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[1] This is a list of people who have been accused of, or confirmed as working for intelligence organizations of the
Soviet Union and Soviet-aligned countries against the
United States . In some cases accusations are considered well-supported or were otherwise confirmed or admitted, but other cases are controversial or contested.
For more information, see:
Czechoslovakia (StB)
Hungary
Poland
Soviet Union
NKVD and KGB
NKVD
Marion Davis Berdecio , friend of
Judith Coplon and
Flora Wovschin (stepdaughter of
Enos Wicher ) who all became involved in Soviet espionage at
Columbia University
Engelbert Broda , Austrian physicist, a main Soviet source of information on UK and U.S. nuclear research; ex-wife married
Alan Nunn May
[2]
[3]
[4]
Guy Burgess , recruited by Soviets at
Cambridge ;
BBC producer; colleague of
Kim Philby at UK embassy in D.C. before fleeing with
Donald Maclean to USSR; led to major breach in
"Special Relationship" ;
[5] died in Moscow
Boris Bukov , head of apparatus connected to
Whittaker Chambers and
Alger Hiss .
Samuel Dickstein (congressman) , paid informant for Soviet
NKVD
Frederick Vanderbilt Field , scion of
wealthy family , president of
The Harvard Crimson , defended the
Great Purge stating "... because
Comrade
Stalin says so, we have to believe the
trials are just. He has never let us down."
[6]
Isaac Folkoff , senior founding member of the
California Communist Party and West Coast liaison between
Soviet intelligence and the
Communist Party USA (CPUSA)
[7]
[8]
Grigory Kheifets , San Francisco
NKVD station chief or
Rezident
[9]
[10]
George Koval , Iowa-born agent received the
Hero of Russia award from President
Putin for
Manhattan Project infiltration that "drastically reduced the amount of time it took for Russia to develop nuclear weapons"; died in Moscow
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14]
Samuel Krafsur ,
TASS reporter who was mentioned prominently in the
Venona files
Walter Krivitsky , close friend of
Ignace Reiss ; defected to U.S. to escape
Great Purge , associate of
Chambers , shot dead in D.C.
Rudy Lambert , head of
California Communist Party , figured prominently in
AEC revocation of
Oppenheimer 's security clearance
[8]
Maxim Lieber , prominent NYC agent named by
Chambers ; pled the
Fifth , fled to Mexico, Poland
Ludwig Lore , socialist journalist for
New Yorker Volkszeitung and the
New York Post ; recruited agents and gave info to Soviets
Donald Maclean , joined Soviet
NKVD at
Cambridge , diplomat for UK in D.C., main source of info about U.S. energy policy that helped USSR evaluate nuclear arsenal, died in Moscow
Alan Nunn May , UK
physicist , contemporary of
Maclean at
Cambridge ; confessed to giving
Manhattan Project secrets to
USSR which led to
McMahon Act restricting sharing with UK; served 6½ of 10-year hard-labor sentence
[15]
[16]
Isaiah Oggins , friend of
Whittaker Chambers at
Columbia ;
NKVD agent then accused of "
treason " by Soviets and
summarily executed by
Stalin
Alexander Orlov ,
NKVD
rezident in
Republican government during
Spanish Civil War , defected to U.S. to escape Stalin's
Great Purge
Kim Philby ,
OBE , recruited by USSR at
Cambridge , UK intelligence rep in D.C. where he covered for
Guy Burgess at UK embassy; won
Order of Lenin , died in Moscow
Juliet Poyntz , taught at
Columbia , co-founded
Communist Party USA , visited Moscow during Stalin's
Great Purge , returned disillusioned, disappeared in NYC
Vladimir Pravdin , a.k.a. Roland Lyudvigovich Abbiate, UK-born senior
NKVD assassin during
Great Purge , killed defector
Ignace Reiss ; stationed in U.S. as head of
TASS news agency; contacts included
Judith Coplon and
Joseph Katz
Fred Rose (politician) , Canadian
Member of Parliament , led Soviet spies targeting
Manhattan Project exposed by
Igor Gouzenko 's defection; died in Poland
David A. Salmon , operative in
State Dept. and
War Dept.
