Editing Cold War espionage (section)

== Known spies working for the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War ==
* [[Aldrich Ames]] - (born May 26, 1941) - A [[Central Intelligence Agency]] (CIA) operative for over thirty-one years but was a KGB mole.
* [[Elizabeth Bentley]]
* [[Louis F. Budenz]] - Labor Activist in the United States. Became a member of the Communist Party and later headed Buben Group of Spies. 
* [[Ethel Gee]] - minor member of the [[Portland spy ring]]
* [[Konon Molody]] - leader of the [[Portland spy ring]]
* [[Dieter Gerhardt]] - Convicted Soviet spy in South Africa along with his wife of many years who acted as his courier.
* [[David Greenglass]] - atomic spy specialist that worked in both the Manhattan Project, the Uranium Facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and at the Los Alamos facility in New Mexico. Arrested in June 1950
* [[Gunvor Galtung Haavik]] - Employee for the [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Norway)|Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs]]. Arrested in January 1977. Betrayed by another Soviet spy. 
* [[Robert Hanssen]] - FBI agent who spied for the Soviet Union. 
* Robert Lee Johnson<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.damninteresting.com/the-spy-who-loved-nothing/|title=The Spy Who Loved Nothing|website=www.damninteresting.com|language=en-US|access-date=2017-04-13}}</ref>- An American sergeant that joined the KGB when stationed in East Berlin. Turned in by his wife and sentenced to 25 years in prison. Johnson was killed by his own son in 1972. 
* [[Alexander Koral]] - Well known member of the [[Communist Party USA|Communist Party of the United States of America]] (CPUSA). Was in charge of many Soviet Spies residing in the United States during World War II and the Cold War era. 
* [[Andrew Daulton Lee]] - Collaborated with a childhood friend, [[Christopher John Boyce]] (an American Defense Industry Employee). Lee bought United States satellite secrets and sold them to the Soviet Union. He was arrested in December 1976 under suspicion of killing a Mexico City Police Officer.
* [[Oleg Lyalin]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/witness/september/30/newsid_2523000/2523457.stm|title=BBC ON THIS DAY {{!}} 30 {{!}} 1971: 'I arrested a KGB superspy'|website=news.bbc.co.uk|date=30 September 1971 |access-date=2017-04-16}}</ref> - Soviet agent that defected from the [[KGB]]. Lyalin's defection was forced by his arrest in London. Was given a new identity and placed into a protective housing until his death in 1995. 
* [[Hede Massing]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/09/obituaries/hede-massing-81-ex-soviet-spy-who-was-witness-against-hiss.html|title=HEDE MASSING, 81 EX-SOVIET SPY WHO WAS WITNESS AGAINST HISS|date=1981-03-09|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-04-16|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> - Austrian Actress turned Soviet intelligence operative in both the United States and Europe. Member of the "Redhead group". 
* [[Alexandru Nicolschi]] - (Александр Серге́евич Никольский) A Romanian communist activist and Soviet agent under the Communist Regime. Remained active until the 1960s. Was supportive of violent politics. General inspector for the [[secret police]]. 
* [[Selmer Nilsen]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nordlys.no/magasin/domt-og-fordomt/s/1-79-2758064|title=Dømt og fordømt|date=2007-05-08|work=www.nordlys.no|access-date=2017-04-16|language=no}}</ref> - Nilsen was a spy for the GRU during the Cold War. Stationed in [[Bodø (town)|Bodø]] for approximately seven years. Arrested after seventeen years of espionage in 1967. Was pardoned in 1971. 
* [[Alan Nunn May]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/25/world/alan-nunn-may-91-pioneer-in-atomic-spying-for-soviets.html|title=Alan Nunn May, 91, Pioneer In Atomic Spying for Soviets|last=The Associated Press|date=2003-01-25|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-04-13|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>- A convicted Soviet Spy and former British Physicist. Gave atomic research secrets to the Soviet Union during the gray area of World War II and the Cold War beginning. Confessed to charges of espionage in 1946. Did not believe that his acts should be defined as treason.
* [[Earl Edwin Pitts]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.jonathanpollard.org/1997/062397.htm|title=Ex-FBI Agent Pitts Sentenced to 27 Years|website=www.jonathanpollard.org|access-date=2017-04-13}}</ref> - [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] special agent turned Soviet Spy. Arrested in an FBI sting operation. Pleaded guilty to charges of espionage in 1997. 
