Category Archives: A Well-Read Spy

Q&A with Author Rick Bowers

Author Rick Bowers spoke recently at the Museum’s Spies of the Civil Rights Movement program.  Here he answers some questions concerning the program and his book Spies of Mississippi: The True Story of the Spy Network that Tried to Destrpy the Civil … Continue reading

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SPY Historians Featured in Intelligence Journal

January 11, 2011 Mark Stout, SPY Historian The breadth of espionage-related history scholarship is apparent in two recent articles featuring the work of the International Spy Museum’s Historian, Dr. Mark Stout and its previous Historian, Dr. Thomas Boghardt. Both appear … Continue reading

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Bulgaria's Assassination Squad

December 10, 2010 Mark Stout, SPY Historian Alexenia Dimitrova is one of the leading investigative journalists in Bulgaria, where she works for the second largest daily newspaper, 24 Hours.  She has made a specialty of reporting on Bulgaria’s Communist-era intelligence … Continue reading

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Former SPY Historian on East German Intelligence

November 24, 2010 Mark Stout, SPY Historian A great deal has been written about the Stasi’s internal intelligence operations and a compelling movie, The Lives of Others , brought the topic to the big screen in a realistic way. However, … Continue reading

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SPY Movie: The Third Man

SPY’s Book Specialist, Matt Arnold, reviews a classic spy film. In the lobby of the International Spy Museum is a large black and white image of a man bathed in shadow.   Enveloping him in this darkness is post-World War II … Continue reading

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