleeing to Soviet bloc in 1950
  • Abraham Brothman, convicted chemist
  • Max Elitcher, longtime friend of Rosenberg and Sobell from their days at CCNY before testifying against them
  • Klaus Fuchs, physicist who supplied information about the British and American atomic bomb research to the Soviet Union; sentenced to 14 years in the UK.
  • Vivian Glassman, fiancée of Joel Barr
  • Harry Gold, courier sentenced to 30 years
  • David Greenglass, draftsman at Los Alamos in World War Two, gave atomic bomb drawings to his sister Ethel Rosenberg, and eventually the Soviets; sentenced to 15 years
  • Ruth Greenglass, escaped prosecution in exchange for her husband's testimony against his sister and brother-in-law, the Rosenbergs
  • Miriam Moskowitz, convicted for assisting Brothman ^[5]
  • William Perl, active in Young Communist League at CCNY, then met Al Sarant at CoIumbia University; served 5 years for perjury
  • Morton Sobell, involved with Barr, Perl and Julius Rosenberg at CCNY; sentenced to 30 years at Alcatraz
  • Ethel Rosenberg, executed at Sing Sing prison near her native New York City for conspiracy to commit espionage
  • Julius Rosenberg, executed at Sing Sing prison near his native New York City for conspiracy to commit espionage
  • Al Sarant, stole radar secrets at Army Signal Corps lab in New Jersey, then he and his mistress abandoned their families for the protection of his Soviet masters in 1950
  • Michel Sidorovrich
  • Anne Sidorovrich

• Simon Rosenberg
• Andrew Roth, Office of Naval Intelligence liaison officer with United States Department of State
• Hafis Salich, Office of Naval Intelligence
• Saville Sax college friend of Theodore Hall assisted with Hall's disclosure to the Soviets of Los Alamos research and development

[edit] Silvermaster group

• • Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, Chief Planning Technician, Procurement Division, United States Department of the Treasury; Chief Economist, War Assets Administration; Director of the Labor Division, Farm Security Administration; Board of Economic Warfare; Reconstruction Finance Corporation Department of Commerce
  • Helen Silvermaster (wife)
  • Schlomer Adler, United States Department of the Treasury
  • Norman Chandler Bursler, United States Department of Justice Anti-Trust Division
  • Frank Coe, Assistant Director, Division of Monetary Research, Treasury Department; Special Assistant to the United States Ambassador in London; Assistant to the Executive Director, Board of Economic Warfare; Assistant Administrator, Foreign Economic Administration
  • Lauchlin Currie, Administrative Assistant to President Roosevelt; Deputy Administrator of Foreign Economic Administration; Special Representative to China
  • Bela Gold, Assistant Head of Program Surveys, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, Agriculture Department; Senate Subcommittee on War Mobilization; Office of Economic Programs in Foreign Economic Administration
  • Sonia Steinman Gold, Division of Monetary Research U.S. Treasury Department; U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Interstate Migration; U.S. Bureau of Employment Security
  • Irving Kaplan, Foreign Funds Control and Division of Monetary Research, United States Department of the Treasury Foreign Economic Administration; chief advisor to the Military Government of Germany
  • George Silverman, civilian Chief Production Specialist, Material Division, United States Army Air Forces Air Staff, War Department, Pentagon
  • William Henry Taylor, Assistant Director of the Middle East Division of Monetary Research, United States Department of Treasury
  • William Ullman, delegate to United Nations Charter meeting and Bretton Woods conference; Division of Monetary Research, Department of Treasury; Material and Services Division, Air Corps Headquarters, Pentagon
  • Anatole Volkov
  • Harry Dexter White, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; Head of the International Monetary Fund

