List of Eastern Bloc agents in the United States

[1] This is a list of people who have been accused of, or confirmed as working for intelligence organizations of the Soviet Union and Soviet-aligned countries against the United States. In some cases accusations are considered well-supported or were otherwise confirmed or admitted, but other cases are controversial or contested.

For more information, see:

Czechoslovakia (StB)

  • Karl Koecher, mole who penetrated the CIA

Hungary

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

Poland

  • Marian Zacharski, Polish Intelligence officer arrested 1981. Among other things, he won access to material on the then-new Patriot and Phoenix missiles, the enhanced version of Hawk air-to-air missile, radar instrumentation for F-15 fighter, "stealth radar" for B-1 and Stealth bombers, an experimental radar system being tested by U.S. Navy, and submarine sonar.

Soviet Union

NKVD and KGB

NKVD

KGB

Buben group

Mocase

Perlo group

Redhead group

Rosenberg ring

Silvermaster group

Sound and Myrna groups

Ware group

The "Berg" – "Art" Group

KGB Illegals

GRU (Soviet military intelligence)

Karl group

Portland ring

  • Morris Cohen (Soviet spy) served 8 of 25-year sentence, then exchanged; subject of Hugh Whitemore's drama for stage and TV Pack of Lies; died in Moscow
  • Lona Cohen, served 8 of 20-year sentence, then exchanged; subject of Hugh Whitemore's drama for stage and TV Pack of Lies; died in Moscow
  • Ethel Gee, Houghton's accomplice, served 9 of 15-year sentence
  • Harry Houghton, passed British naval testing secrets from Isle of Portland, UK; served 9 of 15-year sentence
  • Konon Molody (a.k.a. Gordon Lonsdale), served 3 of 25-year sentence, then exchanged for a prisoner from USSR

Sorge ring

Naval GRU

GRU Illegals

Others

See also

References

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External links

  • Vassiliev, Alexander (2003), Alexander Vassiliev's Notes on Anatoly Gorsky's December 1948 Memo on Compromised American Sources and Networks, retrieved 2012-04-21
  • Official SVR site (Russian)
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