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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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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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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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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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Top 10 Espionage Films According to the International Spy Museum
In honor of the 10th anniversary of the Spy Museum coming up on July 19th, we compiled a list of the top ten films that get our operatives pumped up for missions. Consider this list your first assignment on the … Continue reading
Posted in Top Ten
Tagged Espionage, matt damon, Movies, sean connery, Spy, thrillers, tom cruise
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Today in SPY History: Conviction of the Spy Who Wasn’t
Dr. Thomas Boghardt, Historian In 1894 the French army obtained a letter revealing that a high-ranking officer was selling secrets to Germany. Suspicion fell on Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer. Ignoring the fact that Dreyfus’ handwriting did not match … Continue reading
A Mysterious Visit
Dr. Thomas Boghardt, Historian The International Spy Museum’s permanent exhibition ends with the following quote: “The most successful spies—those too clever to be caught, too loyal to defect, too shrewd to speak up—will never be recognized, their missions never revealed.” … Continue reading
Intelligence Online
Dr. Thomas Boghardt, Historian Intelligence agencies are facing two principal challenges—the acquisition of secret information, and its twin, the peril of information overload. The difficulty of finding the proverbial needle in the haystack has exponentially grown since the introduction … Continue reading