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Did Novelist John Steinbeck Spy for the CIA in Paris?
DUBIOUS BATTLEDuring the same summer that he wrote “The Amiable Fleas,” now published in English for the first time, the American author also appears to have been gathering intel for the Agency.
The ‘Red Spy Queen’ Who Shocked America—and the Soviets
УмницаThe only training she ever got as a spy was from her lover. But Elizabeth Bentley managed to manipulate the most feared secret police agency in the world—and intimidate the FBI.
Could Secret Cables Have Saved Ethel Rosenberg?
‘WORSE THAN MURDER’Even as Ethel Rosenberg was strapped into the electric chair for spying for Moscow in 1953, decrypted cables might have spared her. But they were released only decades later.
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The Allied Spies Who Paved the Way for D-Day
BEHIND ENEMY LINESSecret agents—women and men—died making it possible for the Allies to storm through France. It's time to remember them.
The Codebreakers Who Exposed Soviet Spies–and Fed Paranoia
ENDSPELLSchoolteachers, archeologists, linguists and mathematicians worked on the Venona project breaking unbreakable Soviet code from WWII. They were heroes. But some had deep regrets.
The Great Russia Witch Hunt (of 1949)
CLOAK & DAGGERWas a top State Department aide truly a Soviet spy? Or did Richard Nixon and the right find a convenient victim?
The Spy Who Started the Cold War
CLOAK AND DAGGERIgor Gouzenko was a lowly Soviet cipher clerk when he turned the world order upside down in 1945. Nobody could have predicted the espionage hysteria his defection would unleash.
The Beauty Who Led Israel’s First Spy Ring
Roots of a NationA century ago Sarah Aaronsohn was at the center of one of the most dangerous —and most effective—intelligence gathering operations in the Middle East.
The Train Robbery That Almost Won the Civil War
SOUTHERN STRATEGYUnion soldiers paid with their lives for their failed theft of a locomotive—and became America’s first Medal of Honor winners for their heroics.
Devil in the City of Light
ANTIHERORobin Hood or the French H.H. Holmes? Depicted as evil incarnate, 240 years ago Antoine Francois Desues executed for his crimes, but was he the monster his executioners claimed?