
Agnes Smedley
American journalist who spied for the Soviet Union against the Japanese.
December 16, 2014/by mlong43
Alan Nunn May
British physicist who passed atomic secrets to the Soviet Union in the 1940s.
March 16, 2015/by gaiusx
Aldrich Ames
CIA counter-intelligence officer convicted of spying for the Soviet Union.
March 16, 2015/by mlong43
Alfred Redl
Austrian head of counter-intelligence blackmailed by Russia into passing secrets.
March 16, 2015/by mlong43
Alger Hiss
U.S. State Department official accused committing espionage for the Soviet Union.
March 16, 2015/by mlong43
Anthony Blunt
Noted British art historian who acted the Soviet recruiter of a number of British spies.
March 17, 2015/by mlong43
Clayton Lonetree
A United States Marine coerced into passing secrets to the Soviet Union.
March 17, 2015/by mlong43
Donald Maclean
British diplomat who spied for the Soviet Union as part of the Cambridge Five.
March 17, 2015/by mlong43
Earl Pitts
Former FBI Special Agent who worked as a mole for the Soviet Union.
March 17, 2015/by mlong43
Ethel Rosenberg
American communist executed for espionage against the United States.
March 17, 2015/by mlong43
Feliks Dzerzhinsky
Established and directed the Bolshevik Secret Police, the CHEKA.
March 17, 2015/by mlong43
George Blake
British spy who worked as a double-agent for the Soviet Union.
March 17, 2015/by mlong43
Gordon Lonsdale
Soviet intelligence officer who headed the Portland spy ring in the United States
March 17, 2015/by mlong43
Harold Nicholson
Among the highest ranking CIA officers ever convicted of spying for the Russians.
March 18, 2015/by mlong43
John Cairncross
British intelligence officer who passed secrets to the Soviet Union.
March 18, 2015/by mlong43
John Walker
U.S. military communications specialist who ran a Soviet family spy ring.
March 18, 2015/by mlong43
Judith Coplon
Soviet agent who passed information about American counter-intelligence.
March 18, 2015/by mlong43
Julius Rosenberg
American-born Soviet recruiter who obtained and passed military secrets to the Soviets.
March 18, 2015/by mlong43
Kim Philby
High-ranking member of British intelligence spied for the Soviet Union.
March 18, 2015/by mlong43
Klaus Fuchs
German-born British theoretical physicist and who passed Manhattan project secrets to the Soviets.
March 18, 2015/by mlong43
Lavrentiy Beria
Beria, Lavrentiy Chief of the NKVD and the head of the great Soviet purge.
March 18, 2015/by mlong43
Nelson Drummond
U.S. Navy Yeoman blackmailed in spying for the Soviets, the first Black American ever convicted of espionage.
March 18, 2015/by mlong43
Morris Childs
An America-born Soviet spy who later became a double agent for the US.
March 18, 2015/by mlong43
Richard Miller
First FBI agent ever convicted of espionage for passing secrets to Soviet KGB agents.
March 18, 2015/by mlong43
Richard Sorge
Soviet military intelligence officer who ran a spy ring against the Japanese.
March 19, 2015/by mlong43
Robert Hanssen
American FBI agent who passed information to Soviet intelligence.
March 19, 2015/by mlong43
Ronald Pelton
American spy convicted of passing NSA signals intelligence information to the KGB.
March 19, 2015/by mlong43
Rudolf Abel
Notorious British-raised Soviet Cold War spy swapped for U-2 pilot.
March 19, 2015/by mlong43
Rudolf Roessler
Head of the Soviet anti-Nazi Lucy espionage ring that spied on Germany.
March 19, 2015/by mlong43
Sandor Rado
Hungarian cartographer who spied on the Nazis for the Soviet Union.
March 19, 2015/by mlong43
Ted Hall
American physicist and a Manhattan project spy for the Soviet Union.
March 19, 2015/by mlong43
Whittaker Chambers
Former Soviet spy who later exposed other Soviet spies in the US.
March 20, 2015/by mlong43About the Site
History of Spies journeys through time to look at the spies and events that secretly shaped the world. The site looks at individual spies, spy rings, agencies, scandals and missions that often altered wars and often guaranteed peace.
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