Spymaster

A spymaster is a ring leader of a spy ring, run by a secret service.

Historical spymasters

 * Dai Li (Republic of China)
 * Francis Walsingham (Elizabethan era England)
 * James Jesus Angleton (United States)
 * J. Edgar Hoover Longtime head of America's FBI (United States).
 * Joseph Peters (Soviet Union)
 * George Washington and the Culper Ring (United States)
 * 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)
 * Isser Harel (Israel)
 * 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)
 * David Kimche (Israel)

Fictional spymasters

 * Arvin Sloane, a character in the American TV series Alias
 * The fan community of the anime/manga Naruto places Jiraiya as the spymaster for the Village Hidden in the Leaves.
 * Lord Varys, the Master of Whisperers, is a spymaster of the King's Small Council in Westeros, from George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice And Fire.

Maestro de espías