Category
page 1Double agents
Mata Hari
Dutch exotic dancer, courtesan and spy (1876-1917)
Kim Philby
KGB mole for the Soviet Union (1912–1988)
Cambridge Five
former ring of spies in the United Kingdom
Sergei Skripal
Soviet military intelligence officer convicted of spying for the United Kingdom
Aldrich Ames
CIA analyst and Soviet spy (1941–2026)

Robert Hanssen
FBI agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services (1944–2023)

Oleg Penkovsky
British spy in the USSR (1919–1963)
double agent
type of special intelligence service

George Blake
British spy, a double agent in the service of the Soviet Union

Oleg Gordievsky
colonel of the KGB
Joan Pujol García
Spanish spy, double agent for the British in World War II

Sidney Reilly
Russian-born adventurer and secret agent (1873–1925)
Donald Maclean
British diplomat and spy (1913–1983)
Yevno Azef
Russian revolutionary (1869–1918)
Jerzy Pawłowski
Polish fencer and double agent (1932–2005)
Duško Popov
Serbian double agent (1912–1981)
John Cairncross
British intelligence officer and spy for the Soviet Union (1913-1995)
Eddie Chapman
English spy (1914–1997)
Șerban I Cantacuzino, Prince of Wallachia
Prince of Wallachia from 1678 to 1688
Vladimir Vetrov
Soviet spy for France (1932-1985)
Paul Thümmel
German counterintelligence agent (1902–1945)
Pavlo Shandruk
Ukrainian military officer (1889–1979)
Joan March
Spanish banker and philanthropist (1880-1962)
Heinz Felfe
Soviet double agent (1918–2008)
Christiaan Lindemans
Dutch double agent (1912-1946)
Edward Lee Howard
CIA officer
James Armistead Lafayette
African American double agent for American rebels in the American Revolutionary War
Alexander Solonik
Russian mobster (1960–1997)
Karl Schulmeister
Napoleon spy from Prussia (1770-1853)
Auguste Charlotte von Kielmannsegge
napoleon's secret agent

James Klugmann
British writer (1912–1977)

Mathilde Carré
French resistance agent (1908-2007)
Harold James Nicholson
American spy
Mikel Lejarza
Spanish spy
Marthe Cnockaert
Belgian nurse and British spy (1892-1966)
Vera von Schalburg
Soviet, German and British agent and sister of Christian Frederik von Schalburg (1907-1946)
Gheorghe Pintilie
Russian-born Romanian communist activist and intelligence officer
Manucher Ghorbanifar
Iranian arms trader
Edward Bancroft
British naturalist and chemist (1745-1821) (1745 in New-Style dating)
Lev Zadov
Ukrainian intelligence officer (1893–1938)
Ali Mohamed
American spy
Gabriele Gast
German intelligence officer
Johnny Jebsen
Double agent for the British in World War II
William G. Sebold
FBI double agent (1900–1970)
Hilde Purwin
German journalist (1919–2010)
Ilie Cătărău
Romanian political adventurer
Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi
Jordanian doctor and suicide bomber (1977–2009)
Toivo Vähä
Finnish–Soviet intelligence officer (1901–1984)

Radu Lecca
Romanian spy
Freddie Scappaticci
PIRA member; purported double agent

Matei Pavel Haiducu
Romanian spy (1948-1998)
Arkady Harting
Russian Empire spy
Earl Edwin Pitts
FBI agent who spied for Soviet Union intelligence services
Roman Czerniawski
Major of the Polish Army, reverse double agent on SOE duty (1910-1985)
Gian Francesco Biondi
Croatian-Italian diplomat and writer
Petrus Alamirus
Belgian music copyist, music trader, singer and composer (1470-1536)