SOE Heroines: Female Spies Who Fought for the Liberation of France
Violette Szabo SOE agent memorial in front of Lambeth Palace. Photo: camerawalker. CC BY 3.0 DEED. Cropped Image. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by…
William King Harvey: America’s James Bond
Counterattack by Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces supported by T-34 tanks near Playa Giron during the Bay of Pigs invasion, 19 April 1961. Photo: Rumlin. CC BY 3.0 DEED. William King…
Oleg Penkovsky: The Spy Who Helped Save the World
President Kennedy meets with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in the Oval Office on 18 October 1962. The President knows but does not reveal that he is now aware of…
Aaron Bank: Father of the Green Berets
Aaron Bank standing alongside German defectors recruited for Operation Iron Cross in WW2. Bank is at left in the first rank Photo: US Army. De Oppresso Liber” — Motto of…
The Legacy of Antonin Scalia and the Intelligence Community
Associate Justice Antonin Scalia (2013). Photo: US Supreme Court Collection. Antonin Scalia, the late Supreme Court justice who died in 2016, was known for his originalist interpretation of the Constitution…
Eugene Fodor: Travel Writer and Spy
Monument “Thank you America” to remember freedom from Nazis by US Army in May 1945. This monument takes place at important Pilsner crossing “U Práce”. Photo: Ondrej.konicek. CC BY-SA 3.0.…
Bruce Dowding: The Aussie Hero of the French Resistance
An American officer and a French partisan in 1944. Photo: National Archives. “Throughout France, the Resistance had been of inestimable value in the campaign. Without their great assistance, the liberation…
The Master of Disguise: How Jonna Mendez Helped the CIA Outsmart the KGB
CIA seal in entrance of the CIA headquarters lobby. All warfare is based on deception.” — Sun Tzu, “The Art of War”. The Mission: Impossible franchise is famous for its…
Oleg Gordievsky: Cold War Double Agent
Oleg Gordievsky (right) with US President Ronald Reagan in 1987. Photo: Mary Anne Fackelman – Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. Oleg Gordievsky was a former colonel of the KGB who became…
Moe Berg: Baseball Player & Spy
Moe Berg. Photo: Central Intelligence Agency. Berg made himself unique so comparisons were impossible.” ― Nicholas Dawidoff, The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg. Morris (Moe)…