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Bugged?
While visiting Moscow to play the Russians in the historic Summit Series (in 197...
Burton Gerber: Picture This
"Burton Gerber, a 39-year veteran of the CIA, was running spy operations in Berl...
Wise Guy (long)
The Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman was also an accomplished safec...
Cheney Duped? (long)
Following the war in Iraq in 2003, the Senate Intelligence Committee began inves...
Forrestal's Conspiracy Theory
In 1949, Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, frustrated with bureaucratic resi...
KGBlooper
One summer day in 1986, the Russian journalist Nicholas Daniloff was speaking on...
Smith-Cumming?
"One of the common invisible inks is cobalt chloride dissolved in water. Invisib...
Greek Spy
"Steganography, the art of hidden writing, may date as far back as 312 BC, when,...
Mata Hari
In 1904 Mata Hari left her husband (a Dutch military officer), changed her name,...
Secret Police?
While serving as America's ambassador in Moscow, Averell Harriman was shadowed e...
Neils Bohr: Secret Cargo
While being smuggled out of Denmark in a British Mosquito fighter-bomber at the ...
Audrey Hepburn, 007
"In 1935 [six-year-old Audrey Hepburn] moved to Arnhem, in the Netherlands, with...
Great Seal
While serving as America's Ambassador to Moscow in 1945, Averell Harriman was gi...
Back-Office Oracle?
"The sport of dumpster diving - sifting through a rival's rubbish - is a way of ...
Niger Uranium and British I...
The Democrats' decision to support America's assault on Iraq in May 2003 was bas...
Element 94
"How element 94 [plutonium] eventually got the name plutonium is an interesting ...
Soviet Technology
BBC host John Simpson once had a memorable run-in with Soviet officials at Shere...
Confessions of a Dangerous ...
In his 1984 autobiography, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, one-time "Gon...
Acoustic Kitty
In 1966, the CIA hatched a plan to discover Russia's Cold War secrets by install...
Fink?
"In the 1940s, Fink - a Jerusalem bar and long-time meeting-ground for politicia...
Casablanca
"The Nazis were understandably anxious to kill Winston Churchill, Franklin Roose...
By Jeeves!
"The Germans, in their literal way, took P. G. Wodehouse's works as a guide to E...
Bush & Putin
"[Russian President Vladimir Putin] is not a man of imagination or spark... His ...
Moses, 001?
In 2002, a new International Spy Museum opened in Washington, DC. Among the exhi...
Official Secrets Act
One day in January 1979, Clement Freud delivered an address in the House of Comm...
Gambler's Fate
"During the Revolutionary War, a loyalist spy appeared at the headquarters of He...
Francis Gary Powers
On May 1, 1960, a CIA spy plane piloted by Captain Francis Gary Powers was shot ...
License to Cook?
One day during World War II, a woman joined the OSS (Office of Strategic Service...
Shadow
One day Arno Dosch-Fleurot, reporting from Russia in the years following the Rus...
Military Intelligence
In 1943, the British Royal Air Force (RAF) bombed a nondescript printing plant i...
Harpo Marx, 006?
Shortly after returning home from a six-week tour of the Soviet Union in 1933, H...
Secret Agent
"Dion Clayton Calthorp had a strong sense of atmosphere and liked to be in tune ...
Kissinger Close-Up
While visuting Moscow for a round of arms control negotiations in 1972, Secretar...
Farrar, Strauss & Co. (long)
During World War II, Farrar, Strauss & Co. had a curious arrangement whereby All...
Lucky Luciano
In 1936, legendary New York gangster Lucky Luciano, dubbed "the czar of organize...
Hairy Operation
Cuban dictator Fidel Castro was the target of many CIA plots. Among the most out...
Room 40
During World War I, Sir Alfred Ewing's legendary naval intelligence office 'Room...
Operation Silkworm
Emperor Justinian once bribed two Persian monks who had lived in China
to revis...
David Pesci: Chinese Apology
After an American spy plane crashed while flying in Chinese airspace in April 20...
Special Agent Vladimir Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin revealed very little about his tenure with the ...
KGB Files
Before ascending to the Russian presidency, Vladimir Putin served as an agent wi...
Von Papen
"Franz von Papen is probably the best example of a bungling idiot who continued ...
Crossword Overlord?
"In the months leading up to D-Day, the Daily Telegraph's crossword conta...
American Dream
Samuel Slater, born near Manchester in 1768, began working in a mill at the age ...
Bolton's Stovepipe
Following the war in Iraq in 2003, the Senate Intelligence Committee began inves...
Hans Augusto Rey: Wonderful...
"In 1940, [children's book author Hans Augusto Rey] and his wife were in Paris w...
Douglas Feith: Intelligence...
As of 9/11, America had no spies in Iraq and very few operatives with expertise ...
Once Upon a Time
"Delius returned to England from France in 1918 with a new orchestral work for t...
Ian Fleming: Likely Story
James Bond creator Ian Fleming and Robert Harling fought side by side during Wor...
Jerry Lewis, 008?
Jerry Lewis allegedly developed a novel spying technique of particular use to an...
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