Marion Schultz , asset of the New York
NKVD working within immigrant community during
World War II
Pavel Sudoplatov , top Soviet spy who accused
Oppenheimer
[17]
William Weisband ,
U.S. Army
signals intelligence staffer and
NKVD agent
handler
KGB
Aldrich Ames ,
CIA officer, started spying for
USSR as walk-in to old
Soviet embassy in D.C. , sentenced to life
Felix Bloch ,
U.S. State Dept. economic officer; Soviets were warned about U.S. investigation into his activities by
Robert Hanssen
[18]
[19]
David Sheldon Boone ,
signals Intelligence analyst at
NSA , sentenced to 24 years for selling info to
USSR
Christopher John Boyce , one of 2 walk-in spies for
USSR known as
the Falcon and the Snowman , sentenced to 40 years before escape, then 28 more
James Hall III , served 22 of 40-year sentence for espionage committed at
NSA station in Germany
Robert P. Hanssen ,
FBI agent given 15 consecutive life sentences; betrayed existence of tunnel under
Soviet embassy in D.C.; may have done most damage since
Kim Philby of
Cambridge Five
Reino Häyhänen , Finn who spied in U.S. handled by
Rudolf Abel , used the
VIC cipher , defected to U.S.
[20]
Clarence Hiskey ,
CPUSA member whose association with
J. Robert Oppenheimer contributed to loss of
security clearance
[21]
Edward Lee Howard , ex-
CIA officer who sold info, subtitled book The Only CIA Operative To Seek Asylum In Russia
Daulton Lee , one of 2 walk-in spies for
USSR known as
the Falcon and the Snowman , sentenced to life
Clayton J. Lonetree ,
U.S. Marine , Moscow embassy guard suborned by female KGB agent; sentenced to life
James Walter Miller , one of
Isaac Folkoff 's most valuable assets at San Francisco
KGB as
government censor
Harold James Nicholson , former
CIA officer twice convicted of
espionage , sentenced to total of 33½ years in
Florence supermax prison
Ronald Pelton ,
NSA analyst, walk-in to old
Soviet embassy in D.C. , sentenced to 3 concurrent life terms
Earl Edwin Pitts , former
FBI special agent arrested at
FBI Academy in
Quantico, Va. , sentenced to 27 years
Norman J. Rees , oil engineer, Soviet agent, then
double agent for
FBI ; committed suicide after exposure by newspaper
[22]
George Trofimoff , most senior U.S. military officer ever charged with espionage, sentenced to life
Arthur Walker , brother of
John Walker , sentenced to 3 life terms + 40 years
John Anthony Walker ,
U.S. Navy
senior enlisted man , spied for
USSR for decades, recruited family and friends, sentenced to 3 life terms
Michael Walker, son of
John Walker , sentenced to life
Joseph Weinberg , KGB contact for Byron Darling; student of
J. Robert Oppenheimer at
Berkeley
[23]
[24]
Jerry Whitworth , sentenced to 365 years for role in
Walker spy ring ,
[25] said to be "most damaging espionage ring uncovered in the U.S. in 3 decades."
[26]
Buben group
Louis F. Budenz , Central Committee of
Communist Party USA , editor of
Daily Worker , professor at
Fordham , then renounced communism
Robert Menaker , operative whose father was imprisoned as a Russian revolutionary and whose niece married
Victor Perlo
Salmond Franklin , a communications "signaler" (sviazist ), married
Sylvia Callen , worked with
Morris Cohen and
Milton Wolff
Sylvia Caldwell , technical secretary for a
Trotskyist group in NYC
Lona Cohen , served 8 of 20-year sentence; died in
Moscow ; subject of
Hugh Whitemore 's drama for stage and TV
Pack of Lies
Morris Cohen , served 8 of 25-year sentence; died in
Moscow ; subject of
Hugh Whitemore 's drama for stage and TV
Pack of Lies
Judith Coplon ,
NKGB counter-intelligence operative in
U.S. Justice Dept. ; two convictions overturned on
Constitutional technicalities
Eugene Dennis , senior member of
Communist Party USA leadership, sentenced to 5 years for advocating overthrow of U.S. government
Dieter Gerhardt ,
South African Navy
commodore who was convicted of spying for
USSR ; alleged that
Vela incident was a joint Israeli–South African
nuclear test
Theodore Hall ,
physicist who supplied high-level info from
Los Alamos during
Manhattan Project , a NYC walk-in, never prosecuted, fled to
Cambridge, UK where he admitted guilt in media interviews
[27]
Clarence Hiskey ,
