List of spymasters

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List of spymasters

Name	When	Allegiance	Agency/Organization/Service
Motojiro Akashi	1904	Template:JPN	Akashi Kikan
Vera Atkins	1944	Template:Flag	Special Operations Executive
Lavrentiy Beria	1938	Template:Flag	NKVD
Arturo Bocchini	1927–1940	Template:Flagicon Fascist Italy	OVRA
Wilhelm Canaris	1935	Template:Flag	Abwehr
Thomas Cromwell	1533	Template:Flag
William J. Donovan	1941	Template:Flag	Office of Strategic Services
Armand Jean du Plessis (Cardinal Richelieu)	1616	Template:Flag
Allen Dulles	1953	Template:Flag	Central Intelligence Agency
Zhou Enlai	1928–1932	Template:Flagicon image Chinese Communist PartyTemplate:Notetag	Special Service section of the Central Committee Urban Work Committee of the Central Committee
Rafaat Gebril	1973	Template:Flag	General Intelligence Directorate (Egypt)
Ali Mamlouk	2005–2024	Template:Flag	National Security Bureau General Intelligence Directorate (Syria)
Sándor Goldberger (alias J. Peters)	1930–1948	Template:Flag	Communist Party USA
Sidney Gottlieb	1951–1973	Template:Flag	Central Intelligence Agency
Hamid Gul	1987–1989	Template:Flag	Director-General of Inter-Services Intelligence
Faiz Hameed	2019	Template:Flag	Director-General of Inter-Services Intelligence
Isser Harel	1952–1963	Template:Flag	Mossad
R. N. Kao	1968–1977	Template:Flag	Research and Analysis Wing
Ronnie Kasrils	1983–1989 2004–2008	Template:Flag	Umkhonto we Sizwe Minister of Intelligence Services
David Kimche	1953–1980	Template:Flag	Mossad
Ivone Kirkpatrick	1918–1918	Template:Flag	British Army, Belgian resistance
Maxwell Knight	1924–1930	Template:Flag	MI5
Dai Li	1928–1946	Template:Flag	National Revolutionary Army
Colin Hercules Mackenzie	1940–1946	Template:Flag	Special Operations Executive – Force 136
Yuri Modin	1948–1951	Template:Flag	NKVD
Hugh Montgomery	1953–1981 (CIA) 1981–1985 (INR) 1989–2014 (CIA)	Template:Flag	Central Intelligence Agency Bureau of Intelligence and Research
Bhola Nath Mullik	1950–1964	Template:Flag	Intelligence Bureau
Donald Nichols	1951	Template:Flag	6004th Air Intelligence Service Squadron
Manuel Piñeiro	1961–1964	Template:Flag	Dirección de Inteligencia
Allan Pinkerton	1855–1861	Template:Flag	Union Intelligence Service
Wang Puchen	1948–1949	Template:Flag	Bureau of Investigation and Statistics
Pyotr Rachkovsky	1885–1902	Template:Flag	Okhrana
Alfred Redl	1903–1913	Template:Flag; Template:FlagTemplate:Notetag	Evidenzbureau
Mao Renfeng	1946–1956	Template:Flag	Bureau of Investigation and Statistics
Semyon Semyonov	1937–1950	Template:Flag	NKVD
Kang Sheng	1940s–1946	Template:Flagicon image Chinese Communist PartyTemplate:Notetag	Central Social Affairs Department
Hugh Sinclair	1919–1939	Template:Flag	Secret Intelligence Service
Mansfield Smith-Cumming	1909–1923	Template:Flag	Secret Intelligence Service
Richard Sorge	1920–1941	Template:Flag	Main Intelligence Directorate
Sidney Souers	1946–1946	Template:Flag	Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
Gustav Steinhauer	1911–1914	Template:Flag	Nachrichten-Abteilung
William Stephenson	1940–1946	Template:Flag	British Security Co-ordination
Emanuel Sueyro	Template:Circa–1629	Template:Flag
Benjamin Tallmadge	1778–1783	Template:Flag	Culper Ring
John Thurloe	1653	Template:Flag
Liam Tobin	1919	Template:Flag	Irish Republican Army
Francis Walsingham	1573–1590	Template:Flag
George Washington	1775	Template:Flag	Continental Army
William Wickham	1795–1801	Template:Flag
Markus Wolf	1951–1986	Template:Flag	Main Directorate for Reconnaissance
Shen Zui	1934–1949	Template:Flag	Bureau of Investigation and Statistics
Kyrylo Budanov	2020–present	Template:Flag	Main Directorate of Intelligence (Ukraine)
Ajit Doval	2014–present	Template:Flag	National Security Advisor (India)

See also

• List of American spies
• List of British spies
• List of German spies
• List of fictional spymasters

References

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