Name | When | Allegiance | Agency/Organization/Service |
Motojiro Akashi | 1904 | Japan | Akashi Kikan |
Vera Atkins | 1944 | United Kingdom | Special Operations Executive |
Lavrentiy Beria | 1938 | Soviet Union | NKVD |
Arturo Bocchini | 1927–1940 | Fascist Italy | OVRA |
Wilhelm Canaris | 1935 | Nazi Germany | Abwehr |
Thomas Cromwell | 1533 | Kingdom of England | |
William J. Donovan | 1941 | United States | Office of Strategic Services |
Armand Jean du Plessis (Cardinal Richelieu) | 1616 | Kingdom of France | |
Allen Dulles | 1953 | United States | Central Intelligence Agency |
Zhou Enlai | 1928–1932 | Chinese Communist Party[note 1] | Special Service section of the Central Committee Urban Work Committee of the Central Committee |
Rafaat Gebril | 1973 | Egypt | General Intelligence Directorate (Egypt) |
Ali Mamlouk | 2005–present | Syria | National Security Bureau General Intelligence Directorate (Syria) |
Sándor Goldberger (alias J. Peters) | 1930–1948 | Soviet Union | Communist Party USA |
Sidney Gottlieb | 1951–1973 | United States | Central Intelligence Agency |
Hamid Gul | 1987–1989 | Pakistan | Director-General of Inter-Services Intelligence |
Faiz Hameed | 2019 [1] | Pakistan | Director-General of Inter-Services Intelligence |
Isser Harel | 1952–1963 | Israel | Mossad |
R. N. Kao | 1968–1977 | India | Research and Analysis Wing |
Ronnie Kasrils | 1983–1989 2004–2008 | South Africa | Umkhonto we Sizwe Minister of Intelligence Services |
David Kimche | 1953–1980 | Israel | Mossad |
Ivone Kirkpatrick | 1918–1918 | United Kingdom | British Army, Belgian resistance |
Maxwell Knight | 1924–1930 | United Kingdom | MI5 |
Dai Li | 1928–1946 | Republic of China | National Revolutionary Army |
Colin Hercules Mackenzie | 1940–1946 | United Kingdom | Special Operations Executive – Force 136 |
Yuri Modin | 1948–1951 | Soviet Union | NKVD |
Hugh Montgomery | 1953–1981 (CIA) 1981–1985 (INR) 1989–2014 (CIA) | United States | Central Intelligence Agency Bureau of Intelligence and Research |
Bhola Nath Mullik | 1950–1964 | India | Intelligence Bureau |
Donald Nichols | 1951 | United States | 6004th Air Intelligence Service Squadron |
Manuel Piñeiro | 1961–1964 | Cuba | Dirección de Inteligencia |
Allan Pinkerton | 1855–1861 | United States | Union Intelligence Service |
Wang Puchen | 1948–1949 | Republic of China | Bureau of Investigation and Statistics |
Pyotr Rachkovsky | 1885–1902 | Russian Empire | Okhrana |
Alfred Redl | 1903–1913 | Austria-Hungary; Russian Empire[note 2] | Evidenzbureau |
Mao Renfeng | 1946–1956 | Republic of China | Bureau of Investigation and Statistics |
Semyon Semyonov | 1937–1950 | Soviet Union | NKVD |
Kang Sheng | 1940s–1946 | Chinese Communist Party[note 1] | Central Social Affairs Department |
Hugh Sinclair | 1919–1939 | United Kingdom | Secret Intelligence Service |
Mansfield Smith-Cumming | 1909–1923 | United Kingdom | Secret Intelligence Service |
Richard Sorge | 1920–1941 | Soviet Union | Main Intelligence Directorate |
Sidney Souers | 1946–1946 | United States | Director of the Central Intelligence Agency |
Gustav Steinhauer | 1911–1914 | Germany | Nachrichten-Abteilung |
William Stephenson | 1940–1946 | Canada | British Security Co-ordination |
Emanuel Sueyro | c. 1620–1629 | Spain | |
Benjamin Tallmadge | 1778–1783 | United States | Culper Ring |
John Thurloe | 1653 | Commonwealth of England | |
Liam Tobin | 1919 | Irish Republic | Irish Republican Army |
Francis Walsingham | 1573–1590 | Kingdom of England | |
George Washington | 1775 | United States | Continental Army |
William Wickham | 1795–1801 | United Kingdom | |
Markus Wolf | 1951–1986 | East Germany | Main Directorate for Reconnaissance |
Shen Zui | 1934 [2]–1949 | Republic of China | Bureau of Investigation and Statistics |
Kyrylo Budanov | 2020-Present | Ukraine | Main Directorate of Intelligence (Ukraine) |