CPUSA member whose association with
J. Robert Oppenheimer led to loss of
security clearance
Mocase
Boris Morros , Hollywood producer
Jack Soble , sentenced to 7 years, brother of
Robert Soblen
Myra Soble , sentenced to 5½ years
Robert Soblen , sentenced to life for spying at
Sandia Lab , etc., but escaped to
Israel , then committed suicide
Jane Foster Zlatovski , allegedly became member (with husband) of a Soviet espionage ring run by
Jack Soble
[28]
Mark Zborowski , NKVD's most valuable mole inside the
Trotskyist organization in Paris and NYC; served 47-month sentence for perjury
[29]
Victor Perlo , joined
Communist Party USA at
Columbia , then joined series of gov't agencies including
U.S. Treasury Dept. ;
Brookings Institution
Harold Glasser , Director, Division of Monetary Research,
U.S. Treasury Dept. ;
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA);
War Production Board ; Adviser on North African Affairs Committee; U.S. Treasury Representative to the
Allied High Commission in Italy
Alger Hiss , Director of the Office of Special Political Affairs,
U.S. State Dept. , served 3½ years for perjury
Charles Kramer , Senate Subcommittee on War Mobilization;
Office of Price Administration ;
National Labor Relations Board ; Senate Subcommittee on Wartime Health and Education;
Agricultural Adjustment Administration ;
Senate Subcommittee on Civil Liberties ; Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee;
Democratic National Committee (DNC)
Harry Magdoff , Statistical Division of
War Production Board and
Office of Emergency Management ; Bureau of Research and Statistics,
Works Progress Administration ; Tools Division,
War Production Board ; Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce,
U.S. Commerce Dept.
Allen Rosenberg ,
Board of Economic Warfare ; Chief of the Economic Institution Staff,
Foreign Economic Administration ; Senate Subcommittee on Civil Liberties; Senate Committee on Education and Labor;
Railroad Retirement Board ; Counsel to the Secretary of the
NLRB
Redhead group
Rosenberg ring
Joel Barr , met
Julius Rosenberg at
City College of New York (
CCNY ), later spied with him and
Al Sarant at
Army Signal Corps lab in
New Jersey ; escaped prosecution by fleeing to Soviet bloc
Abraham Brothman , served 2 years for conspiring to obstruct justice along with
Miriam Moskowitz ; Brothman gave secret info to
Elizabeth Bentley who turned it over to
USSR
[30]
[31]
Klaus Fuchs ,
physicist who supplied info on UK and U.S.
atomic bomb research to
USSR ; served 9 of 14-year sentence in UK; died in
East Germany
Vivian Glassman , fiancée of
Joel Barr
[32]
Harry Gold , courier sentenced to 30 years
David Greenglass , draftsman at
Los Alamos in World War II, gave atomic bomb documents to his sister
Ethel Rosenberg ; sentenced to 15 years
Ruth Greenglass , escaped prosecution in exchange for her husband's testimony against his sister and brother-in-law,
the Rosenbergs
Miriam Moskowitz , convicted of
obstruction of justice for helping
Harry Gold ; served 2 years in prison,
[33]
[34]
[35] convicted on testimony of
Harry Gold and
Elizabeth Bentley
[36]
William Perl , active in
Young Communist League at
CCNY , then met
Al Sarant at
Columbia ; served 5 years for perjury
Morton Sobell , involved with Barr, Perl and Julius Rosenberg at
CCNY ; sentenced to 30 years at
Alcatraz
Ethel Rosenberg , executed at
Sing Sing prison for conspiracy to commit espionage
Julius Rosenberg , executed at
Sing Sing prison for conspiracy to commit espionage
Al Sarant , stole radar secrets at
Army Signal Corps lab in
New Jersey , then he and his mistress abandoned their families for Soviet bloc
Andrew Roth ,
ONI liaison officer with
U.S. State Dept.
Saville Sax , friend of
Theodore Hall at
Harvard , assisted with Hall's giveaway of
atomic bomb secrets from
Los Alamos to
Soviet mission in NYC
[37]
[38]
Silvermaster group
Nathan Gregory Silvermaster , Chief Planning Technician, Procurement Division,
U.S. Treasury Dept. ; Chief Economist,
War Assets Administration ; Director of the Labor Division,
Farm Security Administration ;
Board of Economic Warfare ;
Reconstruction Finance Corporation ,
U.S. Commerce Dept.
