Editing Cold War espionage (section)

== Known spies working for the Western Bloc during the Cold War ==
* [[Aleksandr Dmitrievich Ogorodnik]]- A Soviet Diplomat who photographed confidential diplomatic cables and sent them to the US.
* [[Arkady Shevchenko]]- A Soviet Diplomat and the highest ranking Soviet to defect to the west. As Under Secretary General at the United Nations, he passed on Soviet secrets to US officials.
* [[Boris Morros]]- Originally a Soviet agent, Morros became an FBI informant who reported on the Sobel Spy ring.
* [[Boris Yuzhin]]- A double agent who while working at the KGB revealed Soviet recruitment programs.
* [[Gerry Droller]]- A German CIA official who recruited Cuban Exiles for the Bay of Pigs invasion. 
* [[Heinz Barwich]]- A German Nuclear Physicist who worked on the Soviet atomic bomb project. He defected to the West in 1964 and testified before the US Senate. 
* [[John Birch (missionary)|John Birch]]- An American Baptist Missionary who was killed gathering intelligence during the Chinese Civil War.
* [[Miles Copeland Jr.]]- A CIA agent who had a hand in the overthrow of the Syrian government in 1949 and the Iranian government of 1953.
* [[Milton Bearden]]- US CIA Station Chief in Pakistan during the Afghanistan Civil War

* [[Nicholas Shadrin]]- A Soviet Naval Officer who defected to the West.
* [[Otto von Bolschwing]]- A former Nazi spy who was recruited by the US before the end of the war. Played a part in the Greek Civil War.
* [[Philip Agee]]- An American CIA agent who became repulsed by CIA actions abroad. He was accused of attempting to sell state secrets to Soviet and Cuba officials, a charge that he denied up until his death.
* [[Robert Baer]]- A former CIA agent, now a writer, and inspiration for George Clooney's character in the film "[[Syriana]]."
* [[Ruth Fischer]]- Co-founder of the Austrian Communist Party. Became disillusioned with Stalinism. See also "[[The Pond (intelligence organization)|The Pond]]."
* [[Yosef Amit]]- A former Israeli intelligence official. Recruited by the CIA and revealed Israeli troop positions and Israeli foreign policy goals.
* [[Yuri Nosenko]]- A KGB defector who experienced harsh interrogation techniques at the hands of the CIA.
* [[Adolf Tolkachev]]- A Soviet electronic engineer who provided key documents to the CIA.
*[[Michael Goleniewski]]- Polish triple agent who potentially helped identify more Soviet spies than any other defector. He also alleged there was a Soviet-controlled organisation of former Nazis - which he nicknamed 'Hacke' - that was active in postwar West Germany.