List of American spies

This is a list of spies who engaged in direct espionage. It includes Americans spying against their own country and people spying on behalf of America.

Spied for America

 * Abraham Woodhull
 * Caleb Brewster
 * Clément Gosselin
 * Benjamin Tallmadge
 * Benjamin Edes
 * David Henley
 * Enoch Crosby
 * Ethan Allen
 * Henry K. Van Rensselaer
 * James Rivington
 * John Brown of Pittsfield
 * John Champe
 * John Clark
 * John Honeyman
 * John Laurens
 * Jonathan L. Austin
 * Lydia Darrah
 * Paul Revere
 * Philip Mazzei
 * Pierre Ayotte
 * Silas Deane
 * Van Rensselaer's Regiment

Culper Ring

 * Benjamin Tallmadge
 * Agent 355
 * Abraham Woodhull
 * Robert Townsend

Spied for the Crown

 * Ann Bates
 * Benedict Arnold
 * Benjamin Church
 * Miss Jenny

Double agents

 * Edward Bancroft

Union Spies

 * Lafayette C. Baker
 * Charles C. Carpenter
 * George Curtis
 * Pauline Cushman
 * Sarah Emma Edmonds
 * Philip Henson
 * Hattie Lawton
 * Allan Pinkerton
 * Albert D. Richardson
 * John Scobell
 * Harriet Tubman
 * Elizabeth Van Lew
 * Kate Warne
 * Timothy Webster

Confederate Spies

 * John Yates Beall
 * Belle Boyd
 * James Dunwoody Bulloch
 * Confederate Signal Bureau
 * David Owen Dodd
 * Antonia Ford
 * Rose O'Neal Greenhow
 * Henry Thomas Harrison
 * Thomas Jordan
 * Alexander Keith, Jr.
 * Virginia Bethel Moon
 * Richard Thomas (Zarvona)
 * Thomas A. Jones
 * William Bryant

American World War One era spies

 * Sylvanus Morley
 * Marguerite Harrison
 * Julius Klein

American World War Two era spies

 * Arthur Goldberg
 * Moe Berg
 * Julia Child
 * Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
 * Sterling Hayden
 * Moe Berg
 * John Birch
 * Joan Bondurant
 * Eric Erickson
 * Fritz Kolbe
 * Frederick Mayer
 * Claire Phillips
 * Martin Quigley, Jr.
 * Richard Sakakida
 * William G. Sebold

Spied for America

 * John Birch
 * Arkady Shevchenko
 * Robert Baer
 * Milton Bearden
 * Otto von Bolschwing
 * Miles Copeland, Jr.
 * Philip Agee
 * Yosef Amit
 * Gerry Droller

Spied for USSR

 * Aldrich Ames
 * Elizabeth Bentley
 * Louis F. Budenz
 * Whittaker Chambers

American Gulf War era spies

 * April Fool

CIA

 * Aldrich Ames
 * David Henry Barnett
 * Larry Wu-Tai Chin
 * William Kampiles
 * Harold James Nicholson
 * Sharon M. Scranage

NSA

 * David Sheldon Boone
 * Ronald Pelton

FBI

 * Robert Hanssen
 * Richard Miller
 * Earl Edwin Pitts

Armed Forces

 * Clayton John Lonetree
 * Morris Cohen
 * John Anthony Walker

Other

 * Whittaker Chambers
 * Samuel Dickstein
 * Kendall Myers
 * Harry Dexter White

Federal Contractors

 * Christopher John Boyce
 * Andrew Daulton Lee
 * Jonathan Pollard
 * Stewart Nozette

Americans who spied on Americans

 * NSA