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List of American spies
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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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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
- Filippo Mazzei
- Henry K. Van Rensselaer
- John Brown of Pittsfield
- John Champe
- John Clark
- John Honeyman
- John Laurens
- Jonathan L. Austin
- Lydia Darrah
- Paul Revere
- Pierre Ayotte
- Silas Deane
- Van Rensselaer's Regiment
- William Bingham[2]
Culper Ring
Spied for the Crown
Double agents
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American Civil War era spies
Union spies
Confederate spies
- Alexander Keith, Jr.
- Annie Jones[citation needed]
- Antonia Ford
- Belle Boyd
- Confederate Signal Bureau
- David Owen Dodd
- Dr. William Joseph Heacker[3]
- Henry Thomas Harrison
- James Dunwoody Bulloch
- John Yates Beall
- Richard Thomas (Zarvona)
- Sarah Ewing Sims Carter Gaut
- Euphemia Mary Goldsborough Willson
- Rose O'Neal Greenhow
- Sarah Slater[4][5]
- Thomas A. Jones
- Thomas Harbin[6]
- Thomas Jordan
- Virginia Bethel Moon
- William Bryant
- William Norris
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American World War One era spies
American World War Two era spies
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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
- Yosef Amit
- Yuri Nosenko
- Oleg Penkovsky
- Valery Martinov
- Vitaly Yurchenko
- Dmitri Polyakov
- Oleg Gordievsky
- Adolf Tolkachev
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
- Arthur Adams
- Arvid Jacobson
- Bela Gold
- Bill Weisband
- Boris Morros
- Charles Kramer
- David Greenglass
- Donald Niven Wheeler
- Donald Heathfield[9]
- Earl Browder
- Elizabeth Zarubina
- Frank Coe
- George Koval
- George Silverman
- Harold Glasser
- Harry Dexter White
- Harry Gold
- Harry Magdoff
- Hede Massing
- Helen Silvermaster
- Herbert Fuchs
- Irving Kaplan
- Irving Lerner
- Jacob Golos
- Jane Foster Zlatovski
- John Abt
- John Herrmann
- John Anthony Walker
- Julian Wadleigh
- Juliet Stuart Poyntz
- Julius Rosenberg
- Ethel Rosenberg
- Klaus Fuchs
- Lauchlin Currie
- Lee Pressman
- Lona Cohen
- Louis F. Budenz
- Martha Dodd Stern
- Michael Lance Walker, son of John Anthony Walker
- Morris Cohen
- Morton Sobell
- Nathan Gregory Silvermaster
- Nathan Witt
- Nathaniel Weyl
- Noel Field
- Reino Häyhänen
- Robert Hanssen
- Russell Alton McNutt
- Saville Sax
- Solomon Adler aka Schlomer Adler
- Sonia Steinman Gold
- Theodore Hall
- Tracey Foley[9]
- Victor Perlo
- Vilyam Genrikhovich Fisher
- Vincent Reno
- Ward Pigman
- Whittaker Chambers
- William Henry Taylor
- William August Fisher aka Adolf Ivanovich Abel
- William "Lud" Ullman
Spied for Vietnam
Spied for Israel
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Post-Cold War spies
Spied on Iran for America
Spied on Russia 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[13]
Spied on America for China
Spied on America for Cuba
Spied on America for South Africa
Spied on Cuba for America
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American Gulf War era spies
Americans who spied for foreign countries
CIA
NSA
FBI
Defense Intelligence Agency
Armed Forces
Federal contractors
House Committee on Armed Services
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References
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