Louis Budenz
Louis F. Budenz was an American labor activist, journalist, and decade-long communist spy.
Journalist and Spy
Featuring journalists who worked as spies and spies who used journalism as a cover.
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Mikhail Vasenkov
Mikhail Vasenkov was a freelance news photographer, adjunct professor, and Russian spy.
Pablo González
Pablo González is a Russian-Spanish journalist and an alleged agent of the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence agency.
Bjørn Hallstrøm
Bjørn Hallstrøm is a Norwegian marketing manager, TV producer, and self-proclaimed former CIA agent.
Aurel Neagu
Aurel Neagu was a sports journalist for the Sportul newspaper, published by the Romanian Communist Party. Neagu frequently covered women’s gymnastics in the 1970s and 1980s, including Olympic star Nadia Comăneci and her longtime coaches Béla and Márta Károlyi. In “Nadia Comăneci and the Secret Police: A Cold War Escape,” historian Stejărel Olaru details the relationship between sports and politics…
Sefton Delmer
Denis Sefton Delmer, known to his friends as “Tom,” was a journalist turned propagandist for the British government during the Second World War.
Richard Gott
Richard Gott is a British author, historian, and journalist.
Sylvia Rafael
Sylvia Rafael was a native of South Africa who, in her mid-20s, immigrated to Israel and began working for the Mossad, the country’s foreign intelligence service.
Robert Moore
Robert Moore is a British TV producer turned private spy, and the subject of a new podcast from Tortoise Media called Into The Dirt.
Hotsumi Ozaki
Hotsumi Ozaki was a Japanese journalist working for the Asahi Shimbun and Mainichi Shimbun, an advisor to Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe, and an informant for a Soviet intelligence officer named Richard Sorge.