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Did Novelist John Steinbeck Spy for the CIA in Paris?

DUBIOUS BATTLE

During 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.

Christopher Dickey | Published Jul 31, 2019

The ‘Red Spy Queen’ Who Shocked America—and the Soviets

Умница

The 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.

Christopher Dickey | Published Jul 28, 2019

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.

Christopher Dickey | Published Jul 06, 2019

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The Allied Spies Who Paved the Way for D-Day

BEHIND ENEMY LINES

Secret agents—women and men—died making it possible for the Allies to storm through France. It's time to remember them.

Christopher Dickey | Published Jun 01, 2019

The Codebreakers Who Exposed Soviet Spies–and Fed Paranoia

ENDSPELL

Schoolteachers, archeologists, linguists and mathematicians worked on the Venona project breaking unbreakable Soviet code from WWII. They were heroes. But some had deep regrets.

Christopher Dickey | Published May 26, 2019

The Great Russia Witch Hunt (of 1949)

CLOAK & DAGGER

Was a top State Department aide truly a Soviet spy? Or did Richard Nixon and the right find a convenient victim?

Christopher Dickey | Published May 19, 2019

The Spy Who Started the Cold War

CLOAK AND DAGGER

Igor 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.

Christopher Dickey | Published May 11, 2019

The Beauty Who Led Israel’s First Spy Ring

Roots of a Nation

A century ago Sarah Aaronsohn was at the center of one of the most dangerous —and most effective—intelligence gathering operations in the Middle East.

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The Train Robbery That Almost Won the Civil War

SOUTHERN STRATEGY

Union soldiers paid with their lives for their failed theft of a locomotive—and became America’s first Medal of Honor winners for their heroics.

Marc Wortman | Published Jun 03, 2017

Devil in the City of Light

ANTIHERO

Robin 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?

AD BY The Daily Beast | Published May 14, 2017

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