Helen Silvermaster (wife)
Solomon Adler ,
U.S. Treasury Dept. official with
Harry Dexter White ; returned to his native UK to teach at
Cambridge ; joined
Mao 's
government ; died in China
Norman Chandler Bursler,
Justice Dept. Antitrust Division
[39]
[40]
Frank Coe , associate of
Harry Dexter White and
Solomon Adler , named by
Whittaker Chambers and
Elizabeth Bentley as a source of information for Silvermaster and
Ware Group ; Coe took the
Fifth many times; later joined Mao's government for the
Great Leap Forward , died in
red China
Lauchlin Currie , Administrative Assistant to
FDR ; Deputy Administrator of
Foreign Economic Administration ; Special Representative to China
Bela Gold , Assistant Head of Program Surveys,
Bureau of Agricultural Economics ,
USDA ; Senate Subcommittee on War Mobilization; Office of Economic Programs in
Foreign Economic Administration
Sonia Steinman Gold , Division of Monetary Research,
U.S. Treasury Dept. ;
U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Interstate Migration; U.S. Bureau of Employment Security
Irving Kaplan , Foreign Funds Control and Division of Monetary Research,
U.S. Treasury Dept. ,
Foreign Economic Administration ; chief adviser to the
Occupation Government in Germany
George Silverman , civilian Chief Production Specialist, Material Division,
U.S. Army Air Forces Air Staff,
Department of War ,
Pentagon
William Henry Taylor , Assistant Director of the Middle East Division of Monetary Research,
U.S. Treasury Dept.
William Ullman , delegate to
United Nations Charter meeting and
Bretton Woods conference ; Division of Monetary Research,
U.S. Treasury Dept. ; Material and Services Division, Air Corps Headquarters, Pentagon
Anatole Volkov , courier for the
Silvermaster group
Harry Dexter White ,
U.S. Treasury official , collaborated with
Solomon Adler ,
Frank Coe and
Harold Glasser on failed loan program for
Nationalist government of
China ;
[41] head of
IMF which he helped create along with
UN and
World Bank
[42]
[43]
Sound and Myrna groups
Solomon Adler ,
U.S. Treasury Dept. official with
Harry Dexter White ;
[44] returned to his native UK to teach at
Cambridge ; joined
Mao 's
government ; died in China
Cedric Belfrage , journalist; referenced as a Soviet agent in
Venona project , although he may have been working as a double-agent for
British Security Coordination
Elizabeth Bentley courier messenger for Communist spy rings on the
East Coast , testified about her activities in hearings
Frank Coe , Assistant Director, Division of Monetary Research,
U.S. Treasury Dept. ; Special Assistant to the U.S. Ambassador in London; Assistant to the Executive Director,
Board of Economic Warfare ; Assistant Administrator,
Foreign Economic Administration
Lauchlin Currie , Administrative Assistant to
President Roosevelt ; Deputy Administrator of
Foreign Economic Administration ; Special Representative to China
Rae Elson , courier of
Communist Party USA underground, was chosen by
Joseph Katz to replace
Elizabeth Bentley at the Soviet front organization, U.S. Shipping & Service Corp.
Edward Fitzgerald ,
War Production Board
Charles Flato ,
Board of Economic Warfare ; Civil Liberties Subcommittee, Senate Committee on Education and Labor
Bela Gold , Bureau of Intelligence, Assistant Head of Program Surveys,
Bureau of Agricultural Economics ,
USDA ; Senate Subcommittee on War Mobilization; Office of Economic Programs in
Foreign Economic Administration
Sonia Steinman Gold , Division of Monetary Research,
U.S. Treasury Dept. ;
U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Interstate Migration; U.S. Bureau of Employment Security
Irving Goldman ,
Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs
Jacob Golos , "main pillar" of the
NKVD intelligence network in U.S., died in the arms of
Elizabeth Bentley
Gerald Graze , United States
Civil Service Commission ;
Dept. of Defense ,
U.S. Navy official
Maurice Halperin , Chief of Latin American Division, Research and Analysis section,
OSS ;
U.S. State Dept.
Julius Joseph , Far Eastern section (Japanese Intelligence)
OSS
Irving Kaplan ,
U.S. Treasury Dept.
Foreign Economic Administration ;
UN Division of Economic Stability and Development; Chief Adviser to the
Military Government of Germany
Joseph Katz , part of
NKGB mission recruiting members of
Communist Party USA .
