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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
· Louis Adamic, writer and spokesman for Yugoslav immigrants. During World War II, he advised the OSS on Balkan questions. Source for Golos-Bentley network via Louis Budenz.
· 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] [6]
· 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 an sentenced to five years
· Mark Gayn, journalist, The Washington Post; Amerasia case
· 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
· Ben-Zion Goldberg (Benjamin Waife), journalist, contributor to Toronto Star, St. Louis Dispatch, New York Post, Today, and The New Republic [4]
· 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 [7]
· Edward Lee Howard, ex-Central Intelligence Agency officer who sold info and escaped to Soviet Union in 1985
· V. J. Jerome, sentenced to three years for advocating overthrow of U.S. government
· Martin Kamen, Radiation Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, Manhattan Project
· Walter Krivitsky
· Giovanni Rossi Lomanitz, Berkeley Radiation Laboratory
· 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
· Jay Lovestone
· Carl Marzani, Deputy Chief Photographic Presentation Branch Office of Strategic Services; United States Department of State
· Alan Nunn May, physicist who supplied information about the British and American atomic bomb research to the Soviet Union
· Kate Mitchell
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
· George Perazich, Foreign Economic Administration; United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
· 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
· Donald Wheeler, Office of Strategic Services Research and Analysis division
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.
· Laurence Duggan (aka 19th), former employee of the State Department. Suicide.
· Franz Leopold Neumann, former consultant in the Department of Research and Analysis of the OSS
· 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.[5] Abraham Brothman gave secret industrial information to Elizabeth Bentley, who turned it over to the Soviet Union.[6]
· Max Elitcher, longtime friend of Rosenberg and Sobell from their days at CCNY before testifying against them
· 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 [8]
· 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[7] and served two years in prison[8] for assisting her business partner, Abraham Brothman.[6] 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”.[9] She was never convicted of being a spy for the Soviet Union,[7] but was convicted on the testimony of Harry Gold and Elizabeth Bentley.[10]
· 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 [9] [10]
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 [11]
· 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
o 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
Sound and Myrna groups
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o Solomon Adler, United States Department of the Treasury
o Cedric Belfrage, journalist; British Security Coordination
o 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
o 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
o Lauchlin Currie, Administrative Assistant to President Roosevelt; Deputy Administrator of Foreign Economic Administration; Special Representative to China
o 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.
o Frederick V. Field, Executive Secretary American Peace Mobilization
o Edward Fitzgerald, War Production Board
o Charles Flato, Board of Economic Warfare; Civil Liberties Subcommittee, Senate Committee on Education and Labor
o Eva Getzov, Jewish Welfare Board [11]
o 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
o 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
o Irving Goldman, Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs
o Jacob Golos, the “main pillar” of the NKVD intelligence network in the U.S., died in the arms of comrade Elizabeth Bentley
o Gerald Graze, United States Civil Service Commission; Department of Defense, U.S. Navy official
o Stanley Graze, United States Department of State intelligence
o Michael Greenberg, Board of Economic Warfare; Administrative Division, Enemy Branch, Foreign Economic Administration; United States Department of State
o Joseph Gregg, Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs; United States Department of State
o Maurice Halperin, Chief of Latin American Division, Research and Analysis section, Office of Strategic Services; United States Department of State
o Julius Joseph, Far Eastern section (Japanese Intelligence) Office of Strategic Services
o 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
o Joseph Katz
o 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
o Duncan Lee, counsel to General William Donovan, head of Office of Strategic Services
o Bernice Levin, Office of Emergency Management; Office of Production Management
o Helen Lowry, (Elza Akhmerova), Akhmerov wife, American-born and raised, Soviet citizen
o 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
o Jenny Levy Miller, Chinese Government Purchasing Commission
o Robert Miller, Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs; Near Eastern Division United States Department of State
o Willard Park, Assistant Chief of the Economic Analysis Section, Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs; United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
o 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
o Mary Price, stenographer for Walter Lippmann of the New York Herald
o Bernard Redmont, head of the Foreign News Bureau Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs
o William Remington, War Production Board; Office of Emergency Management, convicted for perjury, killed in prison
o Ruth Rivkin, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
o 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
o Bernard Schuster[12]
o 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
o John Spivak, journalist[citation needed]
o William Taylor, Assistant Director of Monetary Research, United States Department of Treasury
o Helen Tenney, Office of Strategic Services
o Lee Tenney, Balkan Division Office of Strategic Services
o 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
o 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
o Donald Wheeler, Office of Strategic Services Research and Analysis division
o Anatoly Gorsky, (Anatoly Veniaminovich Gorsky, A. V. Gorsky), “Vadim”, former rezident of the MGB USSR in Washington
o 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]
o Vladimir Pravdin, “Sergei”, Tass, former rezident of the MGB USSR in New York
o Mikhail A. Shaliapin [Shalyapin], “Stock” [“Shtok”][14]
o Gaik Badelovich Ovakimian, former rezident of the MGB USSR in New York
o 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 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
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o Whittaker Chambers, Department of State, testified against Alger Hiss
o Henry Collins, National Recovery Administration; Department of Agriculture
o John Herrmann, CPUSA operative and courier, eventually drank himself to death in Mexico
o Alger Hiss, Department of State, sentenced to 5 years for perjury
o Donald Hiss, Department of State, younger brother of Alger Hiss
o Victor Perlo, became spymaster of Perlo group during World War II
o George Silverman, Harvard-educated statistician who gave secret Pentagon documents to Nathan Silvermaster group during World War II
o Harry Dexter White, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; head of the International Monetary Fund which he helped establish along with the World Bank
· Ruby Weil, American communist who assisted in plot to murder Leon Trotsky
· 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
· David Carpenter (David Zimmerman)
· 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
· William Spiegel
· 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
· Yuri Modin 1930s ‘recruiter’ in UK
· 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.
GRU Illegals
· Moishe Stern
· Joshua Tamer
· 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
· 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, CIA
Bernd Pulch 