Elizabeth Bentley

Elizabeth Bentley

female, deceased (1963)
Columbia University alumni Anti-communism American from Connecticut Soviet spy communist … Chronology of Soviet secret police agencies
Elizabeth Terrill Bentley (January 1, 1908-November 18, 1963) was an American spy for the Soviet Union from 1938 until 1945. In 1945 she defected... More
Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky

Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky

male, deceased (1926)
Old Bolshevik Cheka polish language communist polish Russian … Chronology of Soviet secret police agencies
Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky (Polish: Feliks Dzierżyński, Russian: Феликс Эдмундович Дзержинский, Belarusian: Фелікс Эдмундавіч Дзяржынскі;... More

Bill Weisband

male, deceased (1967)
soviet death by myocardial infarction Chronology of Soviet secret police agencies Soviet intelligence American Signals Intelligence Service cryptographer
William Weisband (1908-1967) was an American cryptographic code analyst and Soviet NKVD agent (code name 'LINK'), best known for his role in... More

Joseph Katz

male
soviet Chronology of Soviet secret police agencies Soviet intelligence KGB officer Washington D.C. communist party usa
Joseph Katz allegedly worked for Soviet intelligence from the 1930s to the late 1940s as one of its most active liaison agents. Katz was assigned... More

Lev Vasilevsky

female
World War II Manhattan Project Soviet spy Nkvd j. robert oppenheimer kgb … Chronology of Soviet secret police agencies
Lev Vasilevsky, also known as Leonid A. Tarasov, was the KGB Mexico City Illegal Rezident during much of the period of the Manhattan Project. In... More
George Silverman

George Silverman

male
Harvard University code The Pentagon General Secretary codes War Production Board … Chronology of Soviet secret police agencies
Abraham George Silverman graduated from Harvard University and was considered a brilliant mathematician and statistician. In the early days of... More
Nathan Gregory Silvermaster

Nathan Gregory Silvermaster

male, deceased (1964)
front groups “Silvermaster file” Spy rings Economist federal bureau of investigation Cold War … Chronology of Soviet secret police agencies
Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, an economist with the United States War Production Board (WPB) during World War II, was the alleged head of a large... More

Harold Ware

male, deceased (1935)
communist party Jessica Smith American road accident victim Marxist Ware group communist … Chronology of Soviet secret police agencies
Harold Ware was a United States communist and head of the "Ware group", a covert organisation of Communist Party operatives within the United... More
Jones Orin York

Jones Orin York

male
Chronology of Soviet secret police agencies soviet Soviet intelligence Armed Forces Security Agency Northrop Corporation kgb
Jones Orin York was recruited in California by Soviet spy Stanislau Shumovskij approximately in 1935. In 1950 York told the FBI that he had passed... More

Solomon Adler

male, deceased (1994)
Sol Adler American expatriate in China communist British soviet Chronology of Soviet secret police agencies
Solomon Adler (or Sol Adler was born in Great Britain and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1936, when he obtained employment in the United... More