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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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The Americans
The Americans debuted on FX on January 30, and I’ve got to say that I quite liked it. Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell play “Phillip and Elizabeth Jennings,” two officers from the Soviet KGB who have been sent to the … Continue reading
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How Realistic is Argo?
When it comes to spy fiction, the question inevitably gets asked “how realistic is it?” A leading scholar of intelligence, Professor Wesley Wark, has said that one can discern two different types of realism. The first type of realism involves … Continue reading
Posted in History, In The News, SPY at The Movies, Uncategorized
Tagged agent, Argo, Ben Affleck, Canadians, CIA, declassified, hostage, Spy, Tony Mendez
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