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List of Soviet agents in the United States

This is a list of spies who worked for the Soviet Union and other Communist countries in the United States. The list is based on categorization of spies by nationality.

Contents

[edit] China, People's Republic of

[edit] Cuba

[edit] Czechoslovakia (StB)

[edit] East Germany (Stasi) excluding 100.000 "IM"

[edit] Hungary

[edit] Poland

  • Marian Zacharski - Polish Intelligence officer arrested in 1981 Among other things, he won access to material on the then-new Patriot and Phoenix missiles, the enhanced version of the Hawk air-to-air missile, radar instrumentation for the F-15 fighter, "stealth radar" for the B-1 and Stealth bomber, an experimental radar system being tested by the U.S. Navy, and submarine sonar.

[edit] Romania

  • Silvia Patrulescu Romanian Intelligence officier during the Cold War. Current status unknown.

[edit] Soviet Union

[edit] NKVD and KGB

[edit] The “Berg” – “Art” Group
    • Alexander Koral, former engineer of the municipality of New York.
    • Helen Koral, Berg’s wife, housewife.
    • Richard Koral, son, student.
    • Norman Hite, engineer for the firm “Sperry Gyroscope Company” in New Jersey.
    • Elliot Goldberg, engineer for an oil equipment company in New York.
    • Byron T. Darling, engineer for the Rubber Company. [1]
    • Emma Phillips, housewife.
    • Sylvia Koral, former secretary of the code section, Office of War Information.
    • Eduardo Pekino, businessman in Caracas, Venezuela.
    • Richard Setaro, journalist/writer, former employee of the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBC), in Buenos Aires.
    • A. Slavianin
    • S. M. Semenov [Semyonov], rezident, technical intelligence for the KI in Paris
    • A. A. Yatskov
    • O. V. Shimmel
    • K. A. Chugunov
  • George Blake, UK SIS officer who betrayed existence of the Berlin Tunnel under the Soviet sector and who probably betrayed Popov
  • Felix Bloch, U.S. State Department economic officer in Vienna (1981) probably blackmailed by Soviets into supplying information; not prosecuted quite likely because Robert Hanssen warned Soviets about the investigation into him
  • Christopher John Boyce and Daulton Lee - American walk-in spies for the Soviet Union known as the Falcon and the Snowman

[edit] Buben group
  • Louis F. Budenz, former member of the Central Committee of the CPUSA, former editor of the newspaper Daily Worker, professor at Fordham Catholic University.
  • Robert Menaker, commercial traveler (traveling salesman) to a variety of trade firms
  • Frank Palmer, Place of employment unknown. Former member of the CPUSA, broke with the Communist Party in 1937; “Buben” was recruited with his assistance
  • Salmond Franklin, without specific assignments, husband of “Rita.” Used as a “signaler” [Russian: sviazist = communications man]
  • Sylvia Caldwell, technical secretary for a Trotskyist group in New York.
  • Harry Rabinovich

[edit] Mocase

[edit] Perlo group

[edit] Redhead group
  • Hedwiga Gompertz, Wacek’s wife, sent to the U.S. in 1938 to carry out fieldwork assignments, defected in 1948
  • Paul Massing, scientist at Columbia University’s Institute of Social Research. Defected.
  • Oscar Bernstein, lawyer, used for organizing covers for our workers in the U.S.
  • Laurence Duggan (aka 19th), former employee of the State Department. Suicide.
  • Gerta Frankfurter
  • Franz Leopold Neumann, former consultant in the Department of Research and Analysis of the OSS
  • Elizaveta Yulyevna Zarubina

[edit] Rosenberg ring

[edit] Silvermaster group
    • Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, Chief Planning Technician, Procurement Division, United States Department of the Treasury; Chief Economist, War Assets Administration; Director of the Labor Division, Farm Security Administration; Board of Economic Warfare; Reconstruction Finance Corporation Department of Commerce
    • Helen Silvermaster (wife)
    • Schlomer Adler, United States Department of the Treasury
    • Norman Chandler Bursler, United States Department of Justice Anti-Trust Division
    • Frank Coe, Assistant Director, Division of Monetary Research, Treasury Department; Special Assistant to the United States 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
    • Bela Gold, Assistant Head of Program Surveys, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, Agriculture Department; Senate Subcommittee on War Mobilization; Office of Economic Programs in Foreign Economic Administration
    • Sonia Steinman Gold, Division of Monetary Research U.S. Treasury Department; 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, United States Department of the Treasury Foreign Economic Administration; chief advisor to the Military Government of Germany
    • George Silverman, civilian Chief Production Specialist, Material Division, United States Army Air Forces Air Staff, War Department, Pentagon
    • William Henry Taylor, Assistant Director of the Middle East Division of Monetary Research, United States Department of Treasury
    • William Ullman, delegate to United Nations Charter meeting and Bretton Woods conference; Division of Monetary Research, Department of Treasury; Material and Services Division, Air Corps Headquarters, Pentagon
    • Anatole Volkov
    • Harry Dexter White, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; Head of the International Monetary Fund
  • Helen Levi Simon, columnist for the Daily Worker
  • Alfred Slack

