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/0E7RSSu2KbcDickie Manson was an 11-year-old Australian boy convicted of espionage by the Imperial Japanese Navy and executed in 1942. Dickie’s stepfather Ted Harvey owned a plantation near Rabaul, Papua New…
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…
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…
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/V3XTEspI2JM David Christ, Thornton Anderson, and Walter Szuminski were arrested in Havana when they were caught dead to rights in the middle of installing clandestine audio equipment to monitor the…
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…