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. I typically read…
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. I typically read…
https://youtu.be/wx1Yf2j-lmAOperation NEPTUNE was a 1964 disinformation operation run by the Czechoslovakian security service known as the Státní bezpečnost, or StB. The intent was to target the West German government and…
https://youtu.be/0esICdNUZ6kHollywood film producer, Soviet spy, and FBI double agent Boris Morros is one of the most unlikely figures in espionage history.Boris was born in Russia to a poor Jewish family…
https://youtu.be/QgSuKFenxs4Ethel Gee and her boyfriend Harry Houghton smuggled sensitive information out of a Royal Navy facility in Portland, United Kingdom and provided it to a KGB agent known to them…
https://youtu.be/W_o7P1FyMs4 Michal Goleniewski was a Colonel in the Polish Ministry of Public Security and one of the most valuable spies to ever work for the US. He first contacted the…
https://youtu.be/rV39uztC7MsJames Jesus Angleton was the head of counterintelligence at the Central Intelligence Agency for more than 20 years from the 1950s through the early 1970s. He has been described as…
https://youtu.be/0aI1MD4POfU Polish spy Marian Zacharski was escorted across the famed “Bridge of Spies” near Potsdam, East Germany in 1985 after spending the previous four years in prison on a life…
https://youtu.be/Ud3XqR7WuvY Army Special Forces Soldier David Arturo Baez Cruz defected to Nicaragua to fight alongside the Sandinista forces in 1980. David was born in Nicaragua into a fiercely patriotic family.…
https://youtu.be/wbR-Hu-cSQo Donald Nichols arrived in South Korea as a 23-year-old NCO fresh out of counterintelligence school. Despite a lack of education, he turned out to be an incredibly gifted intelligence…
https://youtu.be/p__MopMY5pc Members of the US Military Liaison Mission frequently went on dangerous reconnaissance missions inside East Germany, in full uniform. From 1947 until 1990, each of the four major powers…