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The Portland Spy Ring
The Portland Spy Ring was one of the most notorious examples of the use of illegal residents as spies, who live in a foreign country without the protection of an embassy.
In this case the Soviet spy ring was operating in England between the late 1950s and 1961, with members including Ethel Gee, Harry Houghton and Gordon Lonsdale. The ring operated without being flagged until the CIA received a letter from a mole claiming that information was being communicated to the Soviets from the Admiralty Underwater Weapons Establishment in Portland, England. This is where the Royal Navy were testing its underwater warfare equipment. Read more »
Briefings
Posted July 29th, 2011
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The Profumo Affair
The sordid story of the Profumo Affair gives a fascinating insight into the impact that people’s personal lives can have on a nation when they make misguided decisions.
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Edward Scheidt and his way with codes
Edward Scheidt was a renowned cryprographer who was able to put his impressive skills to work during a period working for the CIA during the Cold War era.
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Alexandr Ogorodnik – the reluctant spy
In 1973, Soviet Diplomat Aleksandr Ogorodnik was blackmailed into spying for the CIA, who knew that he had a pregnant mistress.
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Herbert Boeckenhaupt’s secret writing
US Air Force radio operative, Herbert Boeckenhaupt, started spying for the Russians as a young man.
Between 1962 and 1966 he provided the KGB be US military secrets in exchange for money.
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Poll
Posted July 29th, 2011
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Book Reviews
A Century of Spies: Intelligence in the Twentieth Century
Reviewed by: Todd Miller | Posted July 27th, 2011
Here is the ultimate inside history of 20th century intelligence gathering and covert activity. Unrivaled in its scope and as readable as any spy novel, A Century of Spies travels from tsarist Russia and the earliest days of the British Secret Service to the crises and uncertainties of today’s post-Cold War world, offering an unsurpassed overview of the role of modern intelligence in every part of the globe. From spies and secret agents to the latest high-tech wizardry in signals and imagery surveillance, it provides fascinating, in-depth coverage of important operations of United States, British, Russian, Israeli, Chinese, German, and French intelligence services, and much more. Read more »
Spy Bios
Robert Hanssen
One of the most notorious and prolific spies to work against the US was Robert Hanssen, who communicated US intelligence to the Soviets for 22 years from 1979.
He was born in Chicago to parentage of Danish-Polish and German descent. Hanssen’s father was emotionally abusive towards his son, which Hanssen interpreted later as efforts to ‘toughen him up’. Read more »
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Churchill Museum & Cabinet War Rooms
The Churchill Museum is housed within the Cabinet War Rooms, a historic underground complex that housed a British government command center throughout World War II, and explores the life of British statesman Winston Churchill. Read more »