This lady was the most wanted spy of WWII
Virginia Hall was born in 1906 in Baltimore, Maryland, to wealthy parents. As a young girl, she often felt like she didn’t fit in well. She enjoyed the fishing, hunting, and outdoor…
9 infamous KGB assassination attempts straight out of spy novels
It’s well known that the fearsome Soviet spy agency, the KGB, used brutal tactics to eliminate and intimidate rivals.
Legend has it that when Soviet diplomats were kidnapped by terrorists in Lebanon in the mid-1980s, KGB officers kidna…
Today in military history: Captured U-2 pilot exchanged for Soviet spy
On Feb. 10, 1962, U.S. Spy plane pilot Francis Gary Powers was exchanged for a Russian spy during one of a tense period in the Cold War. In the late…
How spies use radio stations to communicate secrets
While spies typically try to hide as much of their communication as possible, there is one method of intelligence communication that is literally broadcasted so that everyone for thousands of miles around can listen in to the messages, but no one el…
7 life hacks from a former Intelligence Officer
The saying goes, “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.” Sometimes, however, it’s both. There are times in life when knowing the right person can give you knowledge that can change your outlook. Occasionally, we meet someone interesting wh…
Sabotage and subversion: How secret agents helped win WWII
In 1940, following the fall of France, Winston Churchill authorized the establishment of a volunteer fighting force to wage a secret war against Hitler’s armies. This unique force became known as the Special Operations Executive (SOE), and their ma…
5 spies that creatively destroyed the enemy
Spies sacrifice a normal life to provide their country with actionable intelligence. Their patriotism comes at the cost of risking life and limb, imprisonment, and public damnation. Often, they have to think outside the box to accomplish the mission…
10 ways North Korea keeps citizens ignorant about outside world
How do you keep a country hermetically sealed off from the news in a world where the internet exists?
That’s the fundamental challenge for North Korea, the hermit kingdom whose citizens have been kept in the dark both literally and figurative…
US accuses Russian spy ship of ‘unsafe’ maneuvers off US east coast
The Viktor Leonov has patrolled international waters flanking Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina, every year since 2014, but since its arrival this week, it has sailed with no warning lights and ignored other ships, the US Coast Guard said in a ma…
Russian secret agents were reportedly stationed in villages in the French Alps
US and European intelligence agencies discovered Russian military intelligence members to be working from the French Alps, according to an NBC News
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