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.

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
 * 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

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

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

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
 * 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

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 Israel

 * Johnathan Pollard
 * Stewart Nozette
 * Ben-Ami Kadish

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

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