
Agnes Smedley
American journalist who spied for the Soviet Union against the Japanese.
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Alan Nunn May
British physicist who passed atomic secrets to the Soviet Union in the 1940s.
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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.
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Anthony Blunt
Noted British art historian who acted the Soviet recruiter of a number of British spies.
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Carl Lody
Reserve Officer of the Imperial German Navy who spied on England during World War I.
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Christine Granville
British SOE known for her daring exploits in intelligence and sabotage missions.
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Clayton Lonetree
A United States Marine coerced into passing secrets to the Soviet Union.
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Clyde Conrad
U.S. Army Sgt. who passed top secret information to Hungary & Czechoslovakia.
March 17, 2015/by mlong43
Donald Maclean
British diplomat who spied for the Soviet Union as part of the Cambridge Five.
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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
Franz Von Papen
German spymaster assigned to disrupt U.S. - British communications.
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
Hans Oster
German Army general who built a resistance organization against the Nazis.
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
Herbert Yardley
American cryptologist who wrote the expose "The American Black Chamber."
March 18, 2015/by mlong43
Igor Gouzenko
Soviet cipher clerk who defected to Canada, turning over Soviet secrets.
March 18, 2015/by mlong43
James Jesus Angleton
Head of Counter-Intelligence for the CIA and a noted mole-hunter.
March 16, 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
Jonathan Pollard
American Naval Intelligence analyst who provided Top Secret Classified information to Israel.
March 18, 2015/by mlong43
Josephine Baker
American-born entertainer who spied for France against the Nazis.
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
Lionel “Buster” Crabb
British Royal Navy diver assigned to missions against the Soviet Union.
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
Noor Inayat Khan
British SOE agent who worked with the French Resistance against Nazi Germany.
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
Marthe Richard
A former prostitute who spied for France against Germany and later became a politician.
March 18, 2015/by mlong43
Mata Hari
A Dutch exotic dancer who worked as a double-agent for France and Germany.
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
Morris “Two-Gun” Cohen
London-born adventurer who arranged counter-intelligence for China.
March 18, 2015/by mlong43
Oleg Penkovsky
Soviet colonel who exposed the existence of Soviet missiles in Cuba.
March 18, 2015/by mlong43
Paul Dukes
MI6 officer assigned to spy on Russia utilizing assorted disguises.
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
Roger Hollis
Director General of MI5 who was later accused of being a Soviet agent.
March 19, 2015/by mlong43
Ronald Pelton
American spy convicted of passing NSA signals intelligence information to the KGB.
March 19, 2015/by mlong43
Ruth Kuczynski
German-born Soviet spy who passed atomic secrets and operated a spy ring in China.
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
Sidney Reilly
Russian-born British spy known for his daring exploits and escapes.
March 19, 2015/by mlong43
Ted Hall
American physicist and a Manhattan project spy for the Soviet Union.
March 19, 2015/by mlong43
Velvalee Dickinson
American businesswoman who passed U.S. Naval secrets to the Japanese.
March 20, 2015/by mlong43
Vernon Kell
Founder and first Director General of the British Security Service (MI5).
March 20, 2015/by mlong43
Violette Szabo
SOE operative who reconstituted a French Resistance network.
March 20, 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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