List of Eastern Bloc agents in the United States

This is a list of people who may or may not have worked for intelligence organizations of the Soviet Union and Soviet-aligned countries against the United States.

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Czechoslovakia (StB)

• Karl Koecher, the mole who penetrated the CIA

Hungary

• Clyde Lee Conrad, U.S. Army NCO who betrayed NATO secrets.

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 bombers, an experimental radar system being tested by the U.S. Navy, and submarine sonar.

Soviet Union

NKVD and KGB

• Aldrich Ames, CIA officer spying for the Soviet Union beginning in 1985 as a 'walk-in' to the Soviet Embassy in Washington, D.C.
• Marion Davis Berdecio, friend of Judith Coplon and Flora Wovschin from their days at Barnard College
• William Weisband, U.S. Army signals intelligence staffer and NKVD agent handler

The "Berg" – "Art" Group

• Alexander Koral, former engineer of the municipality of New York.
• Helen Koral, Berg’s wife, housewife.
• Byron T. Darling, engineer for the Rubber Company.^[1][2]
• A. A. Yatskov
• George Blake, United Kingdom 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. Robert Hanssen warned Soviets about the investigation into his activities ^[3]
• Christopher John Boyce and Daulton Lee, American walk-in spy for the Soviet Union, known as the Falcon and the Snowman.

Buben group

• Louis F. Budenz, former member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party USA, former editor of the newspaper Daily Worker, professor at Fordham University.
• Robert Menaker, commercial traveler (traveling salesman) to a variety of trade firms
• 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 City.
• Lona Cohen, sentenced to 20 years; subject of Hugh Whitemore's drama for stage and TV Pack of Lies
• Morris Cohen sentenced to 25 years; subject of Hugh Whitemore's drama for stage and TV Pack of Lies
• Judith Coplon, NKGB counter-intelligence operative in the U.S. Department of Justice; two convictions overturned on technicalities
• Eugene Dennis, senior member of the Communist Party USA leadership, convicted of advocating the overthrow of the U.S. government and sentenced to five years
• Dieter Gerhardt, South African Navy Commodore who was convicted of spying for the Soviet Union; alleged that the Vela Incident was a joint Israeli-South African nuclear test after being released in 1994 and emigrating to Switzerland
• Theodore Hall, physicist who supplied information from Los Alamos during World War II, a NYC walk-in, never prosecuted
• Robert P. Hanssen, Federal Bureau of Investigation agent convicted of spying for the Soviet Union, betrayed tunnel under new Mt Alto Soviet Embassy in Washington DC; may have done most damage since Philby
• Reino Häyhänen, Finn who worked in the US as a Soviet spy directed by Rudolf Abel, used the VIC cypher, defected to the US
• Edward Lee Howard, ex-Central Intelligence Agency officer who sold info and escaped to Soviet Union in 1985
• Clayton J. Lonetree, U.S. Marine Embassy guard Sergeant suborned by female KGB agent ('Violetta Sanni') in Moscow, turned himself in to authorities in December 1986, convicted 1987

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 Zlatovski
• Mark Zborowski

Perlo group

• Victor Perlo, was the Chief of the Aviation Section of the War Production Board during World War II; head of branch in Research Section, Office of Price Administration Department of Commerce; Division of Monetary Research Department of the Treasury; and later the Brookings Institution
• Harold Glasser, Director, Division of Monetary Research, United States Department of the Treasury; United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration; War Production Board; Adviser on North African Affairs Committee; United States Treasury Representative to the Allied High Commission in Italy
• Alger Hiss, Director of the Office of Special Political Affairs United States Department of State
• 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
• Harry Magdoff, Statistical Division 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
• 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 National Labor Relations Board

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.
• Laurence Duggan (aka 19th), former employee of the State Department. Suicide.
• Rudolf Roessler chief of the very successful, and very odd, Lucy spy ring of World War II

Rosenberg ring

• Joel Barr, met Julius Rosenberg at City College of New York, later spied with him and Al Sarant at Army Signal Corps lab in New Jersey; escaped prosecution by fleeing to Soviet bloc in 1950. Died 2007.
• Abraham Brothman, indicted, convicted, and served two years in prison on a charge of conspiring to obstruct justice, along with co-defendant Miriam Moskowitz.^[4] Abraham Brothman gave secret industrial information to Elizabeth Bentley, who turned it over to the Soviet Union.^[5]
• Klaus Fuchs, physicist who supplied information about the British and American atomic bomb research to the Soviet Union; sentenced to 14 years in the UK.
• Vivian Glassman, fiancée of Joel Barr
• Harry Gold, courier sentenced to 30 years
• David Greenglass, draftsman at Los Alamos in World War II, gave atomic bomb drawings to his sister Ethel Rosenberg, and eventually the Soviets; 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 concoct a phony story for a 1947 grand jury investigation^[6] and served two years in prison^[7] for assisting her business partner, Abraham Brothman.^[5] Moskowitz did not testify in her own defense, stating later that she was "intimate" with Brothman and did not want to be "branded a harlot".^[8] She was never convicted of being a spy for the Soviet Union,^[6] but was convicted on the testimony of Harry Gold and Elizabeth Bentley.^[9]
• William Perl, active in Young Communist League at CCNY, then met Al Sarant at Columbia University; 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 near her native New York City for conspiracy to commit espionage
• Julius Rosenberg, executed at Sing Sing prison near his native New York City 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 the protection of his Soviet masters in 1950
• Andrew Roth, Office of Naval Intelligence liaison officer with United States Department of State
• Saville Sax college friend of Theodore Hall assisted with Hall's disclosure to the Soviets of Los Alamos research and development

