Journalist and Spy

Louis Budenz

Louis F. Budenz was an American labor activist, journalist, and decade-long communist spy.

May 11 • Runa Sandvik

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December 2025

Mikhail Vasenkov

Mikhail Vasenkov was a freelance news photographer, adjunct professor, and Russian spy.

Dec 16, 2025 • Runa Sandvik

5

1

November 2025

Pablo González

Pablo González is a Russian-Spanish journalist and an alleged agent of the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence agency.

Nov 10, 2025 • Runa Sandvik

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1

October 2025

Bjørn Hallstrøm

Bjørn Hallstrøm is a Norwegian marketing manager, TV producer, and self-proclaimed former CIA agent.

Oct 20, 2025 • Runa Sandvik

4

November 2023

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…

Nov 20, 2023 • Runa Sandvik

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1

October 2023

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.

Oct 27, 2023 • Runa Sandvik

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2

September 2023

Richard Gott

Richard Gott is a British author, historian, and journalist.

Sep 27, 2023 • Runa Sandvik

2

August 2023

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…

Aug 17, 2023 • Runa Sandvik

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1

July 2023

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.

Jul 26, 2023 • Runa Sandvik

1

June 2023

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…

Jun 23, 2023 • Runa Sandvik

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1

May 2023

William F. Buckley Jr.

William F. Buckley Jr. was an American publisher, journalist, and political commentator who also worked closely with both the FBI and the CIA.

May 19, 2023 • Runa Sandvik

7

April 2023

Edith Tudor-Hart

Edith Tudor-Hart was an Austrian-British photographer and spy for the Soviet Union prior to and following World War II.

Apr 24, 2023 • Runa Sandvik

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