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This is a list of notable spies or alleged spies by the country in which they worked for.

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

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

East Germany (Stasi)

• Günter Guillaume, spy for East Germany who caused the resignation of German Chancellor Willy Brandt
• Rainer Rupp, spy for East Germany in NATO headquarters
• Markus Wolf, director of the espionage operations of East Germany

France

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

Germany

• Mata Hari, double spy for France and Germany during World War I
• Simon Emil Koedel, sleeper agent for the Abwehr activated during World War II. Operated primarily in New York City.

Israel (Mossad)

• Nachum Admoni, director
• Jonathan Pollard, U.S. Navy intelligence officer convicted of spying for Israel
• Cheryl Hanin Bentov
• Nicholas Davies, editor of the Daily Mirror
• Ari Ben-Menashe
• Eli Cohen, spy for Israel executed 1965

Poland

• 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.
• William Bell

The People's Republic of China

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

United Kingdom (MI5/MI6)

• Robert Baden-Powell, operated as a spy during the 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.
• Michael Stokes and Harold Shergold SIS (Secret Intelligence Service/MI6) officers who helped run Penkovsky, Shergold debriefed George Blake
• Janet Chisholm wife of UK diplomat and courier contact for Penkovsky
• Noel Coward, joined the secret service at his own insistance and used his society connections and reputation to his advantage.
• Sidney Reilly the so-called 'Ace of Spies', may have ended as defector to Soviets during last penetration mission
• 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.

United States (CIA)

• Robert Amory Deputy Director of CIA (& WWII Marine officer) during Bay of Pigs planning, excluded by Allen Dulles from the project
• Moe Berg
• Joseph Bulik CIA case officer helped with Penkovsky
• Adamski cover name for Polish trade official recruited by Clarridge
• James Jesus Angelton CIA counter intelligence chief for decades
• 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 (see J T Richelson, Wizards of Langley: Inside the CIA Directorate of Science and Technology, 2001)
• 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
• 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
• 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 (see Murphy, Kondrashev, and Bailey, Battleground Berlin: CIA v KGB in the Cold War, Yale Univ Press, 1997)
• George Kisevalter CIA case officer/handler who 'ran' both Popov and Penkovsky
• 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)
• Aleksandr Dmitrievich Ogorodnik code name TRIGON, Soviet diplomat who 'walked in' to work for CIA in Bogota Columbia 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) (see Schecter and Deriabin, The Spy Who Saved the World, Scribner's, 1992)
• 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
• Konstantin Volkov Soviet diplomat in Turkey whose attempted defection to the US was betrayed (probably by Philby). He was kidnapped back to Moscow.
• Diana Worthen CIA colleague of Ames in Mexico, reported suspicions about him in 90
• Harriet Tubman
• 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

Soviet Union (KGB)

