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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.

American Revolution era spies

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Spied for the Patriots

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  • 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
  • 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
  • William Bingham[2]
  • Culper Ring

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  • Agent 355
  • Anna Strong
  • Austin Roe
  • Benjamin Tallmadge
  • Robert Townsend
  • Sarah Townsend
  • Caleb Brewster
  • Cato
  • James Rivington
  • Jonas Hawkins
  • Spied for the Crown

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  • Benedict Arnold
  • Benjamin Church
  • Miss Jenny
  • Metcalf Bowler
  • John André
  • Double agents

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  • James Armistead Lafayette
  • John Champe
  • American Civil War era spies

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    Union spies

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  • Charles C. Carpenter
  • Elizabeth Van Lew
  • Mary Bowser
  • George Curtis
  • Harriet Tubman
  • Kate Warne
  • Lafayette C. Baker
  • Pauline Cushman
  • Philip Henson
  • Sarah Emma Edmonds
  • Timothy Webster
  • Allan Pinkerton
  • John Scobell
  • Grenville Dodge
  • Hattie Lawton
  • Pryce Lewis
  • Confederate spies

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  • 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
  • Richard Thomas (Zarvona)
  • Sarah Ewing Sims Carter Gaut
  • 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

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  • Marguerite Harrison
  • Sylvanus Morley
  • Sidney Mashbir
  • American World War Two era spies

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  • Arthur Goldberg[8]
  • Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.[8]
  • Claire Phillips
  • Eric Erickson
  • Frederick Mayer
  • Fritz Kolbe
  • Virginia Hall
  • Joan Bondurant
  • John Birch
  • Martin Quigley, Jr.
  • Moe Berg[8]
  • Rene Joyeuse[9]
  • Richard Sakakida
  • Sidney Mashbir
  • Sterling Hayden[8]
  • William G. Sebold
  • Harold Ware
  • American Cold War era spies

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    Spied for America

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  • 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
  • Vitaly Yurchenko
  • Dmitri Polyakov
  • Oleg Gordievsky
  • Adolf Tolkachev
  • Spied for USSR

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  • 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[10]
  • 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[10]
  • 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

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    Spied for Israel

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    Post-Cold War spies

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    Spied on Iran for America

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    Spied on Russia for America

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    Spied on America for Russia

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    Spied on America for China

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    Spied on America for Israel

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    Spied on America for Cuba

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    Spied on America for South Africa

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    Spied on Cuba for America

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    American Gulf War era spies

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    Americans who spied for foreign countries

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    CIA

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  • David Henry Barnett
  • Harold James Nicholson
  • Larry Wu-Tai Chin
  • Sharon M. Scranage
  • William Kampiles
  • NSA

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  • Ronald Pelton
  • FBI

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  • Richard Miller
  • Robert Hanssen
  • Defense Intelligence Agency

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    Armed Forces

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  • John Anthony Walker
  • Morris Cohen
  • George Trofimoff
  • Clyde Lee Conrad
  • Peter Debbins
  • Monica Witt
  • Federal contractors

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  • Christopher John Boyce
  • Jonathan Pollard
  • Stewart Nozette
  • House Committee on Armed Services

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    References

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    1. ^ Fitzpatrick, John C. (January 1939). 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.
  • ^ a b c d 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.
  • ^ a b "The day we discovered our parents were Russian spies". 7 May 2016 – via The Guardian.
  • ^ The Jonathan Pollard Case. http://www.crimelibrary.com/terrorists_spies/spies/pollard/11.html Retrieved August 14, 2014. Archived January 10, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  • ^ 4spiritoftruthsays (7 June 2012). "Russian colonel was 'most successful CIA spy' in recent years". intelnews.org.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  • ^ "Russian colonel convicted of spying for U.S." cbsnews.com.
  • ^ "FBI: 10 Russian Spies Arrested in U.S." cbsnews.com.
  • ^ https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/ex-u-s-ambassador-charged-as-secret-agent-for-cuba-08c06b2f
  • ^ "Ana Montes: Cuban Spy". Federal Bureau of Investigation. Retrieved 2016-12-05.
  • Further reading

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