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TOP HOLIDAY SPY GIFTS
The holidays are around the corner, give the gift of spy this season! Just for you, we have declassified our favorite gifts for everyone on your list. For the Spy Girl 1. Minimergency Kit – Talk about concealment! This kit … Continue reading
Posted in A Well-Read Spy, Ask A Spy, Intellegence Briefing, Tools of the Trade
Tagged Books, Christmas, clue, defection, Double Agent, enigma, Espionage, Female Spies, gadgets, gifts, gun alarm clock, holiday gifts, Intelligence, invisible ink, James Bond, jewelry, Ninja, Spy, spy toys, Surveillance, t-shirts, tees, Tony Mendez
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Dressed to Kill: Bond Villains Style
Whether it’s metal teeth, a piratical eye patch or fluffy cat, James Bond villains have a distinctive personal style, licenced to thrill! With our Sharks and Lasers: Bond Villains Night Out party only days away, we’ve rounded up our favorite … Continue reading
Posted in Ask A Spy, History, Uncategorized
Tagged 007, Bond villains, BYT, Dr. No, fashion, Gustav Graves, James Bond, Jaws, Le Chiffre, look, Max Zorin, May Day, party, Richard Kiel, Scaramanga, Sharks and Lasers, Spy Museum, style, villains, what to wear, Zao
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10 Amazing Facts About the Trabant
After WWII, East Germany had a hard time establishing a functioning industry. Not only had almost everything been destroyed during the war, but the Soviet Union dismantled most of the factories that were left. A steel embargo of the US, … Continue reading
Posted in Ask A Spy, History, In The News, Top Ten
Tagged Cold War, DDR, Deutsche Demokratische Republik, Espionage, GDR, German Democratic Republic, Government, Nostalgia, Spy, Trabant, Trabi
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Behind the Scenes – Celebrity Spies
For some of these big-name personalities, spying taught them the skills that made them famous; for others, being famous made them the perfect spies. With that in mind, we blow the cover of ten of our favorite celebrity spies: Josephine … Continue reading
Posted in A Well-Read Spy, Ask A Spy, History, In The News, Uncategorized
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CONSPIRACY OF ONE
Tyler Kent’s Secret Plot against FDR, Churchill, and the Allied War Effort How a handsome young American diplomat stole thousands of secret documents and nearly changed the course of World War II in this gripping story of espionage, love, and … Continue reading
Posted in A Well-Read Spy, History, In The News, Uncategorized
Tagged Bradley Manning, Cold War, England, Espionage, Hitler, Intelligence, London, MI5, Moscow, Roosevelt, Russia, secrets, State Department, Tyler Kent, Winston Churchill, WWII
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The Spy Photo That Fooled Us All
History is a tricky thing. And it turns out that we here at the International Spy Museum had part of it wrong. Our only excuse is that a lot of other fine institutions had it wrong, too, including NPR, the … Continue reading
Posted in A Well-Read Spy, Ask A Spy, History, In The News, Uncategorized
Tagged African-Americans, Army, Civil Rights, Confederate, Espionage, Intelligence, Lois Leveen, Mary Browser, photograph, slave, Spy, Union, US Army Intelligence, Van Lew
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The Whistleblower
Bradley Manning’s life just got worse. He is presently on trial at Fort Meade, Maryland on charges related to passing hundreds of thousands of classified documents to Wikileaks. He has admitted passing those documents, so there’s not a lot of … Continue reading
Posted in Cyber, History, In The News, Uncategorized
Tagged classified, crimes, data, debate, Government, Guardian, Intelligence, liberty, Manning, NSA, security, Snowden, Surveillance, Wikileaks
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America and Russia’s Long History of Espionage
As Russia and America deal with an alleged spy scandal involving a US diplomat who is accused of trying to recruit a Russian agent to work for the CIA, a look back at some espionage cases between the two countries … Continue reading
Posted in A Well-Read Spy, History, In The News, Uncategorized
Tagged CIA, Cold War, Intelligence, KGB, Russia, Ryan Fogle, Spy
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Cold War Pop Culture: Dirty Spy Wars
During the Cold War the American public had an endless appetite for information and entertainment about the menace from the Soviet secret services. Nazi spies had never really lived up to their promise and the Nazi regime had been rapidly … Continue reading
Posted in A Well-Read Spy, Ask A Spy, History, Uncategorized
Tagged Cold War, Communists, Espionage, evil, Intelligence, KGB, Russia, Russian, Soviet
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Cold War Pop Culture: Combating Commies
The Cold War was a period of fear in the United States. Not only did the threat of nuclear war loom over the country but there was a feeling that Communist subversives could be anywhere. During the first half of … Continue reading
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