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fromSmithsonian Magazine
2 weeks ago

A Quaker Woman Eavesdropped on British Soldiers Plotting a Surprise Attack-and Surreptitiously Warned George Washington

Lydia Darragh, a pacifist Quaker, abandoned her religious principles to spy for the Continental Army during the American Revolution, providing crucial intelligence that may have saved soldiers' lives.
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fromOpen Culture
1 month ago

The Greatest Double Agent Ever: How a Spanish Chicken Farmer Became the Most Important Double Agent in WWII

Juan Pujol García, a Barcelona chicken farmer, became WWII's most important double agent by creating a fictional spy persona loyal to Nazi Germany while actually serving the Allies, receiving over $6 million in payments for fabricated intelligence.
Television
fromVulture
1 month ago

Traitors UK Has Landed on Peacock

Peacock releases all 12 episodes of Traitors UK season four Thursday morning, offering viewers continuous content following the U.S. finale, with an upcoming NBC all-civilian American version launching fall.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Aldrich Ames obituary

Aldrich Ames, who has died in prison aged 84, was the most senior CIA officer ever to be exposed as a Russian spy. Ames betrayed more than 30 allied agents, at least 10 of whom were executed by the classic KGB punishment of a bullet in the back of the head, and more than 100 clandestine US and British espionage operations.
World news
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Secret love letter shows softer side of Cambridge spy ring's alleged fifth man

It was a love letter written by one of the more important British spies of the cold war that made Tom Brass realise he had never fully known his mother. The spy in question was John Cairncross, the alleged fifth man in the Cambridge spy ring, whose spycraft also helped the Soviets win the Battle of Kursk and turn the tide of the second world war.
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