• Helen Levi Simon, columnist for the Daily Worker
• Alfred Slack

[edit] Sound and Myrna groups

• • Solomon Adler, United States Department of the Treasury
  • Cedric Belfrage, journalist; British Security Coordination
  • Elizabeth Bentley courier messenger for Communist spy rings on the American East Coast in the 30s, testified about her activities in hearings in the 40s and 50s
  • Frank Coe, Assistant Director, Division of Monetary Research, Treasury Department; Special Assistant to the United States Ambassador in London; Assistant to the Executive Director, Board of Economic Warfare; Assistant Administrator, Foreign Economic Administration
  • Lauchlin Currie, Administrative Assistant to President Roosevelt; Deputy Administrator of Foreign Economic Administration; Special Representative to China
  • Rae Elson, an active Communist, and courier of the CPUSA underground, was chosen by Joseph Katz to replace Bentley at the Soviet front organization, U.S. Shipping and Service Corporation.
  • Frederick V. Field, Executive Secretary American Peace Mobilization
  • Edward Fitzgerald, War Production Board
  • Charles Flato, Board of Economic Warfare; Civil Liberties Subcommittee, Senate Committee on Education and Labor
  • Eva Getzov, Jewish Welfare Board
  • Bela Gold, Bureau of Intelligence, Assistant Head of Program Surveys, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, Agriculture Department; Senate Subcommittee on War Mobilization; Office of Economic Programs in Foreign Economic Administration
  • Sonia Steinman Gold, Division of Monetary Research U.S. Treasury Department; U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Interstate Migration; U.S. Bureau of Employment Security
  • Irving Goldman, Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs
  • Jacob Golos, the "main pillar" of the NKVD intelligence network in the U.S., died in the arms of comrade Elizabeth Bentley
  • Gerald Graze, United States Civil Service Commission; Department of Defense, U.S. Navy official
  • Stanley Graze, United States Department of State intelligence
  • Michael Greenberg, Board of Economic Warfare; Administrative Division, Enemy Branch, Foreign Economic Administration; United States Department of State
  • Joseph Gregg, Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs; United States Department of State
  • Maurice Halperin, Chief of Latin American Division, Research and Analysis section, Office of Strategic Services; United States Department of State
  • Julius Joseph, Far Eastern section (Japanese Intelligence) Office of Strategic Services
  • Irving Kaplan, United States Department of the Treasury Foreign Economic Administration; United Nations Division of Economic Stability and Development; Chief Advisor to the Military Government of Germany
  • Joseph Katz
  • Charles Kramer, Senate Subcommittee on War Mobilization; Office of Price Administration; National Labor Relations Board; Senate Subcommittee on Wartime Health and Education; Agricultural Adjustment Administration; Civil Liberties Subcommittee, Senate Committee on Education and Labor; Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee; Democratic National Committee
  • Duncan Lee, counsel to General William Donovan, head of Office of Strategic Services
  • Bernice Levin, Office of Emergency Management; Office of Production Management
  • Helen Lowry, (Elza Akhmerova), Akhmerov wife, American-born and raised, Soviet citizen
  • Harry Magdoff, Chief of the Control Records Section of War Production Board and Office of Emergency Management; Bureau of Research and Statistics, WTB; Tools Division, War Production Board; Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, United States Department of Commerce; Statistics Division Works Progress Administration
  • Jenny Levy Miller, Chinese Government Purchasing Commission
  • Robert Miller, Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs; Near Eastern Division United States Department of State
  • Willard Park, Assistant Chief of the Economic Analysis Section, Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs; United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
  • Victor Perlo, chief of the Aviation Section of the War Production Board; head of branch in Research Section, Office of Price Administration Department of Commerce; Division of Monetary Research Department of Treasury; Brookings Institution, head of Perlo group
  • Mary Price, stenographer for Walter Lippmann of the New York Herald
  • Bernard Redmont, head of the Foreign News Bureau Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs
  • William Remington, War Production Board; Office of Emergency Management, convicted for perjury, killed in prison
  • Ruth Rivkin, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
  • Allan Rosenberg, Board of Economic Warfare; Chief of the Economic Institution Staff, Foreign Economic Administration; Civil Liberties Subcommittee, Senate Committee on Education and Labor; Railroad Retirement Board; Councel to the Secretary of the National Labor Relations Board
  • Bernard Schuster
  • Greg Silvermaster, Chief Planning Technician, Procurement Division, United States Department of the Treasury; Chief Economist, War Assets Administration; Director of the Labor Division, Farm Security Administration; Board of Economic Warfare; Reconstruction Finance Corporation Department of Commerce
  • John Spivak, journalist
  • William Taylor, Assistant Director of Monetary Research, United States Department of Treasury
  • Helen Tenney, Office of Strategic Services
  • Lee Tenney, Balkan Division Office of Strategic Services
  • Lud Ullman, delegate to United Nations Charter meeting and Bretton Woods conference; Division of Monetary Research, Department of Treasury; Material and Services Division, Air Corps Headquarters, Pentagon
  • David Weintraub, United States Department of State; head of the Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations; United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA); United Nations Division of Economic Stability and Development
  • Donald Wheeler, Office of Strategic Services Research and Analysis division
  • Anatoly Gorsky, (Anatoly Veniaminovich Gorsky, A. V. Gorsky), “Vadim”, former rezident of the MGB USSR in Washington
  • Olga Pravdin, former employee of the Ministry of Trade, wife of “Sergei,” the rezident in New York; author of Gorsky Memo
  • Vladimir Pravdin, “Sergei”, Tass, former rezident of the MGB USSR in New York
  • Mikhail A. Shaliapin [Shalyapin], “Stock” [“Shtok”]
  • Gaik Badelovich Ovakimian, former rezident of the MGB USSR in New York
  • Iskhak Abdulovich Akhmerov, “Albert” – former Illegal Rezident of the MGB USSR in New York