[edit] Sound and Myrna groups
    • Solomon Adler, United States Department of the Treasury
    • Cedric Belfrage, journalist; British Security Coordination
    • Elizabeth Bentley courier messenger for Communist spy rings on the American East Coast in the 30s, testified about her activities in hearings in the 40s and 50s
    • Frank Coe, Assistant Director, Division of Monetary Research, Treasury Department; Special Assistant to the United States 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, an active Communist, and courier of the CPUSA underground, was chosen by Joseph Katz to replace Bentley at the Soviet front organization, U.S. Shipping and Service Corporation.
    • Frederick V. Field, Executive Secretary American Peace Mobilization
    • Edward Fitzgerald, War Production Board
    • Charles Flato, Board of Economic Warfare; Civil Liberties Subcommittee, Senate Committee on Education and Labor
    • Eva Getzov, Jewish Welfare Board
    • Bela Gold, Bureau of Intelligence, Assistant Head of Program Surveys, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, Agriculture Department; Senate Subcommittee on War Mobilization; Office of Economic Programs in Foreign Economic Administration
    • Sonia Steinman Gold, Division of Monetary Research U.S. Treasury Department; 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, the "main pillar" of the NKVD intelligence network in the U.S., died in the arms of comrade Elizabeth Bentley
    • Gerald Graze, United States Civil Service Commission; Department of Defense, U.S. Navy official
    • Stanley Graze, United States Department of State intelligence
    • Michael Greenberg, Board of Economic Warfare; Administrative Division, Enemy Branch, Foreign Economic Administration; United States Department of State
    • Joseph Gregg, Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs; United States Department of State
    • Maurice Halperin, Chief of Latin American Division, Research and Analysis section, Office of Strategic Services; United States Department of State
    • Julius Joseph, Far Eastern section (Japanese Intelligence) Office of Strategic Services
    • Irving Kaplan, United States Department of the Treasury Foreign Economic Administration; United Nations Division of Economic Stability and Development; Chief Advisor to the Military Government of Germany
    • Joseph Katz
    • 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; Civil Liberties Subcommittee, Senate Committee on Education and Labor; Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee; Democratic National Committee
    • Duncan Lee, counsel to General William Donovan, head of Office of Strategic Services
    • Bernice Levin, Office of Emergency Management; Office of Production Management
    • Helen Lowry, (Elza Akhmerova), Akhmerov wife, American-born and raised, Soviet citizen
    • Harry Magdoff, Chief of the Control Records Section of War Production Board and Office of Emergency Management; Bureau of Research and Statistics, WTB; Tools Division, War Production Board; Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, United States Department of Commerce; Statistics Division Works Progress Administration
    • Jenny Levy Miller, Chinese Government Purchasing Commission
    • Robert Miller, Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs; Near Eastern Division United States Department of State
    • 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 Department of Commerce; Division of Monetary Research Department of Treasury; Brookings Institution, head of Perlo group
    • Mary Price, stenographer for Walter Lippmann of the New York Herald
    • Bernard Redmont, head of the Foreign News Bureau Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs
    • William Remington, War Production Board; Office of Emergency Management, convicted for perjury, killed in prison
    • Ruth Rivkin, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
    • 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; Councel to the Secretary of the National Labor Relations Board
    • Bernard Schuster
    • Greg Silvermaster, Chief Planning Technician, Procurement Division, United States Department of the Treasury; Chief Economist, War Assets Administration; Director of the Labor Division, Farm Security Administration; Board of Economic Warfare; Reconstruction Finance Corporation Department of Commerce
    • John Spivak, journalist
    • William Taylor, Assistant Director of Monetary Research, United States Department of Treasury
    • Helen Tenney, Office of Strategic Services
    • Lee Tenney, Balkan Division Office of Strategic Services
    • Lud Ullman, delegate to United Nations Charter meeting and Bretton Woods conference; Division of Monetary Research, Department of Treasury; Material and Services Division, Air Corps Headquarters, Pentagon
    • David Weintraub, United States Department of State; 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, Office of Strategic Services Research and Analysis division
    • Anatoly Gorsky, (Anatoly Veniaminovich Gorsky, A. V. Gorsky), “Vadim”, former rezident of the MGB USSR in Washington
    • Olga Pravdin, former employee of the Ministry of Trade, wife of “Sergei,” the rezident in New York; author of Gorsky Memo
    • Vladimir Pravdin, “Sergei”, Tass, former rezident of the MGB USSR in New York
    • Mikhail A. Shaliapin [Shalyapin], “Stock” [“Shtok”]
    • 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
  • Arthur Gerald Steinberg, United States Office of Scientific Research and Development
  • Michael Straight, speechwriter for President Franklin Roosevelt
  • Lev Vasilevsky, KGB Illegal Rezident Mexico City
  • John Vassall, British officer blackmailed into revealing secrets
  • John Anthony Walker US Navy senior enlisted man who spied for the Soviet Union for decades, enlisting family and friends to do so as well

[edit] Ware group

[edit] KGB Illegals

[edit] GRU

  • Robinson Bobrow
  • Felix Inslerman
  • Arvid Jacobson
  • Igor Gouzenko was a cipher clerk at Soviet Embassy in Ottawa. He defected in September, 1945 with Soviet documents on KGB activities in Canada and elsewhere. For some, his defection and revelations represents the start of the Cold War.

[edit] Karl group

[edit] Portland ring

[edit] Sorge ring

[edit] Others
  • Yuri Modin 30s 'recruiter' in UK
  • Will Morgan
  • Steve Nelson
  • Harold Nicholson, ClA officer who supplied information to the Soviets for a time in 1994
  • Joseph North, editor of the New Masses
  • Julia Older, Office of Strategic Services; Office of War Information
  • Alexander Orlov, KGB adviser to the Republican government during the Spanish Civil War who defected to the United States in 1938.

[edit] GRU Illegals


[edit] Naval GRU

[edit] Unknown affiliation, to sort

[edit] References

  1. ^ Hayes commentary
  2. ^ Jewish Antifascist Committee
  3. ^ Guilty Time: Dec. 04, 1950

[edit] See also

[edit] Categories

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