List of American spies
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.
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in 1951
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Surveillance video frame of Jonathan Pollard in the act of stealing classified documents
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
- James Armistead Lafayette
- James Rivington
- 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
- Shreenath Pai
- William Bingham[2]
Culper Ring
Spied for the Crown
Double agents
- Edward Bancroft
- John Champe
- Jack McAnany
- Jack January
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
- Joseph Baden
- Richard Thomas (Zarvona)
- 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
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January 1923 photo of Colonel Sidney Mashbir that was taken while he was living in Japan
American World War Two era spies
- Arthur Goldberg[8]
- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.[8]
- Claire Phillips
- Eric Erickson
- Frederick Mayer
- Fritz Kolbe
- Joan Bondurant
- John Birch
- Martin Quigley, Jr.
- Moe Berg[8]
- Rene Joyeuse[9]
- Richard Sakakida
- Sidney Mashbir
- Sterling Hayden[8]
- William G. Sebold
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
- William Wear
- Yosef Amit
- Yuri Nosenko
- Oleg Penkovsky
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
- Arvid Jacobson
- Bill Weisband
- Boris Morros
- Charles Kramer
- Donald Niven Wheeler
- Donald Heathfield[10]
- Earl Browder
- Elizabeth Zarubina
- Harold Glasser
- Harold Ware
- Harry Dexter White
- Harry Gold
- Harry Magdoff
- Hede Massing
- Herbert Fuchs
- Jacob Golos
- Jane Foster Zlatovski
- John Abt
- John Herrmann
- Julian Wadleigh
- Julius Rosenberg
- Klaus Fuchs
- Lee Pressman
- Louis F. Budenz
- Martha Dodd Stern
- Nathan Gregory Silvermaster
- Nathan Witt
- Nathaniel Weyl
- Noel Field
- Reino Häyhänen
- Robert Hanssen
- Tracey Foley[10]
- Victor Perlo
- Vilyam Genrikhovich Fisher
- Vincent Reno
- Ward Pigman
- Whittaker Chambers
Spied for Vietnam
Spied for Israel
Post-Cold War spies
Spied on Iran 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
- Kevin Mallory
- Harold James Nicholson
- Larry Wu-Tai Chin
- Sharon M. Scranage
- William Kampiles
Defense Intelligence Agency
Armed Forces
- Clayton John Lonetree
- John Anthony Walker
- Morris Cohen
- George Trofimoff
- Clyde Lee Conrad
Federal Contractors
- Andrew Daulton Lee
- Christopher John Boyce
- Jonathan Pollard
- Stewart Nozette
- Kimberly Tillman
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.
- 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.
- "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.
- 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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