• Arthur Gerald Steinberg, United States Office of Scientific Research and Development
• Michael Straight, speechwriter for President Franklin Roosevelt
• Lev Vasilevsky, KGB Illegal Rezident Mexico City
• John Vassall, British officer blackmailed into revealing secrets
• John Anthony Walker US Navy senior enlisted man who spied for the Soviet Union for decades, enlisting family and friends to do so as well

[edit] Ware group

• • John Abt, typical of this group, a Communist Party USA operative in Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) and other New Deal programs; he turned Perlo group over to KGB in 1944
  • Marion Bachrach, sister of John Abt, CPUSA operative and congressional staffer
  • Whittaker Chambers, Department of State, testified against Alger Hiss
  • Henry Collins, National Recovery Administration; Department of Agriculture
  • John Herrmann, CPUSA operative and courier, eventually drank himself to death in Mexico
  • Alger Hiss, Department of State, sentenced to 5 years for perjury
  • Donald Hiss, Department of State, younger brother of Alger Hiss
  • Charles Kramer, CPUSA operative and congressional staffer
  • Victor Perlo, became spymaster of Perlo group during World War II
  • Lee Pressman, activist attorney in AAA and WPA
  • George Silverman, Harvard-educated statistician who gave secret Pentagon documents to Nathan Silvermaster group during World War II
  • Harold Ware, Communist Party USA operative and spymaster of Ware group
  • Nathaniel Wey AAA, testified against Alger Hiss
  • Nathan Witt, Communist Party USA operative in AAA and NLRB
  • Harry Dexter White, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; head of the International Monetary Fund which he helped establish along with the World Bank

• Ruby Weil, American communist who assisted in plot to murder Leon Trotsky
• Abraham Weinstein
• Bill Weisband, United States Army Signals Security Agency
• Enos Wicher, professor at CoIumbia U. who also worked at Columbia's Division of War Research; stepfather of Barnard CoIIege recruitress and State Department spy Flora Wovschin

[edit] KGB Illegals

• Rudolf Abel, aka William Fischer, Illegal Rezident in the 1950s
• A. I. Akhmerov, “Albert” – former Illegal Rezident of the MGB USSR in New York

