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List of spies in World War II

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The following is a list of notable spies during World War II.

Spies[]

Person Notes Reference(s)
Sverre Bergh Bergh spied on missile facilities in Germany. He illegally moved German plans "Wasserfall" - surface-to-air-missiles- out of Germany. [1]
Mathilde Carré Carré was a double agent. [2]
Blanche Charlet Charlet worked with Special Operations Executive, a British organization that went against the Axis powers. [3]
Julia Child Child worked for the Office of Strategic Services on the development of shark repellents. She worked on this to make sure the sharks would not explode German U-boats. [4]
Harold Cole Cole betrayed French resistance. [5]
Ernest Cuneo Cuneo was a liaison officer who revealed stories about the United States commanders. [6]
Roman Czerniawski Czerniawski was a D-Day spy. [7][8]
Madeleine Damerment Damerment worked for Special Operations Executive and was later shot. [9]
Claude Dansey Dansey was assistant chief of the Secret Intelligence Service. [10]
William J. Donovan Donovan was the head of the Office of Strategic Services. [11]
Wilfred Dunderdale Dunderdale was a commander during the war. [12]
Ian Fleming Fleming was a Lieutenant Commander RNVR in the Naval Intelligence Division (NID) and was a key member of the NID 17. [13]
Arthur Goldberg Goldberg was a United Nations ambassador. [14]
Graham Greene Greene was involved in the Secret Intelligence Service (also known as MI6). [15]
Virginia Hall Hall was a spy for the Special Operations Executive, American Office of Strategic Services and the Central Intelligence Agency. [16][17]
Sterling Hayden Hayden was an agent for the Office of Strategic Services. [18]
Mary Katherine Herbert Herbert worked as a translator at Air Ministry in London after working with the British Embassy. [19]
Jane Horney Horney was a Swedish spy for the Soviet Union. [20]
Ron Jeffery [21]
Dirk Klop Klop took part in the Venlo Incident. [22]
Horst Kopkow Kopkow was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of captured Allied agents. [23]
Jan Kowalewski Kowaleski helped Poland achieve victor in the Battle of Warsaw. [24]
Andrzej Kowerski (also called Andrew Kennedy) Kowerski was a Lieutenant for Poland during the war. [25]
Karin Lannby Lannby was a spy for Sweden. [26]
Kazimierz Leski Leski was a pilot during the war. He was capture and went to prison, and then he escaped. [27]
Stewart Menzies [28]
Merlin Minshall Minshall worked for Ian Fleming as a spy. [29]
Mutt and Jeff (spies) [30]
Eileen Nearne Nearne was a Special Operations Executive for the United Kingdom. [31]
Jacqueline Nearne [32]
Alexandru Nicolschi She was a Soviet spy. [33]
Paddy O'Sullivan O'Sullivan was a member of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force. [34]
John Pendlebury Pendleburry worked for the British intelligence. [35]
Paddy Ridsdale Ridsdale was Ian Fleming's secretary. [36]
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. He worked for the Office of Strategic Services. [37]
Peter Smithers Smithers helped Ian Fleming collect German spies in Britain. [38]
Violette Szabo [39]
Halina Szymańska Szymańska had a French identity card, which identified her as a Marie Clenat. She used this card to aid Britain. [40]
Peggy Taylor (spy) Taylor was a French spy who shot and killed a German Gestapo colonel when she was 21. [41]
Jim Thompson (designer) Thompson served as an operative in the Office of Strategic Services. [42]
Ted Tinling Tinlin was a colonel for the British intelligence. [43]
Jona von Ustinov Ustinov was a British spy. [44]
Valentine Vivian [45]
Pearl Witherington Witherington was known by many names. [46]