* [[Geoffrey Prime]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1326330/Traitor-Prime-free-after-19-years-jail.html|title=Traitor Prime free after 19 years' jail|editor=Philip Johnston, Home Affairs|work=Telegraph.co.uk|access-date=2017-04-13|language=en}}</ref>
* [[Norman J. Rees]]<ref name="NYT">Special to NYTimes front page (March 2, 1976), [https://www.nytimes.com/1976/03/02/archives/spy-said-hed-dill-himself-if-exposed-then-did-so-spy-said-hed-kill.html "Spy Said He'd Kill Himself If Exposed, Then Did So"], ''The New York Times,'' p. 1</ref> oil engineer, Soviet agent, then [[double agent]] for [[FBI]]; committed suicide after exposure by newspaper
* [[John Alexander Symonds]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/1999/sep/14/features11.g22|title=I told you I was a spy|date=1999-09-13|work=The Guardian|access-date=2017-04-13|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref> - English metropolitan police officer who also worked as a KGB agent. During the 1970s, Symonds was assigned to be a "Romeo spy", directed to work as a playboy and seduce women working in Western embassies while trying to learn other country's secrets. He revealed himself to be a KGB agent in the 1980s. Surprisingly, Symonds was never prosecuted or convicted. 
* [[Julian Wadleigh]]<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,800437,00.html|title=COMMUNISTS: The Government Rests|date=1949-06-27|magazine=Time|access-date=2017-04-13|issn=0040-781X}}</ref> - Worked for the Department of State in the United States of America in the 1930s and 1940s. Was a key witness in the trials of [[Alger Hiss]]. Wadleigh's main goal in being a spy was to stop the rise of Fascism. He strongly believed that the information he took from the Department of State could not be used against the United States, but that it could be used against Germany and Japan. 
* [[John Anthony Walker]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.usni.org/magazines/navalhistory/2010-06/navys-biggest-betrayal|title=The Navy's Biggest Betrayal {{!}} U.S. Naval Institute|website=www.usni.org|date=June 2010 |access-date=2017-04-13}}</ref> - United States Navy Chief Warrant Officer and communications specialist. Convicted of espionage for the Soviet Union from 1968 to 1985. Was required to testify against former chief petty officer [[Jerry Whitworth]]. Walker's job duties allowed him to inform the Soviet Union where the United States' submarines would be located.
*[[Theodore Hall]] - American physicist and Soviet spy who passed atomic secrets to Soviet intelligence during the Manhattan Project, and hydrogen bomb information after 1946.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Theodore Hall|url=https://www.atomicheritage.org/profile/theodore-hall|access-date=2021-07-07|website=Atomic Heritage Foundation|language=en}}</ref>
*[[Johannes Clemens]] - a former [[Gestapo]] who served the Soviets as a double agent reporting on West German intelligence.<ref name=":3">{{Cite news|title=How the Soviets recruited Nazi war criminals to spy on the West|url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-how-the-soviets-recruited-nazi-war-criminals-to-spy-on-the-west-1.9272286|access-date=2021-07-07|newspaper=Haaretz|language=en}}</ref>
*[[Hans Sommer (SS officer)|Hans Sommer]] - a former [[Sicherheitsdienst|SD]] deputy who initially identified Soviet spies for West German intelligence, then flipped to the Soviets until 1953 when he was fired, after which he worked for the East German [[Stasi]].<ref name=":3" />
*[[Heinz Felfe]] - a former Nazi officer who became “Moscow's most important mole in the West German intelligence service” and exposed over 100 CIA agents in the Soviet Union. Felfe was a Soviet double agent in West Germany from about 1951 to his arrest in 1961.<ref name=":3" />
*[[Kim Philby]] - Soviet double agent within British intelligence, recruited in Austria in 1934. He passed secrets to the Soviets as a member of the [[Cambridge Five]] until 1963. He came from an upper-class background, and seemed particularly devoted to his belief in communism during almost 30 years as a spy.<ref name=":6">{{Cite news|date=2016-04-03|title=Kim Philby, British double agent, reveals all in secret video|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-35943428|access-date=2021-07-07}}</ref>
*[[Markus Wolf]] - the spymaster for the East German Stasi, seen for many years as an elusive "man without a face" by Western intelligence.<ref name=":6" />
*[[Jeffrey Carney]] - an East German spy.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2013-09-19 |title=Jeff Carney: The lonely US airman turned Stasi spy |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-23978501 |access-date=2022-09-05}}</ref>