[edit] GRU

• Robinson Bobrow
• Felix Inslerman
• Arvid Jacobson

[edit] Karl group

• • Harry Azizov
  • Barna Bukov
  • David Carpenter (David Zimmerman)
  • Noel Field, United States Department of State
  • Harold Glasser, Director, Division of Monetary Research, United States Department of the Treasury; United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration; War Production Board; Advisor on North African Affairs Committee; United States Treasury Representative to the Allied High Commission in Italy
  • Alger Hiss, United States Department of State, sentenced to 5 years for perjury
  • Donald Hiss, United States Department of State; United States Department of Labor; United States Department of the Interior
  • Lester Hubsch, Frankford Arsenal
  • Felix Inslerman
  • Charles Kramer, Senate Subcommittee on War Mobilization; Office of Price Administration; National Labor Relations Board; Senate Subcommittee on Wartime Health and Education; Agricultural Adjustment Administration; Senate Civil Liberties Subcommittee, Senate Committee on Education and Labor; Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee
  • Peter MacLean, reporter and photojournalist
  • Victor Perlo, chief of the Aviation Section of the War Production Board; head of branch in Research Section, Office of Price Administration Department of Commerce; Division of Monetary Research Department of Treasury; Brookings Institution, head of Perlo group
  • Josef Peters
  • Ward Pigman, National Bureau of Standards; Labor and Public Welfare Committee
  • Lee Pressman, Department of Agriculture; Works Progress Administration; General Counsel Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
  • Vincent Reno, mathematician at United States Army Aberdeen Proving Ground
  • Harry Rosenthal
  • George Silverman, Director of the Bureau of Research and Information Services, US Railroad Retirement Board; Economic Adviser and Chief of Analysis and Plans, Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Material and Services, War Department
  • Julian Wadleigh, United States Department of State
  • Harry Dexter White, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; Head of the International Monetary Fund
  • Viktor Vasilevish Sveshchnikov, United States War Department

[edit] Portland ring

• Konon Molody (aka Gordon Lonsdale)
• Juliet Poyntz
• Fred Rose (politician), Canadian Member of Parliament, first elected from the Labour-Progressive Party (Canada) 1943
• Simon Rosenberg
• Milton Schwartz

[edit] Sorge ring

• Chen Han-seng
• Hotsumi Ozaki
• Yotoku Miyagi
• Dr. Richard Sorge codename "station Ramsay", German 'journalist', spy throughout East Asia in the 30's and 40's. He was also on the Abwehr rolls -- almost certainly falsely -- while in Japan in WWII. Biggest coup: he radioed Stalin the precise launch date of Operation Barbarossa.
• Agnes Smedley
• William Spiegel
• Lydia Stahl
• Joseph Stenbuck
• Irving Charles Velson, Brooklyn Navy Yard; American Labor Party candidate for New York State Senate
• Flora Wovschin, NKVD operative in U.S. State Department, comrade of Marion Davis Berdecio and Judith Coplon from their days at CoIumbia University
• Vasily Zarubin, husband of Elizabeth Zubilin
• Elizabeth Zubilin, recruiter in U.S. of whom Pavel Sudoplatov, head of NKVD Fourth Directorate said, "In developing J. Robert Oppenheimer as a source, Elizabeth Zubilin was essential."

[edit] Others

• Yuri Modin 30s 'recruiter' in UK
• Will Morgan
• Steve Nelson
• Harold Nicholson, ClA officer who supplied information to the Soviets for a time in 1994
• Joseph North, editor of the New Masses
• Julia Older, Office of Strategic Services; Office of War Information
• Alexander Orlov, KGB adviser to the Republican government during the Spanish Civil War who defected to the United States in 1938.

[edit] GRU Illegals

• Arthur Adams, Illegal GRU officer who posed as an immigrant in the US from 1938 to 1945.
• Leonard Cohen, attorney United States Department of the Interior Illegal
• Boris Devyatkin, Illegal
• Albert Feierabend, Illegal
• Moishe Stern, Illegal Rezident
• Joshua Tamer
• Alfred Tilton, Illegal Rezident
• Alexander Ulanovsky, Illegal Rezident
• Ignacy Witczak, Illegal Officer

[edit] Naval GRU

• Jack Fahy (Naval GRU), Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs; Board of Economic Warfare; United States Department of the Interior
• Edna Patterson Naval GRU, served in US August 1943 to 1956

[edit] United Kingdom (MI5/MI6)

