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
- 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
Double agents
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
- Euphemia Mary Goldsborough Willson
- 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
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
- Ramón Grau
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
Spied for Israel
Post-Cold War spies
Spied on Iran for America
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
Spied on America for Cuba
- Carlos Alvarez
- Elsa Alvarez
- Ana Montes
- Kendall Myers
- Gwendolyn Myers
- Victor Manuel Rocha
- Wasp Network
- Mariano Faget Jr.
Spied on America for South Africa
Spied on Cuba for America
American Gulf War era spies
Americans who spied for foreign countries
CIA
- Aldrich Ames
- David Henry Barnett
- Harold James Nicholson
- Larry Wu-Tai Chin
- Sharon M. Scranage
- William Kampiles
- Tony Mendez
NSA
FBI
Defense Intelligence Agency
Armed Forces
- Clayton John Lonetree
- John Anthony Walker
- Morris Cohen
- George Trofimoff
- Clyde Lee Conrad
- Peter Debbins
- Monica Witt