List of spymasters explained

A spymaster is a leader of a group of spies or an intelligence agency.[1]

List of spymasters

NameWhenAllegiance Agency/Organization/Service
Motojiro Akashi1904Akashi Kikan
Vera Atkins1944 United KingdomSpecial Operations Executive
Lavrentiy Beria1938NKVD
Arturo Bocchini1927–1940 Fascist ItalyOVRA
Wilhelm Canaris1935Abwehr
Thomas Cromwell1533
William J. Donovan1941 United StatesOffice of Strategic Services
Armand Jean du Plessis (Cardinal Richelieu)1616
Allen Dulles1953 United StatesCentral Intelligence Agency
Zhou Enlai1928–1932 Chinese Communist PartySpecial Service section of the Central Committee
Urban Work Committee of the Central Committee
Rafaat Gebril1973 EgyptGeneral Intelligence Directorate (Egypt)
Ali Mamlouk2005–present National Security Bureau
General Intelligence Directorate (Syria)
Sándor Goldberger (alias J. Peters)1930–1948Communist Party USA
Sidney Gottlieb1951–1973Central Intelligence Agency
Hamid Gul1987–1989 PakistanDirector-General of Inter-Services Intelligence
Faiz Hameed2019 PakistanDirector-General of Inter-Services Intelligence
Isser Harel1952–1963 IsraelMossad
R. N. Kao1968–1977 IndiaResearch and Analysis Wing
Ronnie Kasrils1983–1989
2004–2008		 South Africa
Umkhonto we Sizwe
Minister of Intelligence Services
David Kimche1953–1980 IsraelMossad
Ivone Kirkpatrick1918–1918 United KingdomBritish Army, Belgian resistance
Maxwell Knight1924–1930MI5
Dai Li1928–1946National Revolutionary Army
Colin Hercules Mackenzie1940–1946Special Operations Executive – Force 136
Yuri Modin1948–1951NKVD
Hugh Montgomery1953–1981 (CIA)1981–1985 (INR)
1989–2014 (CIA)		 United StatesCentral Intelligence AgencyBureau of Intelligence and Research
Bhola Nath Mullik1950–1964 IndiaIntelligence Bureau
Donald Nichols1951 United States6004th Air Intelligence Service Squadron
Manuel Piñeiro1961–1964 CubaDirección de Inteligencia
Allan Pinkerton1855–1861 United StatesUnion Intelligence Service
Wang Puchen1948–1949Bureau of Investigation and Statistics
Pyotr Rachkovsky1885–1902Okhrana
Alfred Redl1903–1913

Evidenzbureau
Mao Renfeng1946–1956Bureau of Investigation and Statistics
Semyon Semyonov1937–1950NKVD
Kang Sheng1940s–1946 Chinese Communist PartyCentral Social Affairs Department
Hugh Sinclair1919–1939 United KingdomSecret Intelligence Service
Mansfield Smith-Cumming1909–1923 United KingdomSecret Intelligence Service
Richard Sorge1920–1941Main Intelligence Directorate
Sidney Souers1946–1946 United StatesDirector of the Central Intelligence Agency
Gustav Steinhauer1911–1914 GermanyNachrichten-Abteilung
William Stephenson1940–1946 CanadaBritish Security Co-ordination
Emanuel Sueyro–1629 Spain
Benjamin Tallmadge1778–1783 United StatesCulper Ring
John Thurloe1653
Liam Tobin1919Irish Republican Army
Francis Walsingham1573–1590
George Washington1775 United StatesContinental Army
William Wickham1795–1801 United Kingdom
Markus Wolf1951–1986Main Directorate for Reconnaissance
Shen Zui1934–1949Bureau of Investigation and Statistics
Kyrylo Budanov2020-Present UkraineMain Directorate of Intelligence (Ukraine)

See also

References

  1. Web site: 2024-04-21 . Definition of SPYMASTER . 2024-05-31 . www.merriam-webster.com . en.

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