The Ultimate Spycraft and Espionage Reading List
One of the questions I get asked most frequently is if I can recommend any good books on espionage. And the answer is yes, I definitely can. …
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From left – Anderson, Christ, and Szuminski the day after their arrest in Havana.
Unbreakable: 949 Days in a Cuban Prison
Unbreakable: 949 Days in a Cuban Prison The Mission In 1960, three technicians from the CIA’s Technical Services Division were dispatched to Havana, Cuba, to install surveillance equipment in…
Spies in Uniform: The US Military Liaison Mission in East Germany
Spies in Uniform: The US Military Liaison Mission in East Germany Beginning in 1947, a fascinating and little-known chapter of the Cold War opened in West Berlin with the establishment…
Hidden Rubles in a Hollow Brick
Disguised objects for use as dead drop containers required an incredible amount of research, experimentation, and testing before they could be used for high-risk operations in the field. The slightest imperfection could…
Leave No Trace: Disguising Footprints in the Jungles of Southeast Asia
These jungle boots with footprint soles were designed to disguise the presence of MACV SOG warriors on the Ho Chi Minh trail. Military Assistance Command Vietnam - Studies and Observation Group was…
Kate, the Pistol-Packing Plainclothes Paratrooper
Lance Corporal Sara-Jane Warke was assigned to the Military Reaction Force, a special mission unit which operated in Northern Ireland during the Troubles in the 1970s. The MRF is a…
D-21: The Ramjet-Powered Supersonic Spy Drone
Beginning in 1962, the legendary research & development powerhouse at Lockheed known as the Skunk Works started to develop a supersonic drone that could do the work of a CIA-flown A-12 or…
Double Agent Down Under: Kay Marshall and the KGB
In 1958, a Soviet diplomat and KGB agent named Everly Lutsky approached Kay Marshall, who worked as a passport officer for the British High Commission in New Zealand and asked her to…
East German Sedan with a Secret
The East German Stasi were infamous for their creation of a near-total surveillance state during the Cold War. Besides their enormous and allencompassing human intelligence network, which involved a significant fraction of the…
The Flying Dragon of the OSS
The SAC-46 Flying Dragon Officially designated the SAC-46 Gun, Dart, Carbon Dioxide Propelled, the Flying Dragon was designed and prototyped beginning in 1943 but was not a high-priority project for…