• Janet Chisholm wife of UK diplomat and courier contact for Penkovsky
• Noel Coward, joined the secret service at his own insistence and used his society connections and reputation to his advantage.
• Nicholas Dunning
• Mansfield Cumming 'C' of the UK SIS, earliest director
• Ian Fleming was the assistant to the director of Naval Intelligence during World War II, during which he authored a number of operations. Most notably, Operation Goldeneye, a contingency plan had Spain joined the Axis Powers and invaded Gibraltar; and Operation Ruthless a plan never carried out that was drawn up to capture the Naval Enigma material.
• Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, operated as a spy during the Second Boer War while fronting as a rather goofy naturalist who chased butterflies around Boer fortifications and drew his intelligence on the pictures of the specimens he caught.
• Graham Greene
• Sidney Reilly the so-called 'Ace of Spies', may have ended as defector to Soviets during last penetration mission
• Michael Stokes and Harold Shergold SIS (Secret Intelligence Service/MI6) officers who helped run Penkovsky, Shergold debriefed George Blake
• Greville Wynne UK international businessman recruited by SIS as a courier to and from Penkovsky, arrested in Budapest and tried with Penkovsky
• Francis Walsingham was one of the earliest known spymasters. He worked for Queen Elizabeth I.
• Sir Richard Willis and Sir Samuel Morland were both double agents during The Protectorate period of the mid 17th century.
• John le Carré, pseudonym of David John Moore Cornwell, well-known spy author. Joined the British Foreign Service (ultimately MI6), where he served mostly in West Germany.

[edit] United States (CIA)

• Adamski cover name for Polish trade official recruited by Clarridge
• Robert Amory Deputy Director of CIA (& WWII Marine officer) during Bay of Pigs planning, excluded by Allen Dulles from the project
• James Jesus Angelton CIA counter intelligence chief for decades
• Robert Baer
• Chuck Barris creator and host of television's The Gong Show. His exploits as a spy were depicted in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. There is considerable doubt about the veracity of his career in espionage.
• Milt Bearden CIA
• Moe Berg
• Gary Berntsen
• Richard Bissell CIA Deputy Director of Operations who planned Bay of Pigs operation, and who worked with Kelly Johnson of the Lockheed Skunk Works to develop and deploy the U-2 aircraft before schedule and under budget ^[6]
• Charles Bohlen an 'anti-spy' as ambassador; when his CIA station chief and several others were compromised by Soviet female agents, he asked that all CIA personnel be withdrawn
• Joseph Bulik CIA case officer helped with Penkovsky
• Duane 'Dewey' Clarridge longtime CIA field agent (NE & SE Asia) and administrator pardoned by GHW Bush for Iran-Contra involvement; was Aldrich Ames' supervisor (See A Spy for All Seasons, 1997, Scribner's).
• Jack Downing CIA case officer who ran Ogorodnik
• Allen Dulles OSS spymaster in Bern, Switzerland, during WWII, later Director of the CIA
• Sheffield Edwards CIA officer who liased with Mafia boss Sam Giancana regarding the assassination of Fidel Castro (early 60s)
• Jake Esterline CIA Bay of Pigs trainer/planner
• Nathan Hale spy/courier for Americans in Revolutionary War, executed by British Army

John Hart Liaison to Italian Naval Intelligence, later CIA bureau chief in Saigon during Vietnam war, testified before Congress.

• William King Harvey CIA (though first FBI) officer whose idea the Berlin Tunnel (Operation Gold) was while Chief of the Berlin Operations Base; debriefed Whittaker Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley, supposedly demanded recall of Kim Philby from the US in the early 50s ^[7]

Roger Hollingshead US 5th Army OSS unit in Italy, last part of World War II; Strategic Services Unit, Rome; CIA special operations division, assigned Rome, liaison to Italian Navy Intelligence involved in operating comservative anticommunist espionage agents in most successful penetration of Albania

