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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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Two Notable Passings
The Washington Post of January 2 contained news of two notable passings that I thought I’d bring to your attention. First, Jeanne Vertefeuille, died on December 29, 2012 at age 80. Her passing was marked with just a simple death notice. … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Aldrich Ames, Argo, CIA, Intelligence, Jeanne Vertefeuille, John Sheardown, Mark Lijek, Robert Wright, Sandy Grimes, Tony Mendez, Washington Post
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Intelligence is a Team Sport
The Washington Post ran a remarkable article on December 10 about “Maya,” as we now know the CIA targeter who played the central role in finding Bin Laden. Her big insight was to analyze Bin Laden’s courier networks, rather than, … Continue reading
Sneak Peak: The Watchers- The Rise of America’s Surveillance State
SPY speaks with author Shane Harris about his assertion the American government still can’t discern future threats in the vast data cloud, but can now spy on its citizens with an ease that was impossible and illegal just a few … Continue reading
The Mata Hari Myth
Dr. Thomas Boghardt, Historian The world of intelligence is populated by intriguing, amazing, and occasionally outright bizarre characters. One of my favorites remains Margaretha Geertruida Zelle, aka Mata Hari. She fascinates me not so much because of her espionage career, … Continue reading
Posted in History
Tagged Espionage, Exotic Dancer, Female Spies, Greta Garbo, Intelligence, Mata Hari, Seductress, Sisterhood of Spies, Spy, World War I
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