• Rudolf Abel
• Aldrich Ames, CIA agent spying for the Soviet Union beginning in 1985 as a 'walk-in' to the Soviet Embassy in Washington DC
• Rosario Ames, wife of Aldrich Ames
• Elizabeth Bentley courier messenger for CPUSA spy rings in and around US East Coast in the 30s, testified about her activities in hearings in the 40s and 50s
• George Blake, UK SIS officer who betrayed existence of the Berlin Tunnel under the Soviet sector and who probably betrayed Popov
• Felix Bloch US State Department economic officer in Vienna (1981) probably blackmailed by Soviets into supplying information; not prosecuted quite likely because Hanssen warned Soviets about the investigation into him
• Christopher John Boyce and Daulton Lee - A pair of American walk-in spies for the Soviet Union known as the Falcon and the Snowman.
• Cambridge Five
  • Harold 'Kim' Philby eventually, a senior British Secret Service officer (autobiography is My Silent War, widely regarded to have been ghost written by the KGB)
  • Anthony Blunt art advisor to the Queen after WWII (see Miranda Carter, Anthony Blunt: His Lives, NY, Farrar Straus, 2001)
  • Guy Burgess
  • John Cairncross British Secret Service officer
  • Donald Maclean British diplomat
• Arnold Deutsch 30s 'recruiter' in UK, a Hungarian Jew who received a PhD at 24 in Vienna
• William Fischer aka Rudolf Abel
• Klaus Fuchs, physicist who supplied information about the British and American atomic bomb research to the Soviet Union
• 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 emmigrating to Switzerland
• Theodore Hall, physicist who supplied information from Los Alamos during WWII, a NYC walk-in
• Robert P. Hanssen, FBI agent convicted of spying for the Soviet Union, betrayed tunnel under new Mt Alto Soviet Embassey 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
• Edward Lee Howard ex CIA officer who sold info and escaped to Soviet Union
• William Kampiles, sold KH-11 spy satellite info
• Sergei Kondrashev KGB Rezident for Berlin at Karlshorst at the time of the Berlin Tunnel
• Clayton J. Lonetree US Marine Embassy guard Sergeant suborned by female KGB agent ('Violetta Sanni') in Moscow, turned himself in in Dec 86, convicted 87
• Alan Nunn May, physicist who supplied information about the British and American atomic bomb research to the Soviet Union
• Theodor Maly 30's 'recruiter' in UK esp at Cambridge University
• Rudolf Roessler chief of the very successful, and very odd, Lucy spy ring of WWII
• Yuri Modin 30s 'recruiter' in UK
• James Nicholson CIA officer who supplied information to the Soviets for a time in 1994
• Alexander Orlov KGB advisor to the Republican government during the Spanish Civil War who defected to the United States in 1938.
• Earl Edwin Pitts
• Geoffrey Prime employee of GCHQ, UK cryptography agency
• Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, American civilians executed for espionage for the Soviet Union
• Alfred Redl Austrian General Staff Colonel who worked for Russian intelligence prior to WWI
• Saville Sax college friend of Theodore Hall assisted with Hall's disclosure to the Soviets of Los Alamos research and development
• Richard Sorge German 'journalist' who worked for the Soviet Union as a 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.
• 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

Unknown affiliation

• James Armistead
• Mansfield Cumming 'C' of the UK SIS, earliest director
• Ian Fleming worked in UK Naval Intelligence during World War II; author of a plan — not in the end carried out — for capturing Naval Enigma material: Operation Ruthless.
• Reinhard Gehlen worked in German Army Intelligence on the Eastern Front in WWII, later director of West Germany's Intelligence Agency
• Anatoli Golitsin
• David Greenglass engineering draftsman who worked at Los Alamos in WWII, gave engineering data to his sister Ethel Rosenberg
• Noor Inyat Khan, WWII, executed by the Nazis
• Gordon Lonsdale
• Mykola Mel'nychenko
• Ana Montes
• Harold Nicholson
• John Vassall
• 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.

Fictional secret agents

• Jack Bauer in the Fox TV Series 24
• Mr. Verloc in Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent
• Jerry Cornelius
• Harry Palmer
• Modesty Blaise
• John Drake in Danger Man
• Number 6 in The Prisoner
• John Steed and Emma Peel in The Avengers
• La Femme Nikita
• Jason Bourne in Robert Ludlum's novels
• Elihu 'Sam' Nivens in The Puppet Masters
• Alex Rider
• Kim Possible
• Sam, Clover and Alex from Totally Spies
• Joanna Dark in the Nintendo 64 video game Perfect Dark
• Nick Fury, Black Widow, and Elektra Natchios in the Marvel Comics Universe
• Sydney Bristow in Alias
• Sam (Spynet) in Spynet
• Emily Pollifax in Dorothy Gilman's novels

Parodies of secret agents:

• Austin Powers
• In Like Flint
• The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
• Maxwell Smart and Agent 99 from Get Smart
• Johnny English
• I Spy

See also: List of cryptographers