| Name
|
When
|
Allegiance
|
Agency/Organization/Service
|
| Motojiro Akashi
|
1904
|
Japan
|
Akashi Kikan
|
| Vera Atkins
|
1944
|
United Kingdom
|
Special Operations Executive
|
| Lavrentiy Beria
|
1938
|
Soviet Union
|
NKVD
|
| Arturo Bocchini
|
1927–1940
|
Kingdom of Italy Fascist Italy
|
OVRA
|
| Wilhelm Canaris
|
1935
|
Nazi Germany
|
Abwehr
|
| Thomas Cromwell
|
1533
|
Kingdom of England
|
| William J. Donovan
|
1941
|
United States
|
Office of Strategic Services
|
| Armand Jean du Plessis (Cardinal Richelieu)
|
1616
|
Kingdom of France
|
| Allen Dulles
|
1953
|
United States
|
Central Intelligence Agency
|
| L.B. Moerdani
|
1952–1988
|
Indonesia
|
State Intelligence Agency
|
| Ali Murtopo
|
1945–1978
|
Indonesia
|
State Intelligence Agency
|
| Yoga Sugama
|
1942–1989
|
Indonesia
|
State Intelligence Agency
|
| Zhou Enlai
|
1928–1932
|
Chinese Communist Party [note 1]
|
Special Service section of the Central Committee
Urban Work Committee of the Central Committee
|
| Rafaat Gebril
|
1973
|
Egypt
|
General Intelligence Directorate (Egypt)
|
| Ali Mamlouk
|
2005–2024
|
Ba'athist Syria
|
National Security Bureau
General Intelligence Directorate (Syria)
|
| Sándor Goldberger (alias J. Peters)
|
1930–1948
|
Soviet Union
|
Communist Party USA
|
| Sidney Gottlieb
|
1951–1973
|
United States
|
Central Intelligence Agency
|
| Hamid Gul
|
1987–1989
|
Pakistan
|
Director-General of Inter-Services Intelligence
|
| Javed Nasir
|
1992-1993
|
Pakistan
|
Director-General of Inter-Services Intelligence
|
| Faiz Hameed
|
2019
|
Pakistan
|
Director-General of Inter-Services Intelligence
|
| Isser Harel
|
1952–1963
|
Israel
|
Mossad
|
| R. N. Kao
|
1968–1977
|
India
|
Research and Analysis Wing
|
| Ronnie Kasrils
|
1983–1989
2004–2008
|
South Africa
|
Umkhonto we Sizwe
Minister of Intelligence Services
|
| David Kimche
|
1953–1980
|
Israel
|
Mossad
|
| Ivone Kirkpatrick
|
1918–1918
|
United Kingdom
|
British Army, Belgian resistance
|
| Maxwell Knight
|
1924–1930
|
United Kingdom
|
MI5
|
| Chee Woh, Leong
|
1971–1984
|
Malaysia
|
Special Branch
|
| Dai Li
|
1928–1946
|
Republic of China
|
National Revolutionary Army
|
| Colin Hercules Mackenzie
|
1940–1946
|
United Kingdom
|
Special Operations Executive – Force 136
|
| Tengku Mahmood Mahyideen
|
1942–1945
|
British Malaya
|
Special Operations Executive –
Force 136 (Malayan region)
|
| Yuri Modin
|
1948–1951
|
Soviet Union
|
NKVD
|
| Hugh Montgomery
|
1953–1981 (CIA)
1981–1985 (INR)
1989–2014 (CIA)
|
United States
|
Central Intelligence Agency
Bureau of Intelligence and Research
|
| Bhola Nath Mullik
|
1950–1964
|
India
|
Intelligence Bureau
|
| Donald Nichols
|
1951
|
United States
|
6004th Air Intelligence Service Squadron
|
| Manuel Piñeiro
|
1961–1964
|
Cuba
|
Dirección de Inteligencia
|
| Allan Pinkerton
|
1855–1861
|
United States
|
Union Intelligence Service
|
| Wang Puchen
|
1948–1949
|
Republic of China
|
Bureau of Investigation and Statistics
|
| Pyotr Rachkovsky
|
1885–1902
|
Russian Empire
|
Okhrana
|
| Alfred Redl
|
1903–1913
|
Austria-Hungary;
Russian Empire [note 2]
|
Evidenzbureau
|
| Mao Renfeng
|
1946–1956
|
Republic of China
|
Bureau of Investigation and Statistics
|
| Semyon Semyonov
|
1937–1950
|
Soviet Union
|
NKVD
|
| Kang Sheng
|
1940s–1946
|
Chinese Communist Party [note 1]
|
Central Social Affairs Department
|
| Hugh Sinclair
|
1919–1939
|
United Kingdom
|
Secret Intelligence Service
|
| Mansfield Smith-Cumming
|
1909–1923
|
United Kingdom
|
Secret Intelligence Service
|
| Richard Sorge
|
1920–1941
|
Soviet Union
|
Main Intelligence Directorate
|
| Sidney Souers
|
1946–1946
|
United States
|
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
|
| Gustav Steinhauer
|
1911–1914
|
Germany
|
Nachrichten-Abteilung
|
| William Stephenson
|
1940–1946
|
Canada
|
British Security Co-ordination
|
| Emanuel Sueyro
|
c. 1620–1629
|
Spain
|
| Benjamin Tallmadge
|
1778–1783
|
United States
|
Culper Ring
|
| John Thurloe
|
1653
|
Commonwealth of England
|
| Liam Tobin
|
1919
|
Irish Republic
|
Irish Republican Army
|
| Francis Walsingham
|
1573–1590
|
Kingdom of England
|
| George Washington
|
1775
|
United States
|
Continental Army
|
| William Wickham
|
1795–1801
|
United Kingdom
|
| Markus Wolf
|
1951–1986
|
East Germany
|
Main Directorate for Reconnaissance
|
| Shen Zui
|
1934–1949
|
Republic of China
|
Bureau of Investigation and Statistics
|
| Kyrylo Budanov
|
2020–present
|
Ukraine
|
Main Directorate of Intelligence (Ukraine)
|
| Ajit Doval
|
2014–present
|
India
|
National Security Advisor (India)
|