Cloak Dagger

Did Novelist John Steinbeck Spy for the CIA in Paris?

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

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Умница

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

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

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‘WORSE THAN MURDER’

Could Secret Cables Have Saved Ethel Rosenberg?

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

BEHIND ENEMY LINES

The Allied Spies Who Paved the Way for D-Day

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

Christopher Dickey

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ENDSPELL

The Codebreakers Who Exposed Soviet Spies–and Fed Paranoia

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