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 ^[10]
• 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^[11]

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 1930s, testified about her activities in hearings in the 1940s and 1950s
• 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.
• 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, 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
• 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
• Duncan Lee, counsel to General William Donovan, head of Office of Strategic Services
• 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
• 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; Counsel to the Secretary of the National Labor Relations Board
• Bernard Schuster^[12]
• 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
• 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 Pravdina, former employee of the Ministry of Trade, wife of “Sergei,” the rezident in New York; author of Gorsky Memo (see Vladimir Pravdin)^[13]
• Vladimir Pravdin, “Sergei”, Tass, former rezident of the MGB USSR in New York
• Mikhail A. Shaliapin [Shalyapin], “Stock” [“Shtok”]^[14]
• 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 President Franklin Roosevelt
• 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

Ware group

• Whittaker Chambers, Department of State, testified against Alger Hiss
• Henry Collins, National Recovery Administration; Department of Agriculture
• John Herrmann, CPUSA operative and courier, eventually drank himself to death in Mexico
• Alger Hiss, Department of State, sentenced to 5 years for perjury
• Donald Hiss, Department of State, 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 International Monetary Fund which he helped establish along with the World Bank
• Bill Weisband, United States Army Signals Security Agency
• Enos Wicher, professor at Columbia University who also worked at Columbia's Division of War Research; stepfather of Barnard College recruiter and State Department spy Flora Wovschin

KGB Illegals

• Rudolf Abel, aka William Fischer, Illegal Rezident in the 1950s
• A. I. Akhmerov, “Albert” – former Illegal Rezident of the MGB USSR in New York

GRU

• Arvid Jacobson

Karl group

• Noel Field, United States Department of State
• Harold Glasser, Director, Division of Monetary Research, United States Department of the Treasury; United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration; War Production Board; Adviser on North African Affairs Committee; United States Treasury Representative to the Allied High Commission in Italy
• Alger Hiss, United States Department of State, sentenced to 5 years for perjury
• Donald Hiss, United States Department of State; United States Department of Labor; United States Department of the Interior
• 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
• J. Peters
• William Ward Pigman, National Bureau of Standards; Labor and Public Welfare Committee
• Vincent Reno, mathematician at United States Army Aberdeen Proving Ground
• George Silverman, Director of the Bureau of Research and Information Services, US Railroad Retirement Board; Economic Adviser and Chief of Analysis and Plans, Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Material and Services, War Department
• Julian Wadleigh, United States Department of State
• Harry Dexter White, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; Head of the International Monetary Fund
• Viktor Vasilevish Sveshchnikov, United States War Department

Portland ring

• Konon Molody (aka Gordon Lonsdale)
• Juliet Poyntz
• Fred Rose (politician), Canadian Member of Parliament, first elected from the Labour-Progressive Party (Canada) 1943
• Milton Schwartz

Sorge ring

• Chen Han-seng
• Hotsumi Ozaki
• Agnes Smedley
• Lydia Stahl
• Joseph Benjamin Stenbuck
• Irving Charles Velson, Brooklyn Navy Yard; American Labor Party candidate for New York State Senate
• Flora Wovschin, NKVD operative in U.S. State Department, comrade of Marion Davis Berdecio and Judith Coplon from their days at Columbia University
• 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."

Others

• Alexander Orlov, KGB adviser to the Republican government during the Spanish Civil War who defected to the United States in 1938.

GRU Illegals

• Moishe Stern
• Alfred Tilton
• Alexander Ulanovsky
• Ignacy Witczak

Naval GRU

• Jack Fahy (Naval GRU), Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs; Board of Economic Warfare; United States Department of the Interior
• Edna Patterson Naval GRU, served in US August 1943 to 1956

Unknown affiliation, to sort

• Morris Cohen (Soviet spy) sentenced to 25 years; subject of Hugh Whitemore's drama for stage and TV Pack of Lies
• Lona Cohen, Soviet spy sentenced to 20 years; subject of Hugh Whitemore's drama for stage and TV Pack of Lies
• George Koval
• Samuel Krafsur, TASS reporter who was mentioned prominently in the Venona Files.
• Earl Edwin Pitts

See also

• Active measures
• List of cryptographers
• List of Americans in Venona papers
• Treason
• List of fictional secret agents

References

External links

• Vassiliev, Alexander (2003), Alexander Vassiliev’s Notes on Anatoly Gorsky’s December 1948 Memo on Compromised American Sources and Networks, retrieved 2012-04-21 
• Official SVR site (Russian)