• E. Howard Hunt CIA - OSS/China; CIA Office of Policy Coordination propagandist; Guatemala coup 1953; Bay of Pigs 1961
• George Kisevalter CIA case officer/handler who 'ran' both Popov and Penkovsky
• Fritz Kolbe German diplomat who passed secret Nazi documents to the US embassy in Berne from 1943 until 1945. Described by the CIA as the most important spy of the Second World War for the US, while Sorge is #1 in WWII
• Ryszard Kuklinski - was a Polish-born colonel and "Cold War" masterspy, who passed top secret Warsaw Pact documents to the CIA between years 1971 and 1981
• Jack Hawkins CIA Bay of Pigs trainer/planner (former Colonel)
• Patrick McChesney CIA officer assisting with South American operations starting in the 1980's.
• Aleksandr Dmitrievich Ogorodnik code name TRIGON, Soviet diplomat who 'walked in' to work for CIA in Bogotá, Colombia in 80s and later in Moscow
• Oleg Penkovsky GRU Colonel who became an agent in place for the CIA (after an attempt at contact via students in July 1960 on the Moskvoretsky Bridge in Moscow) and whose information was very important during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Influenced by the example of Colonel Charles Maclean Peeke, US Army, whom he met in Ankara Turkey ('55-'56) ^[8]
• Valerie Plame was the undercover agent for the CIA whose identity was revealed in a newspaper column witten by Robert Novak.
• Pyotr Popov GRU Major who became an agent in place for the CIA beginning in 1953
• Gary Powers pilot of U-2 which crashed in the Soviet Union. Exchanged for Colonel Abel after trial and conviction
• Paul Redmond the 'George Smiley' of the CIA; helped uncover Ames
• Robert Richer^[9]

Raymond Rocca Close colleague/friend of James Angleton's, headed "outside unit" of CIA intelligence agents assigned to Rome late 1940s to late '50s, joined Angleton on CIA counterintelligence staff

• Gary Schroen
• John Stockwell CIA
• Konstantin Volkov Soviet intelligence officer and diplomat in Turkey whose attempted defection to the US was betrayed (by Kim Philby, who had been sent to assist him in his efforts). He was kidnapped back to Moscow. [NOT CIA CASE]
• Diana Worthen CIA colleague of Ames in Mexico, reported suspicions about him in 90

[edit] Taiwan (Republic of China)

• Isabelle Cheng

[edit] Unknown affiliation, to sort

• James Armistead
• Morris Cohen (Soviet spy) sentenced to 25 years; subject of Hugh Whitemore's drama for stage and TV Pack of Lies
• Lona Cohen, Soviet spy sentenced to 20 years; subject of Hugh Whitemore's drama for stage and TV Pack of Lies
• Reinhard Gehlen worked in German Army Intelligence on the Eastern Front in WWII, later director of West Germany's Intelligence Agency
• Anatoliy Golitsyn
• Noor Inyat Khan, World War II, executed by the Nazis
• Michael Goleniewski Pole who defected to the West, exposed Blake as double agent
• Mata Hari, the infamous Dutch exotic dancer in World War I of questionable affiliation. She may or may not have been intentionally spying for Germany. Her naïveté sealed her fate; she was executed for spying in 1917.
• Mykola Mel'nychenko
• Harold Nicholson
• Rubezahl codename of an unknown source in KGB, probably a general, whose spymaster was Norbert Juretzko.
• Charles McCarry

[edit] References

1. ^ H Hieber. "Mademoiselle Docteur": The Life and Service of Imperial Germany’s Only Female Intelligence Officer Journal of Intelligence History, Winter 2005.
2. ^ If it had not been for 15 minutes...
3. ^ Hayes commentary
4. ^ Jewish Antifascist Committee
5. ^ Guilty Time: Dec. 04, 1950
6. ^ J T Richelson, Wizards of Langley: Inside the CIA Directorate of Science and Technology, 2001
7. ^ Murphy, Kondrashev, and Bailey, Battleground Berlin: CIA v KGB in the Cold War, Yale Univ Press, 1997
8. ^ Schecter and Deriabin, The Spy Who Saved the World, Scribner's, 1992
9. ^ D Priest and W Pincus Key Official In Clandestine Service of CIA To Retire Washington Post, September 9, 2005; Page A05

[edit] See also

• List of cryptographers
• List of Americans in Venona papers
• Treason
• List of fictional secret agents