Special relationship: the British spies who slept their way through Washington during World War II.(The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington)(Book review)Peterson, Britt
The top-secret British organization inspired James Bond and countless other spy movies—including Guy Ritchie’s latest comedic romp.
when Norwood was at the beginning of her espionage career. But a male superior dismissed her tip because he didn’t think women could be good spies (in 1940, he fired Maund for accusing him of incompetence). Though Norwood’s employers were suspicious of her ties to the Communist Party, ...
Women spies were determined to slay the evil empire and everything Hitler represented in the world. There was no mission they wouldn't sign up for as they put morality first, and their individual luxuries and privileges far behind. A modern creed of female behavior, spoken by former ...
The tenaciousness, the risk-taking, the cold-bloodedness and the towering self-confidence — the qualities that make a spymaster — eventually consume their carriers.The disciples in this book are the four future CIA directors who served under William J. “Wild Bill” Donovan in the Office of...
were engaged in gathering intelligence on the British-Allied war effort, which was then transmitted back to Berlin. But even though Garcia was in the pay of the Nazis, he was actually working as a British double agent under the codename Garbo. None of Garcia’s spies were real, and the ...
In 2008, The Times ranked George Orwell second among "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".Orwell's work remains influential in popular culture and in political culture, and the adjective "Orwellian" – describing totalitarian and authoritarian social practices – is part of the English ...
Angie and several dozen colleagues helped identify those who passed American and Allied secrets to the Soviet Union during and after World War II. Their work unmasked such infamous spies as the British intelligence officer Kim Philby, the British diplomat Donald Maclean, the German-born scientist Kl...
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold: Directed by Martin Ritt. With Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Oskar Werner, Sam Wanamaker. Instead of coming in from the Cold War, British agent Alec Leamas chooses to face another mission.
It was also the only one of his movies that he remade complete with title. But he decided to use the film to film a scene from British criminal history - the January 1911 "Siege of Sidney Street".There had been an incident in December 1910 when several Russian aliens were involved in ...