Duncan Lee , counsel to General
William Donovan , head of
OSS
Helen Lowry , Soviet citizen born and raised in U.S., niece of
Earl Browder ; wife of
Iskhak Akhmerov
Harry Magdoff , Chief of the Control Records Section of
War Production Board and
Office of Emergency Management ; Bureau of Research and Statistics,
Works Progress Administration ; Tools Division,
War Production Board ;
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce ,
U.S. Commerce Dept. ; Statistics Division
WPA
Jenny Levy Miller , Chinese Government Purchasing Commission
Robert Miller , Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs; Near Eastern Division,
State Dept.
Willard Park , Assistant Chief of the Economic Analysis Section,
Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs ;
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Victor Perlo , chief of the Aviation Section of the
War Production Board ; head of branch in Research Section,
Office of Price Administration ,
Dept. of Commerce ; Division of Monetary Research,
U.S. Treasury Dept. ;
Brookings Institution , head of
Perlo group
Mary Price , stenographer for
Walter Lippmann of the
New York Herald
William Remington ,
War Production Board ;
Office of Emergency Management , convicted for perjury, killed in prison
Ruth Rivkin ,
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration , a source for Golos-Bentley network of spies
Allan Rosenberg ,
Board of Economic Warfare ; Chief of the Economic Institution Staff,
Foreign Economic Administration ; Civil Liberties Subcommittee, Senate Committee on Education and Labor;
Railroad Retirement Board ; Counsel to the Secretary of the
NLRB
Bernard Schuster
[45]
Greg Silvermaster , Chief Planning Technician, Procurement Division,
U.S. Treasury Dept. ; Chief Economist,
War Assets Administration ; Director of the Labor Division,
Farm Security Administration ;
Board of Economic Warfare ;
Reconstruction Finance Corporation ,
U.S. Commerce Dept.
John Spivak , journalist, exposé in the
New Masses charged
McCormack -
Dickstein Committee with suppressing evidence in
Business Plot hearings
William Taylor , Assistant Director of Monetary Research,
U.S. Treasury Dept.
Helen Tenney ,
OSS
Lud Ullman , delegate to
United Nations Charter meeting and
Bretton Woods conference ; Division of Monetary Research,
U.S. Treasury Dept. ; Material and Services Division,
U.S. Army Air Corps Headquarters, Pentagon
David Weintraub , U.S.
State Dept. ; head of the
Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations ;
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA); United Nations Division of Economic Stability and Development
Donald Wheeler ,
OSS Research and Analysis division
Anatoly Gorsky , (Anatoly Veniaminovich Gorsky, A. V. Gorsky), "Vadim", former
rezident of the
MGB
USSR in Washington
Olga Pravdina , former employee of the Ministry of Trade, wife of "Sergei," the rezident in New York; author of Gorsky Memo (see
Vladimir Pravdin )
[46]
Vladimir Pravdin , "Sergei",
TASS , former rezident of the
MGB
USSR in New York
Mikhail A. Shaliapin [Shalyapin], "Stock" ["Shtok"]
[47]
Gaik Badelovich Ovakimian , former rezident of the
MGB
USSR in New York
Iskhak Abdulovich Akhmerov , "Albert" – former
Illegal Rezident of the
MGB
USSR in New York
Michael Straight , speechwriter for
FDR
Ware group
Whittaker Chambers ,
U.S. State Dept. , testified against
Alger Hiss
Henry Collins ,
NRA ;
USDA
John Herrmann ,
Communist Party USA operative and courier, eventually drank himself to death in
Jalisco, Mexico
Alger Hiss ,
U.S. State Dept. , sentenced to 5 years for
perjury
Donald Hiss ,
U.S. State Dept. , younger brother of
Alger Hiss
Victor Perlo , became spymaster of
Perlo group during
World War II
George Silverman ,
Harvard -educated statistician who gave secret
Pentagon documents to
Nathan Silvermaster group during
World War II
Harry Dexter White , Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury , head of the
IMF which he helped establish along with the
World Bank ; highest placed Soviet asset in U.S. government
[48]
Bill Weisband , U.S.
