Name

When

Allegiance

Agency/Organization/Service

Motojiro Akashi

1904

Akashi Kikan

Lavrentiy Beria

1938

NKVD

Wilhelm Canaris

1935

Abwehr

Thomas Cromwell

1533

William J. Donovan

1941

Office of Strategic Services

Armand Jean du Plessis (Cardinal Richelieu)

1616

Allen Dulles

1953

Central Intelligence Agency

L.B. Moerdani

1952–1988

State Intelligence Agency

A.M. Hendropriyono

1945

State Intelligence Agency

Ali Murtopo

1945–1978

State Intelligence Agency

Yoga Sugama

1942–1989

State Intelligence Agency

Zhou Enlai

1928–1932

Chinese Communist Party

Special Service section of the Central CommitteeUrban Work Committee of the Central Committee

Rafaat Gebril

1973

General Intelligence Directorate (Egypt)

Fadhil Barrak

1976–1989

Iraqi Intelligence Service

Muhammad al-Khuli

1970–1987

Air Force Intelligence Directorate

Ali Mamlouk

2005–2024

National Security BureauGeneral Intelligence Directorate (Syria)

Sándor Goldberger (alias J. Peters)

1930–1948

Communist Party USA

Sidney Gottlieb

1951–1973

Central Intelligence Agency

Hamid Gul

1987–1989

Director-General of Inter-Services Intelligence

Javed Nasir

1992-1993

Director-General of Inter-Services Intelligence

Faiz Hameed

2019

Director-General of Inter-Services Intelligence

Isser Harel

1952–1963

Mossad

Ronnie Kasrils

1983–19892004–2008

Umkhonto we SizweMinister of Intelligence Services

David Kimche

1953–1980

Mossad

Ivone Kirkpatrick

1918–1918

British Army, Belgian resistance

Maxwell Knight

1924–1930

MI5

Chee Woh, Leong

1971–1984

Special Branch

Dai Li

1928–1946

National Revolutionary Army

Colin Hercules Mackenzie

1940–1946

Special Operations Executive – Force 136

Tengku Mahmood Mahyideen

1942–1945

British Malaya

Special Operations Executive –

Force 136 (Malayan region)

Yuri Modin

1948–1951

NKVD

Hugh Montgomery

1953–1981 (CIA)

1981–1985 (INR) 1989–2014 (CIA)

Central Intelligence Agency

Bureau of Intelligence and Research

Donald Nichols

1951

6004th Air Intelligence Service Squadron

Manuel Piñeiro

1961–1964

Dirección de Inteligencia

Allan Pinkerton

1855–1861

Union Intelligence Service

Wang Puchen

1948–1949

Bureau of Investigation and Statistics

Pyotr Rachkovsky

1885–1902

Okhrana

Alfred Redl

1903–1913

;

Evidenzbureau

Mao Renfeng

1946–1956

Bureau of Investigation and Statistics

Semyon Semyonov

1937–1950

NKVD

Kang Sheng

1940s–1946

Chinese Communist Party

Central Social Affairs Department

Hugh Sinclair

1919–1939

Secret Intelligence Service

Mansfield Smith-Cumming

1909–1923

Secret Intelligence Service

Richard Sorge

1920–1941

Main Intelligence Directorate

Sidney Souers

1946–1946

Director of the Central Intelligence Agency

Gustav Steinhauer

1911–1914

Nachrichten-Abteilung

William Stephenson

1940–1946

British Security Co-ordination

Emanuel Sueyro

–1629

Benjamin Tallmadge

1778–1783

Culper Ring

John Thurloe

1653

Liam Tobin

1919

Irish Republican Army

Francis Walsingham

1573–1590

George Washington

1775

Continental Army

William Wickham

1795–1801

Markus Wolf

1951–1986

Main Directorate for Reconnaissance

Shen Zui

1934–1949

Bureau of Investigation and Statistics

Kyrylo Budanov

2020–present

Main Directorate of Intelligence (Ukraine)

Bhola Nath Mullik

1950–1964

Intelligence Bureau

R. N. Kao

1968–1977

Research and Analysis Wing

Vikram Sood

1966-2003

Research and Analysis Wing

Maloy Krishna Dhar

1968-1996

Intelligence Bureau

Ajit Doval

1968–20042014-Present

Intelligence BureauNational Security Advisor of India

Zvi Zamir

1948-1973

Mossad

R. N. Ravi

1974-20122018-2019

Intelligence BureauDeputy National Security Advisor of India

Rajinder Khanna

1978–20162018-20242024-Present

Research and Analysis WingDeputy National Security Advisor of IndiaAdditional National Security Advisor of India

Anil Dhasmana

1981–2019

Research and Analysis Wing

Samant Goel

1984-2023

Research and Analysis Wing

Ravi Sinha

1988–2025

Research and Analysis Wing

Tapan Deka

1988-2026

Intelligence Bureau

Parag Jain

1989–Present

Research and Analysis Wing

David Barnea

1996–2026

Mossad

Roman Gofman

1995-Present

Mossad

Mahesh Dixit

1993-Present

Intelligence Bureau

Sergey Naryshkin

2016–present

SVR

Mikhail Lyubimov

1959–1980

KGB