List of American spies

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.

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in 1951

Surveillance video frame of Jonathan Pollard in the act of stealing classified documents

American Revolution era spies

Spied for the Patriots

Culper Ring

Spied for the Crown

Double agents

Edward Bancroft
John Champe
Jack McAnany
Jack January

American Civil War era spies

Union Spies

Confederate Spies

American World War One era spies

January 1923 photo of Colonel Sidney Mashbir that was taken while he was living in Japan

American World War Two era spies

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
William Wear
Yosef Amit
Yuri Nosenko
Oleg Penkovsky

Spied for USSR

Spied for Vietnam

Spied for Israel

Jonathan Pollard[11]

Post-Cold War spies

Spied on Iran for America

Shahram Amiri

Spied on Russia for America

Valery Mikhailov[12]
Col. Vladimir Lazar[13]

Spied on America for Russia

The Russian 10 from the Illegals Program - included: Richard and Cynthia Murphy, Juan Lazaro, Vicky Peláez and Anna Chapman[14]

Spied on America for China

Spied on America for Israel

Spied on America for Cuba

Spied on Cuba for America

Rolando Sarraff Trujillo

American Gulf War era spies

April Fool

Americans who spied for foreign countries

CIA

NSA

FBI

Defense Intelligence Agency

Ana Belén Montes[15]

Armed Forces

Federal Contractors

References

Fitzpatrick, John C. 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.
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.
"The day we discovered our parents were Russian spies". 7 May 2016 – via The Guardian.
Jonathan Pollard
4spiritoftruthsays (7 June 2012). "Russian colonel was 'most successful CIA spy' in recent years". intelnews.org.
"Russian colonel convicted of spying for U.S." cbsnews.com.
"FBI: 10 Russian Spies Arrested in U.S." cbsnews.com.
"Ana Montes: Cuban Spy". Federal Bureau of Investigation. Retrieved 2016-12-05.

[1]

Mashbir, Colonel Sidney (2019). I Was an American Spy - 65th Anniversary Edition. California: Horizon Productions. pp. This autobiography is like a course in military intelligence. ISBN 978-0-9903349-9-6.

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[1] Fitzpatrick, John C. The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources 1745-1799 Volume 12 June 1, 1778-September 30, 1778. p. 182. ISBN 162376422X.

[franklin17760708-2] 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.

[3] "Anna Elinor Jones Imprisoned on Confederate Spy Accusations".

[4] Confederate Veteran, Volume 24. S.A. Cunningham, 1916. p. 328.

[5] Swanson, James L., Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer. New York, HarperCollins, 2006, pp.167, 256.

[6] Tonia J. Smith. "Sarah Slater". osu.edu.

[7] Swanson, James L., Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer. New York, HarperCollins, 2006, p. 258f.

[abcnews.go.com-8] Cochran, John (14 August 2008). "Julia Child Dished Out ... Spy Secrets?". abcnews.go.com.

[9] "Swiss-born WWII hero to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery". nydailynews.com. March 11, 2013.

[walker-10] "The day we discovered our parents were Russian spies". 7 May 2016 – via The Guardian.

[11] Jonathan Pollard

[12] 4spiritoftruthsays (7 June 2012). "Russian colonel was 'most successful CIA spy' in recent years". intelnews.org.

[13] "Russian colonel convicted of spying for U.S." cbsnews.com.

[14] "FBI: 10 Russian Spies Arrested in U.S." cbsnews.com.

[15] "Ana Montes: Cuban Spy". Federal Bureau of Investigation. Retrieved 2016-12-05.

[16] Mashbir, Colonel Sidney (2019). I Was an American Spy - 65th Anniversary Edition. California: Horizon Productions. pp. This autobiography is like a course in military intelligence. ISBN 978-0-9903349-9-6.