Army Signals Security Agency
Nathaniel Weyl , joined
Communist Party USA with
Perlo at
Columbia , confessed to espionage in Senate hearings
Enos Wicher , professor at
Columbia University who also worked at
Columbia's Division of War Research ; stepfather of Columbia recruiter and
State Department spy
Flora Wovschin
The "Berg" – "Art" Group
GRU (Soviet military intelligence)
Karl group
Noel Field , entered State Dept. from
Harvard , associate of
Paul Massing , exposed by
Whittaker Chambers testimony, arrested and tortured 5 years on Soviet orders, died in Hungary
Harold Glasser , Director, Division of Monetary Research,
U.S. Treasury Dept. ;
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration ;
War Production Board ; Adviser on North African Affairs Committee; U.S. Treasury Representative to the
Allied High Commission in
Italy
Alger Hiss ,
U.S. State Dept. ; sentenced to 5 years for perjury
Donald Hiss ,
State Dept. ;
Labor Dept. ;
Interior Dept. , convicted of perjury
Victor Perlo , chief of the Aviation Section of the
War Production Board ; head of branch in Research Section,
Office of Price Administration ,
Commerce Dept. ; Division of Monetary Research,
U.S. Treasury Dept. ;
Brookings Institution , head of
Perlo group
J. Peters , a.k.a. Sándor Goldberger, leading figure of the
Hungarian language section of the
Communist Party USA in the 1920s and 1930s.
William Ward Pigman ,
National Bureau of Standards ; Labor and Public Welfare Committee
Vincent Reno , mathematician at U.S. Army's
Aberdeen Proving Ground
George Silverman , Director of the Bureau of Research and Information Services, U.S.
Railroad Retirement Board ; Economic Adviser and Chief of Analysis and Plans, Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Material and Services,
War Dept.
Julian Wadleigh ,
U.S. State Dept. , passed documents to Soviets via
Whittaker Chambers in D.C.
Harry Dexter White ,
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury with
Solomon Adler and
Frank Coe , head of
IMF ; considered highest USSR agent in U.S. gov't
Viktor Vasilevish Sveshchnikov ,
U.S. War Dept.
Portland ring
Sorge ring
Chen Han-seng , spied for Moscow, mistreated in native China during
Cultural Revolution
Hotsumi Ozaki , journalist, only Japanese person hanged for
treason during
WW2
Agnes Smedley , journalist, friend of
Richard Sorge
Lydia Stahl , photographer, sentenced to 4 years in France
Joseph Benjamin Stenbuck , leading Manhattan surgeon, accused of being a dead drop
Irving Charles Velson ,
Brooklyn Navy Yard ;
American Labor Party candidate for
New York State Senate
Flora Wovschin ,
NKVD operative in
U.S. State Dept. , stepdaughter of
Enos Wicher , friend of
Marion Davis Berdecio and
Judith Coplon from
Columbia
Vasily Zarubin , husband of
Elizabeth Zubilin
Elizabeth Zubilin , recruiter in U.S. of whom
Pavel Sudoplatov , head of
NKVD Fourth Directorate said, "In developing
J. Robert Oppenheimer as a source, Elizabeth Zubilin was essential."
Naval GRU
Moishe Stern , gained fame under his
nom de guerre as General Kléber of
International Brigade during
Spanish Civil War .
Alfred Tilton , Latvian head of
GRU in U.S., arrested by Soviets during
Great Purge , sentenced to 15 years, died in
Gulag
Alexander Ulanovsky , a.k.a. Bill Berman, Felik, Long Man, Nathan Sherman, chief
Illegal
rezident for
GRU in U.S., then prisoner in Soviet
Gulag with his family
Ignacy Witczak ,
GRU
Illegal officer in U.S. during
World War II
[50]
Others
Arthur Adams , Swedish-born
Hero of Russia , gave
Manhattan Project information to the
USSR , died in Moscow.
Arvid Jacobson , Detroit teacher vetted by
Whittaker Chambers , sentenced to 6 years in Finland, returned to the United States.
George Koval , previously unknown Soviet agent whose infiltration of the
Manhattan Project "drastically reduced the amount of time it took for Russia to develop nuclear weapons";
[11] posthumously honored by
Russian President
Vladimir Putin .
[51]
Irving Lerner ,
GRU agent handled by
Arthur Adams , caught spying at the
University of California, Berkeley .[
citation needed ]
Alexander Orlov , a.k.a. Leiba Lazarevich Feldbin,
NKVD
rezident in the
Republican government during the
Spanish Civil War , defected to the United States.
Milton Schwartz , American who spied for Soviet military intelligence (
GRU ).
See also
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