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Melita Stedman Norwood (née Sirnis Latvian:; 25 March 1912 – 2 June 2005) was a British civil servant, Communist Party of Great Britain member and KGB spy.. Born to a British mother and Latvian father, Norwood is most famous for supplying the Soviet Union with state secrets concerning the development of atomic weapons from her job at the British Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association ...
Anna Chapman. Anna Vasilyevna Chapman (‹See Tfd› Russian: А́нна Васи́льевна Ча́пман; born Anna Vasilyevna Kushchenko, 23 February 1982) is a Russian intelligence agent, media personality, and model who was arrested in the United States on 27 June 2010 as part of the Illegals Program, a Russian spy ring. At the time of ...
The following is a list of female agents who served in the field for the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II. SOE's objectives were to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in occupied Europe (and later, also in occupied Southeast Asia) against the Axis powers, and to aid local resistance movements.
Ursula Kuczynski (15 May 1907 – 7 July 2000), [1] also known as Ruth Werner, Ursula Beurton and Ursula Hamburger, was a German Communist activist who spied for the Soviet Union during the 1930s and 1940s, most famously as the handler of nuclear scientist Klaus Fuchs. [2][3] She moved to East Germany in 1950 when Fuchs was unmasked, and ...
Madeleine Damerment. Anne Dawson (secret agent) Elizabeth Devereux-Rochester. Velvalee Dickinson. Maria Dobrova. Juliette Dodu. Madame d'Oettlinger. Nancy Hart Douglas. Rachel Dübendorfer.
Maria Valerievna Butina[a] (‹See Tfd› Russian: Мари́я Вале́рьевна Бу́тина; born 10 November 1988) is a Russian politician, political activist, journalist, and former entrepreneur who was convicted in 2018 of acting as an unregistered foreign agent of Russia within the United States. [1][2][3] Butina worked as an ...
Maria Krystyna Janina Skarbek, OBE , GM (Polish pronunciation: [krɨˈstɨna ˈskarbɛk], / krɪstiːnəskɑːrbɛk /; 1 May 1908 [ a ][ b ][ 4 ] – 15 June 1952), also known as Christine Granville, [ 2 ] was a Polish agent of the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second World War. She became celebrated for her daring ...
Lyudmila Mikhailovna Pavlichenko (Russian: Людмила Михайловна Павличенко; Ukrainian: Людмила Михайлівна Павличенко, romanized: Lyudmyla Mykhailivna Pavlychenko, née Belova; 12 July [O.S. 29 June] 1916 – 10 October 1974) was a Soviet sniper in the Red Army during World War II.