Spycraft Legends
The world's most famous real-life spies, double agents, resistance operatives, atomic spies, and intelligence legends.
24 faces
Who's in this deck?24 names — peek before you play
Mata Hari
Dancer and alleged German spy · World War I espionage
Margaretha Geertruida MacLeod, better known by the stage name Mata Hari, was a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who was convicted of being a spy for Germany during World War I. She was executed by firing squad in France.
Richard Sorge
Soviet spy in Japan during World War II · Soviet intelligence
Richard Gustavovich Sorge was a German-Russian journalist and Soviet military intelligence officer who was active before and during World War II and worked undercover as a German journalist in both Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. His codename was "Ramsay" (Рамза́й).
Kim Philby
British intelligence officer and Soviet double agent · Cambridge Five
Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby was a British intelligence officer and a double agent for the Soviet Union. In 1963, he was revealed to be a member of the Cambridge Five, a spy ring that had divulged British secrets to the Soviets during World War II and in the early stages of the Cold War.
Guy Burgess
British diplomat and Soviet double agent · Cambridge Five
Guy Francis de Moncy Burgess was a British diplomat and Soviet double agent, and a member of the Cambridge Five spy ring that operated from the mid-1930s to the early years of the Cold War era.
Donald Maclean
British diplomat and Soviet double agent · Cambridge Five
Donald Duart Maclean was a British diplomat and Soviet double agent who participated in the Cambridge Five spy ring. After being recruited by a Soviet agent as an undergraduate student, Maclean entered the civil service. In 1938, he was appointed as Third Secretary at the British embassy in Paris.
Oleg Gordievsky
KGB officer who spied for Britain · KGB / MI6
Oleg Antonovich Gordievsky was a colonel of the KGB who became KGB resident-designate (rezident) and bureau chief in London and a British spy.
Aldrich Ames
CIA officer convicted of spying for the Soviet Union and Russia · CIA / KGB
Aldrich Hazen Ames was an American counterintelligence officer with the Central Intelligence Agency who was convicted of espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union and Russia in 1994.
Robert Hanssen
FBI agent convicted of spying for Soviet and Russian intelligence · FBI / Soviet intelligence
Robert Philip Hanssen was an American Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services intermittently against the United States from 1979 to 2001.
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
American couple convicted in a Cold War atomic spy case · Atomic espionage
Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg were an American married couple who were convicted of spying for the Soviet Union, including providing top-secret information about American radar, sonar, jet propulsion engines, and nuclear weapon designs.
Klaus Fuchs
Physicist who passed nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union · Atomic espionage
Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs was a German theoretical physicist, atomic spy, and communist who supplied information from the American, British, and Canadian Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after World War II.
Sidney Reilly
Early 20th-century spy known as the Ace of Spies · British intelligence
Sidney George Reilly, fictionalized as the "Ace of Spies", was a Russian-born adventurer and secret agent employed by Scotland Yard's Special Branch and later by the Foreign Section of the British Secret Service Bureau, the precursor to the modern British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6/SIS).
Virginia Hall
Allied spy and resistance organizer in occupied France · SOE / OSS
Virginia Hall Goillot DSC, Croix de Guerre,, code name Bookworm, was an American who worked with the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) and the American Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in France during World War II.
Noor Inayat Khan
SOE wireless operator in occupied France · Special Operations Executive
Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan, GC, also known as Nora Inayat-Khan and Nora Baker, was a British-Indian agent in France in the Second World War who served in the Special Operations Executive (SOE).
Nancy Wake
Resistance courier and Allied special agent · French Resistance / SOE
Nancy Grace Augusta Wake,, also known as Madame Fiocca and Nancy Fiocca, was a New Zealand-born Australian nurse and journalist who joined the French Resistance and later the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II, and briefly pursued a postwar career as an intelligence officer in the Air Ministry.
Violette Szabo
SOE agent and wartime resistance heroine · Special Operations Executive
Violette Reine Elizabeth Szabo, GC was a British-French Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent during the Second World War and a posthumous recipient of the George Cross.
Eli Cohen
Israeli spy in Syria · Mossad
Eliyahu Ben-Shaul Cohen was an Egyptian-born Israeli spy. He is best known for his espionage work in Syria between 1961 and 1965, where he developed close relationships with the Syrian political and military hierarchy.
Markus Wolf
Chief of East Germany's foreign intelligence service · East German intelligence
Markus Johannes Wolf, also known as Mischa, was a German spymaster who served as the head of the Main Directorate for Reconnaissance, the foreign intelligence division of East Germany's Ministry for State Security. He was the Stasi's number two for 34 years, which spanned most of the Cold War.
Rudolf Abel
Soviet illegal resident spy in the United States · Soviet intelligence
William August Fisher, better known by the alias Rudolf Ivanovich Abel, was a Soviet intelligence officer. He adopted his alias to alert his Soviet KGB handlers when he was arrested in the USA on charges of espionage by the FBI in 1957.
Ana Montes
US intelligence analyst convicted of spying for Cuba · DIA / Cuban intelligence
Ana Belén Montes is an American former senior analyst at the United States Defense Intelligence Agency who spied on behalf of the Cuban government for 17 years.
Belle Boyd
Confederate spy during the American Civil War · Confederate espionage
Maria Isabella Boyd, best known as Belle Boyd was a Confederate spy in the American Civil War. She operated from her father's hotel in Front Royal, Virginia, and provided valuable information to Confederate General Stonewall Jackson in 1862.
Harriet Tubman
Abolitionist, scout, and Union intelligence operative · Union intelligence
Harriet "Moses" Tubman was an American abolitionist and social activist.
William J. Donovan
Founder of the Office of Strategic Services · OSS
William Joseph "Wild Bill" Donovan was an American soldier, lawyer, intelligence officer and diplomat.
Duško Popov
World War II double agent who inspired spy legends · MI6 / double agent
Dušan "Duško" Popov was a Serbian intelligence agent, lawyer and businessman who served as a double agent for MI6 during World War II.
Juan Pujol García
Double agent who misled Nazi Germany before D-Day · Double Cross System
Juan Pujol García, also known as Joan Pujol i García, was a Spanish spy who worked as a double agent loyal to the United Kingdom against Nazi Germany during World War II, when he relocated to Britain to carry out fictitious spying activities for the Germans.