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Read more about the article The Ultimate Spycraft and Espionage Reading List

The Ultimate Spycraft and Espionage Reading List

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  • Post published:April 25, 2022
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    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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Read more about the article Unbreakable: 949 Days in a Cuban Prison
From left – Anderson, Christ, and Szuminski the day after their arrest in Havana.

Unbreakable: 949 Days in a Cuban Prison

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  • Post published:March 11, 2022
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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…

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Read more about the article Spies in Uniform: The US Military Liaison Mission in East Germany

Spies in Uniform: The US Military Liaison Mission in East Germany

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  • Post published:March 9, 2022
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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…

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Hidden Rubles in a Hollow Brick

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  • Post published:September 29, 2021
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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…

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Leave No Trace: Disguising Footprints in the Jungles of Southeast Asia

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  • Post published:September 25, 2021
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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…

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Kate, the Pistol-Packing Plainclothes Paratrooper

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  • Post published:September 20, 2021
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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…

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D-21: The Ramjet-Powered Supersonic Spy Drone

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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…

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Read more about the article Double Agent Down Under: Kay Marshall and the KGB

Double Agent Down Under: Kay Marshall and the KGB

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  • Post published:September 10, 2021
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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…

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East German Sedan with a Secret

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  • Post published:September 6, 2021
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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…

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The Flying Dragon of the OSS

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  • Post published:September 4, 2021
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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…

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