South African espionage in Zimbabwe and the GukurahundiĪllegedly, an American officer who provided false information to Saddam HusseinĪ re-doubled agent is an agent who gets caught as a double agent and is forced to mislead the foreign intelligence service. Murdered by the Provisional IRA in County Louth in 1977. Convicted in 1979 and sentenced to life imprisonment for treason.Įgyptian businessman and an alleged spy for Israel, or possibly an Egyptian double agent managed to become celebrated as a hero in each country for his alleged work against the other.Īssassinated at his cottage in County Donegal after being exposed by a Northern Ireland newspaper, The Derry Journal. about the Soviet emplacement of missiles in Cuba executed by the Soviets in 1963.Īmong other things, handed over the entire Swedish "FO-code", a top secret list of Sweden's defence establishments, coastal artillery fortifications and mobilization stores. Worked for the FBI and sold information to the Soviet Union as a mole.Ī colonel with GRU informed the U.K. Oleg Gordievsky "Sunbeam" "Nocton" "Pimlico" "Ovation"Ībducted in Moscow in 1985 escaped to the United Kingdom two months later. Later joined the Belgian Resistance.Ĭoerced by the Abwehr into becoming a spy, exposed the Duquesne Spy Ring to the FBI. Member of Red Orchestra spy ring who, after being unmasked by the Gestapo in 1942, fed false information to the Soviet Union from August until his escape in November. Brother of Ivan Popov.īritish double agent in German spy service awarded both an MBE and an Iron Cross Held the rank of colonel in the British Army. Worked for the Yugoslavian agency VOA, as well as the British MI6 and the German Abwehr. Held the rank of Obersturmbannführer in the Gestapo. Ivan Popov "LaLa" "Aesculap" "Dreadnought" "Hans" Later sent back to Lisbon to persuade Abwehr officer, George Sessler, to defect and worked undercover in Brazil.įrench Air Force pilot who worked for the BritishĪnti-Nazi German intelligence officer and British double agent. Subjected to an intensive five-day interrogation in Hamburg and survived. He was so trusted by the Germans that he is reportedly the only British citizen to have ever been awarded the Iron Cross.Įx-RNAS officer sent to Lisbon and Germany to infiltrate the Abwehr, report on invasion plans for Britain, and establish the bona fides of Snow (subsequently imprisoned until the end of war). Infiltrated the German Abwehr during World War II whilst feeding intelligence to MI5. Double agents Examples of known double agents and moles Context They are often very trusted by the controlling organization since the target organization will give them true, but useless or even counterproductive, information to pass along. It is unlike a defector, who is not considered an agent as agents are in place to function for an intelligence service and defectors are not, but some consider that defectors in place are agents until they have defected.ĭouble agents are often used to transmit disinformation or to identify other agents as part of counter-espionage operations. The threat of execution is the most common method of turning a captured agent (working for an intelligence service) into a double agent (working for a foreign intelligence service) or a double agent into a re-doubled agent. ĭouble agentry may be practiced by spies of the target organization who infiltrate the controlling organization or may result from the turning (switching sides) of previously loyal agents of the controlling organization by the target. In the field of counterintelligence, a double agent is an employee of a secret intelligence service for one country, whose primary purpose is to spy on a target organization of another country, but who is now spying on their own country's organization for the target organization. JSTOR ( January 2010) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This article needs additional citations for verification.
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