Cases
Counterintelligence Cases Past and Present
The FBI has been investigating cases of foreign counterintelligence since its earliest days. The following is a sample of some major counterintelligence and economic espionage cases the FBI has helped investigate. In general, the cases are listed chronologically by the year the prime suspect was arrested.
Summaries of most of these cases can be found below.
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- Walter Kendall Myers and Gwendolyn Myers
- Ten Russian Agents in U.S. (Ghost Stories)
2009
- Harold & Nathaniel Nicholson | Harold Nicholson sentencing
2008
- Hassan Abujihaad/Paul R. Hall
- Dongfan “Greg” Chung, Gregg William Bergersen
2007
- Najib Shemami
- Sami Khoshaba Latchin (Arrested in 2004)
2006
- Xiaodong Sheldon Meng Conviction
2005
- Noshir S. Gowadia | Sentencing
- Leandro Aragoncillo | Michael Ray Aquino
- Lawrence Franklin
2004
- Kenneth Wayne Ford
- Donald W. Keyser
2001
- Robert P. Hanssen
- Ana Belen Montes
- Brian P. Regan
2000
- George Trofimoff
- Mariano Faget
1999
- Jean-Philippe Wispelaere
1998
- La Red Avispa or The Cuban Spy Ring
1997
- Kurt Alan Stand, Therese Marie Squillacote, and James Michael Clark
- Ten Hong Lee and Taiwan’s Four Pillars
1996
- Robert Stephan Lipka
- Earl Edwin Pitts
1994
- Aldrich Ames
1993
- Steven John Lalas
1988
- James Hall III
- Douglas Tsou
1986
- Edward Lee Howard
- Vladimir M. Ismaylov
- Clayton John Lonetree
1985
Because of a series of high profile espionage arrests, the press dubbed 1985 “the Year of the Spy.”That spring, the John Walker Spy Ring—John Walker, Jerry Whitworth, Arthur Walker, and Michael Walker—was arrested for passing classified material to the Soviet Union. On November 21, Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard was arrested for spying for Israel. On November 23, Larry Wu-Tai Chin, a former CIA analyst, was arrested on charges of spying for the People’s Republic of China since 1952. On November 25, former National Security Agency employee Ronald William Pelton, was arrested for selling military secrets to the Soviets. CIA employee Sharon Marie Scranage and boyfriend Michael Soussoudis were arrested in July for passing material to Ghanian intelligence.
1984
- Thomas Cavanagh
- Karl Frantisek Koecher
- Richard W. Miller and Svetlana and Nikolai Ogorodnikov
1983
- James Durwood Harper
1981
- William Holden Bell and Marian Zacharski
1978
- Valdik Enger and Rudolf Chernyayev
- William Kampiles
- Ronald Humphrey and David Truong
1977
- Christopher John Boyce and Andrew Daulton Lee
1972
- “Sergey Viktorovich Petrov”
1954
- Maksim Martynov
1950
1946
- Teodore Erdmann Erich Lau/Ludwig Spy Ring
1944
- Velvalee Dickinson | Byte Out of History
1943
- Vasilli Zubilin
1942
- George John Dasch and Nazis
- Anastase A. Vonsiatsky
1941
- Duquesne Spy Ring
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