# 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.

## American Revolution era spies
### Spied for the Patriots

* Hercules Mulligan
* Abraham Woodhull
* Benjamin Edes
* Nathan Hale
* Benjamin Tallmadge
* Caleb Brewster
* William H. Dobbs (Captain)
* 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

#### Culper Ring

* Abraham Woodhull
* Agent 355
* Anna Strong
* Austin Roe
* Benjamin Tallmadge
* Robert Townsend
* Sarah Townsend
* Caleb Brewster
* Cato
* James Rivington
* Jonas Hawkins

### Spied for the Crown

* Ann Bates
* Benedict Arnold
* Benjamin Church
* Miss Jenny
* Metcalf Bowler
* John André

### Double agents

* Edward Bancroft
* James Armistead Lafayette
* John Champe

## American Civil War era spies
### Union spies

* Albert D. Richardson
* 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

* Alexander Keith, Jr.
* Annie Jones
* Antonia Ford
* Belle Boyd
* Confederate Signal Bureau
* David Owen Dodd
* Dr. William Joseph Heacker
* Henry Thomas Harrison
* James Dunwoody Bulloch
* John Yates Beall
* Richard Thomas (Zarvona)
* Sarah Ewing Sims Carter Gaut
* Rose O'Neal Greenhow
* Sarah Slater
* Thomas A. Jones
* Thomas Harbin
* Thomas Jordan
* Virginia Bethel Moon
* William Bryant
* William Norris

## American World War One era spies

* Julius Klein
* Marguerite Harrison
* Sylvanus Morley
* Sidney Mashbir

## American World War Two era spies

* Amy Elizabeth Thorpe
* Arthur Goldberg
* Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
* Claire Phillips
* Eric Erickson
* Frederick Mayer
* Fritz Kolbe
* Virginia Hall
* Joan Bondurant
* John Birch
* Martin Quigley, Jr.
* Moe Berg
* Rene Joyeuse
* Richard Sakakida
* Sidney Mashbir
* Sterling Hayden
* William G. Sebold
* Harold Ware

## 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
* 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
* 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

* David Truong
* Ronald Humphrey

### Spied for Israel

* Jonathan Pollard
* Ben-Ami Kadish

## Post-Cold War spies
### Spied on Iran for America

* Shahram Amiri

### Spied on Russia for America

* Valery Mikhailov
* Col. Vladimir Lazar

### Spied on America for Russia

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

### Spied on America for China

* Katrina Leung
* Chi Mak
* Glenn Duffie Shriver
* Noshir Gowadia

### Spied on America for Cuba

* Carlos Alvarez
* Elsa Alvarez
* Ana Montes
* Kendall Myers
* Gwendolyn Myers
* Victor Manuel Rocha (US ambassador)
* Wasp Network

### Spied on America for South Africa

* Theresa Squillacote

### Spied on Cuba for America

* Rolando Sarraff Trujillo

## American Gulf War era spies

* April Fool

## Americans who spied for foreign countries
### CIA

* Aldrich Ames
* David Henry Barnett
* Harold James Nicholson
* Larry Wu-Tai Chin
* Sharon M. Scranage
* William Kampiles

### NSA

* David Sheldon Boone
* Ronald Pelton

### FBI

* Earl Edwin Pitts
* Richard Miller
* Robert Hanssen

### Defense Intelligence Agency

* Ana Belén Montes

### Armed Forces

* Clayton John Lonetree
* John Anthony Walker
* Morris Cohen
* George Trofimoff
* Clyde Lee Conrad
* Peter Debbins
* Monica Witt

### Federal contractors

* Andrew Daulton Lee
* Christopher John Boyce
* Jonathan Pollard
* Stewart Nozette

### House Committee on Armed Services

* Theresa Squillacote