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
- Henry K. Van Rensselaer
- James Armistead Lafayette
- James Rivington
- 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
- Shreenath Pai
- William Bingham
Culper Ring
- Abraham Woodhull
- Agent 355
- Anna Strong
- Benjamin Tallmadge
- Robert Townsend
- Caleb Brewster
- Cato
Spied for the Crown
- Ann Bates
- Benedict Arnold
- Benjamin Church
- Miss Jenny
- Metcalf Bowler
- John André
Double agents
- Edward Bancroft
- John Champe
- Jack McAnany
- Jack January
American Civil War era spies
Union Spies
- Albert D. Richardson
- Charles C. Carpenter
- Elizabeth Van Lew
- 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
- Joseph Baden
- Richard Thomas
- 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
- Arthur Goldberg
- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
- Claire Phillips
- Eric Erickson
- Frederick Mayer
- Fritz Kolbe
- Joan Bondurant
- John Birch
- Martin Quigley, Jr.
- Moe Berg
- Rene Joyeuse
- Richard Sakakida
- Sidney Mashbir
- Sterling Hayden
- William G. Sebold
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
- Agnes Smedley
- Al Sarant
- Alan Nunn May
- Aldrich Ames
- Alexander Koral
- Alexander Ulanovsky
- Alfred Tilton
- Allan Robert Rosenberg
- Anatole Volkov
- Anatoly Gorsky
- Arvid Jacobson
- Bill Weisband
- Boris Morros
- Charles Kramer
- Donald Niven Wheeler
- Donald Heathfield
- Earl Browder
- Elizabeth Zarubina
- Harold Glasser
- Harold Ware
- Harry Dexter White
- Harry Gold
- Harry Magdoff
- Hede Massing
- Herbert Fuchs
- Jacob Golos
- Jane Foster Zlatovski
- John Abt
- John Herrmann
- Julian Wadleigh
- Julius Rosenberg
- Klaus Fuchs
- Lee Pressman
- Louis F. Budenz
- Martha Dodd Stern
- Nathan Gregory Silvermaster
- Nathan Witt
- Nathaniel Weyl
- Noel Field
- Reino Häyhänen
- Robert Hanssen
- Tracey Foley
- Victor Perlo
- Vilyam Genrikhovich Fisher
- Vincent Reno
- Ward Pigman
- Whittaker Chambers
Spied for Vietnam
- David Truong
- Ronald Humphrey
Spied for Israel
- Jonathan Pollard
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 Israel
- Johnathan Pollard
- Stewart Nozette
- Ben-Ami Kadish
Spied on America for Cuba
- Carlos Alvarez
- Elsa Alvarez
- Ana Montes
- Kendall Myers
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
- Kevin Mallory
- 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
Federal Contractors
- Andrew Daulton Lee
- Christopher John Boyce
- Jonathan Pollard
- Stewart Nozette
- Kimberly Tillman