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
- William H. Dobbs (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
- Abraham Woodhull
- Agent 355
- Anna Strong
- Austin Roe
- Benjamin Tallmadge
- Robert Townsend
- Sarah Townsend
- Caleb Brewster
- Cato
- James Rivington
- Jonas Hawkins
Spied for the Crown
- Ann Bates
- Benedict Arnold
- Benjamin Church
- Miss Jenny
- Metcalf Bowler
- John André
Double agents
- Edward Bancroft
- James Armistead Lafayette
- John Champe
American Civil War era spies
Union spies
Confederate spies
- Alexander Keith, Jr.
- Annie Jones[3]
- Antonia Ford
- Belle Boyd
- Confederate Signal Bureau
- David Owen Dodd
- Dr. William Joseph Heacker[4]
- Henry Thomas Harrison
- James Dunwoody Bulloch
- John Yates Beall
- Richard Thomas (Zarvona)
- Sarah Ewing Sims Carter Gaut
- Rose O'Neal Greenhow
- Sarah Slater[5][6]
- Thomas A. Jones
- Thomas Harbin[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
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 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
- John Anthony Walker
- Julian Wadleigh
- Juliet Stuart Poyntz
- Julius Rosenberg
- Ethel Rosenberg
- Klaus Fuchs
- Lauchlin Currie
- Lee Pressman
- Lona Cohen
- Louis F. Budenz
- Martha Dodd Stern
- Michael Lance Walker, son of John Anthony Walker
- Morris Cohen
- Morton Sobell
- Nathan Gregory Silvermaster
- Nathan Witt
- Nathaniel Weyl
- Noel Field
- Reino Häyhänen
- Robert Hanssen
- Russell Alton McNutt
- 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 August Fisher aka Adolf Ivanovich Abel
- William "Lud" Ullman
Spied for Vietnam
Spied for Israel
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
- Carlos Alvarez
- Elsa Alvarez
- Ana Montes
- Kendall Myers
- Gwendolyn Myers
- Victor Manuel Rocha (US ambassador)[15]
- Wasp Network
Spied on America for South Africa
Spied on Cuba for America
American Gulf War era spies
- April Fool
Americans who spied for foreign countries
CIA
NSA
FBI
- Earl Edwin Pitts
- Richard Miller
- Robert Hanssen
Defense Intelligence Agency
Armed Forces
Federal contractors
House Committee on Armed Services
References
- ^ Fitzpatrick, John C. (January 1939). 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.
- ^ The Jonathan Pollard Case. http://www.crimelibrary.com/terrorists_spies/spies/pollard/11.html Retrieved August 14, 2014. Archived January 10, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ 4spiritoftruthsays (7 June 2012). "Russian colonel was 'most successful CIA spy' in recent years". intelnews.org.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Russian colonel convicted of spying for U.S." cbsnews.com.
- ^ "FBI: 10 Russian Spies Arrested in U.S." cbsnews.com.
- ^ https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/ex-u-s-ambassador-charged-as-secret-agent-for-cuba-08c06b2f
- ^ "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.