F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas Yeo-Thomas was a Special Operations Executive agent. [47]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ↑ Quisling aircraft used in espionage coup - Aftenposten
  2. ↑ La Chatté: The lost tale of a double agent…. |New Histories
  3. ↑ Images of war and peace |News| The Guardian
  4. ↑ Spy service files are secret no more - Los Angeles Times
  5. ↑ Murphy, Brendan. Turncoat (ISBN 0 356 15747 4). (page 19)
  6. ↑ Sweeney, Michael S., Secrets of victory: the Office of Censorship and the American press and Radio in World War II, University of North Carolina Press, ISBN 0-8078-2598-0 (2001), pp. 157-162
  7. ↑ The D-Day Spies, Part III: Roman Czerniawski | WWII | Command Posts
  8. ↑ 'Double Cross' and 'Agent Garbo' - NYTimes.com
  9. ↑ Noor Inayat Khan
  10. ↑ Claude Dansey
  11. ↑ A Look Back ...Gen. William J. Donovan Heads Office of Strategic Services - Central Intelligence Agency
  12. ↑ Real 'James Bond' revealed in MI6 archives - Telegraph
  13. ↑ World War II (1939 - 1945) | Ian Fleming Publications
  14. ↑ Arthur J. Goldberg Dies at 81; Ex-Justice and Envoy to U.N. - New York Times
  15. ↑ Christopher Hawtree. "A Muse on the tides of history: Elisabeth Dennys". The Guardian, 10 February 1999. Retrieved 16 April 2011.
  16. ↑ CIA Kids Page - History - Virginia Hall
  17. ↑ Virginia Hall Goillot (1906 - 1982) - Find A Grave Memorial
  18. ↑ Former OSS Agent, Sea Captain : Actor Sterling Hayden Dies at 70 - Los Angeles Times
  19. ↑ Mary Katherine Herbert (1903 - 1983) - find A Grave Memorial
  20. ↑ Swedish Spies: Swedish Spies for the Soviet Union, Jan Guillou, Jane Horney, Karin Lannby, Erika Wendt, Hkan Isacson by LLC Books : 9781157957416 | HomeShop19.com Books
  21. ↑ Ron Jeffery by Ben Stacy Jerrik (Editor) - New, Rare & Used Books Online at Alibris Marketplace
  22. ↑ Captain S. Payne Best, "The Venlo Incident", first published by Hutchinson & Co,1950. p9
  23. ↑ British Intelligence and the Nazi Recruit |History Today
  24. ↑ Jan Kowalewski by Timoteus Elmo |9786138225362| Barnes & Noble
  25. ↑ Andrew Kennedy (1912 - 1988) - Find A Grave Memorial
  26. ↑ Stockholm - The Casablanca of the North - Radio Sweden |Sveriges Radio
  27. ↑ Kazimierz Leski Honorary Citizen of Warsaw
  28. ↑ THE OLDEST BOY OF BRITISH INTELLIGENCE - New York Times
  29. ↑ Ian Fleming - Biography - IMDb
  30. ↑ John Moe - Telegraph
  31. ↑ "People's War", BBC. Retrieved 10 September 2010.
  32. ↑ Eileen Nearne, Wartime Spy, Dies at 89
  33. ↑ Admitted Soviet Spies: Whittaker Chambers, Elizabeth Bentley, Aldrich Ames, Alexandru Nicolschi, Louis F. Budenz, David Greenglass, John Anth
  34. ↑ Maureen Patricia O'Sullivan (1918 - 1994) - Find A Grave Memorial
  35. ↑ Women in Old World Archaeology
  36. ↑ Fleming
  37. ↑ Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., a Partisan Historian of Power, Is Dead at 89 - New York Times
  38. ↑ Peter Smithers Dies at 92; Spy With a Green Thumb - New York Times
  39. ↑ 6-Violette Szabo memorial tour - World War Two Heritage
  40. ↑ Nigel West
  41. ↑ WW2 spy always had her lipstick, revolver - Canada - CBC News
  42. ↑ Jim Thompson House in Bangkok a testimony to his interesting life and mysterious death - Travel - The Boston Globe
  43. ↑ Ted Tinling, Designer, dies at 79;A Combiner of Tennis and Lace - New York Times
  44. ↑ Klop: Britain's Most Ingenious Spy by Peter Day review - Jona von Ustinov's gripping story |Books|Entertainment|Daily Express
  45. ↑ Records of the Foreign Office: Permanent Under Secretary's Department files|The National Archives
  46. ↑ Pearl Cornioley, Resistance Fighter Who Opposed the Nazis, Is Dead at 93 - New York Times
  47. ↑ F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas - SOE Agents in France


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