List of spymasters
A spymaster is the leader of a spy ring, run by a secret service.
Historical spymasters
- Hamid Gul (Director-General ISI 1987–1989) (Pakistan)
- Wilhelm Canaris (Germany)
- Michael Collins (Ireland)
- Isser Harel (Israel)
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Sengoku era Japan)
- Dai Li (Republic of China)
- William Stephenson, one of the real-life inspirations for James Bond (Canada)
- Markus Wolf, known as "Spymaster's Spymaster" (East Germany)
- France
- Cardinal Richelieu (Kingdom of France)
- Ernest Courtot de Cissey, minister and founder of the Deuxième Bureau (Third French Republic)
- India
- Russia
- Pyotr Rachkovsky, head of Okhrana (Russian Empire)
- Nikolay Pavlovich Ignatyev (Russian Empire)
- Joseph Peters (Soviet Union)
- Semyon Semyonov (Soviet Union)
- Lavrentiy Beria (Soviet Union)
- United Kingdom
- Francis Walsingham (Elizabethan England)
- Mansfield Smith-Cumming (United Kingdom)
- Vera-May Rosenberg aka Vera Atkins spymistress (UK World War II)
- William Wickham (England)
- United States
- James Jesus Angleton (CIA Counterintelligence)
- Allen Dulles (Director of Central Intelligence)
- Allan Pinkerton, Civil War and Gilded Age
- J. Edgar Hoover, historical head of FBI
- Benjamin Tallmadge, head of the Culper Ring in American Revolution
- George Washington, American Revolution
See also
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