Spymaster
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For other uses, see Spymaster (comics).
A spymaster is the leader of a spy ring, run by a secret service.
Historical spymasters
- Akhtar Abdur Rehman (Pakistan)
- Cardinal Richelieu (Kingdom of France)
- Dai Li (Republic of China)
- David Kimche (Israel)
- Francis Walsingham (Elizabethan era England)
- George Washington and the Culper Ring (United States)
- Hamid Gul (Pakistan)
- Isser Harel (Israel)
- J. Edgar Hoover Longtime head of FBI (United States)
- James Jesus Angleton (United States)
- Joseph Peters (Soviet Union)
- Mansfield Smith-Cumming (United Kingdom)
- Markus Wolf, known as "Spymaster's Spymaster" (East Germany)
- Michael Collins (Ireland)
- Nikolay Pavlovich Ignatyev (Russian Empire)
- R. N. Kao (India)
- Semyon Semyonov (Soviet Union)
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Sengoku era Japan)
- William Stephenson, one of the real-life inspirations for James Bond (Canada, United Kingdom)
- William Wickham (England)
- Vera-May Rosenberg aka Vera Atkins spymistress (UK WWII)
See also
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