Genrikh Yagoda

Genrikh Yagoda

male, deceased (1938)
Genrikh Grigor'evich Yagoda (born Yenokh (Enoch) Gershonovich Ieguda ; ; 1891 - March 15 1938) was the head of the NKVD, the Soviet secret police,...
Kim Philby

Kim Philby

male, deceased (1988) (Los Angeles, California, United States)
Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby or H.A.R. Philby, (1 January, 1912 – 11 May, 1988) was a high-ranking member of British intelligence, a co...
Nikolai Yezhov

Nikolai Yezhov

male, deceased (1940)
Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov was a senior figure in the NKVD (the Soviet secret police) during the period of the Great Purge. His reign is sometimes...
Pavel Sudoplatov

Pavel Sudoplatov

male, deceased (1996)
Pavel Sudoplatov was a member of the intelligence services of the Soviet Union who rose to the rank of lieutenant general. He was involved in...
Richard Sorge

Richard Sorge

male, deceased (1944)
Richard Sorge (Russian: Рихард Зорге) (October 4, 1895 - November 7, 1944) is considered to have been one of the best Soviet spies in Japan befor...
Lavrentiy Beria

Lavrentiy Beria

male, deceased (1953)
Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (Georgian: ლავრენტი ბერია, Lavrenti Pavles dze Beria; Russian: Лаврентий Павлович Берия; 29 March, 1899 – 23...
Alexander Orlov

Alexander Orlov

male, deceased (1973)
Alexander Mikhailovich Orlov (Leiba Lazarevich Felbing,) (21 August 1895-25 March 1973) was a Soviet espionage administrator. He defected to the...

Ramón Mercader

male, deceased (1978)
Jaume Ramon Mercader del Rio Hernández was a Spanish Communist who became famous as the murderer of Leon Trotsky. Some allege he was a Soviet a...
Christian Rakovsky

Christian Rakovsky

male, deceased (1941)
Christian Rakovsky was a Bulgarian-born socialist revolutionary, a Bolshevik politician and Soviet diplomat; he was also noted as a journalist,...
Harry Gold

Harry Gold

male, deceased (1974)
Harry Gold (December 12, 1910-1974) was a laboratory chemist who was convicted of being the "courier" for a number of Soviet spy rings during the...