Ion Mihai Pacepa

Ion Mihai Pacepa

male, 81 years old
Securitate general, From Bucharest, Cold War spy, American intelligence, United States Intelligence Community, Eastern Bloc…spy
Ion Mihai Pacepa is the highest-ranking intelligence official ever to have defected from the former Eastern bloc. He is now an American citizen. In...
Chapman Pincher

Chapman Pincher

male, 95 years old
journalist, British, mi5, spy, Espionage, Daily Express
Henry Chapman Pincher (born March 29, 1914) is a British journalist and novelist whose writing mainly focuses on espionage and related matters. He...

John André

male, deceased (1780)
American Revolutionary War execution, Anglo-French, American, execution, secret agent, From London…spy, American Revolution spy
John André was a British officer hanged as a spy during the American Revolutionary War. This was due to an incident in which he assisted Benedict A...

Perseus

male
national security, PERS, White Sands Missile Range, las cruces, Nuclear secrecy, los alamos national laboratory…spy, Soviet spy, Cold War spy, unknown atomic spy
Perseus was the codename of a possible Soviet spy alleged to have breached U.S. national security at Los Alamos during the Manhattan project. This...
Pauline Cushman

Pauline Cushman

female, deceased (1893)
american civil war, wartime crossdresser, American Civil War spy, Union Army, actor, American…spy
Pauline Cushman (June 10 1833 - December 2 1893) was an American actress, and a spy for the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Rose O'Neal Greenhow

Rose O'Neal Greenhow

female, deceased (1864)
spy, American, american civil war, American Civil War spy, confederacy, Confederate States of America…Confederate spy
Rose O'Neal Greenhow (1817-October 1, 1864) was a renowned Confederate spy. As a leader in Washington, D.C. society during the period prior to the...
Oleg Penkovsky

Oleg Penkovsky

male, deceased (1963)
Vladikavkaz, GRU officer, Cold War spy, soviet, gru, executed…spy
Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky codenamed "Agent Hero" (born April 23, 1919, Vladikavkaz, died May 16, 1963, Soviet Union) was a colonel with Soviet...
Violette Szabo

Violette Szabo

female, deceased (1945)
World War II, Member of the Order of the British Empire, French Resistance member, French, Croix de guerre recipient, Nazi concentration camp victim…World War II spy, wartime spy, spy
Violette Reine Elizabeth Bushell Szabo, G.C., M.B.E., CdG (June 26, 1921 - c.February 5, 1945) was a World War II secret agent. Her wartime...
Bruce Feirstein

Bruce Feirstein

male, 53 years old
vanity fair magazine, the new yorker, Boston University, New York Observer, new yorker, HBO…Spy Magazine, spy
Bruce Feirstein (b. 1956) is a screenwriter and humorist best known for his contributions to the James Bond series, and his best selling humor...
John Ker

John Ker

male, deceased (1726)
Battle of Steenkerque, spy, jacobite, Jacobitism, Scottish, Alexander Crawfurd
John Ker (August 8, 1673 - July 8, 1726) was a Scottish spy during the Jacobite risings. Ker was born in Ayrshire. His true name was Crawfurd, his...