Popular among the Germans as “Artemis,” Hall was an American spy with the Special Operations Executive during World War II in the 1940s and later on for the Office of the Strategic Services and the Special Activities Division of the CIA. Despite the fact that her leg was amputated from the knee down, her clandestine […]

Richard Sorge was a German communist and spy who worked for the Soviet Union. He gained great fame among espionage enthusiasts for his intelligence gathering during World War II. He worked as a journalist in both Germany and Japan, where he was imprisoned for spying and eventually hanged. Born October 4, 1895 in Baku, Russia,

“The Ace of Spies” and the model for James Bond 007, Sidney is considered to be the first 20th-century super-spy. Though he was also known for his many aliases including Salomon, Sidney Rosenblaum, and Shlomo yet his birth name was actually Georgi Rosenblaum and he was a Jewish Russian-born secret agent employed by the Scotland

One of the most famous spies in history, Margaretha Geertruida Zelle was a high-class courtesan who used her charms to gather information from her clientele of high-ranking military men and others of powerful positions in many countries during World War I. Mata Hari was executed by the French in 1917 for espionage. Though there was

Frederick Joubert Duquesne volunteered to spy for Germany for both World Wars due to his hatred of the British, specifically their treatment of Boer children and women. Known for the moniker “Black Panther,” he also claimed to have sabotaged and sunk the HMS Hampshire, which carried Lord Kitchener on his way to Russia in 1916.

A Dutch scholar of Oriental cultures and languages, Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje was not only a leading authority on Islam, but was also a famous spy who used his knowledge of Islam and the Aceh culture in ending the 40-year Aceh War. Under the name “Haji Abdul Ghaffar,” he gathered intelligence and devised strategies that significantly

Thomas Miller Beach was an English spy who enlisted in the Northern army during the American Civil War. His services enabled the British Government to take measures which led to the fiasco of the Canadian invasion of 1870 and Kiel’s surrender in 1871. He supplied full details concerning the various Irish-American associations, in which he

A well-born Richmond, resident of Virginia, Elizabeth Van Lew operated a widespread spy ring for the United States during the American Civil War from 1864 to 1865. She earned the “Crazy Bet” moniker for effectively posing as mentally ill by wearing old clothes and bonnets so that people might think that she was crazy. Elizabeth

A spy for the Confederate Army in North Carolina, Pigott organized fishermen to spy for her as she hid secret messages in her skirt and carried them from New Bern through the sea ports to be transmitted to the proper authorities. Though she had been arrested by the Union forces several times on charges of

Maria Isabella Boyd or the “Cleopatra of the Secession,” was a Confederate spy during the American Civil War operating from her father’s hotel, the Front Royal. She conveyed valuable information to General Stonewall Jackson in 1862 through her slave Eliza Hopewell as she charmed military secrets out of one of her Union sentries. She was

A slave owned by William Armistead of Virginia, he became the first African-American double agent during the American Revolution. He volunteered in 1781 to join the army under General Lafayette after getting the consent of his master. His first mission was to spy on Brig. Gen. Benedict Arnold, who had defected from the Continental Army

John André (2 May 1750—2 October 1780) was a BritishArmy officer hanged as a spy by the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War for assisting Benedict Arnold’s attempted surrender of the fort at West Point, New York to the British.Andre was a favourite in colonial society during the British occupation in both Philadelphia and

Famously known as the “first American spy,” Hale was a soldier for the continental Army during the American Revolutionary War in 1775. He was officially designated the state hero of Connecticut after he had volunteered to go behind enemy lines and observe the movements of the British during the Battle of Long Island. Disguised as