Reading and Writing

Can't find a decent espionage thriller these days? Don't blame it on Perestroika. Blame it on not reading SpyWriter Jack King : ...

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Germany is rocked by a Nazi scandal. How is it possible that a Nazi organization could exist in current-day Germany? The answer dates back t...

Juan Pujol "Garcia, code-named "Garbo" by his MI5 handlers because he was "the world’s best actor," was the man who...

"Historians still argue why [ Kim] Philby, a British aristocrat and a graduate of the Cambridge University, suddenly chose to work for ...

Peter Lunn, "as a gentleman spy in the early Cold War years, he pioneered the idea of digging tunnels under Soviet-controlled zones to ...

"This week, the commission for the Stasi files will publish a handbook on the HVA, the Stasi branch that handled foreign intelligence a...

"For two weeks in October 1969, the Nixon Administration secretly placed U.S. nuclear forces on alert.  [...] Still today, no conclusiv...

"Recent information has surfaced that both the U.S. and Soviet governments fancied an interest in faking an alien invasion as a means t...

On the occasion of last month's 50th anniversary of construction of the Berlin Wall the press published pieces on the omnipresence of sp...

"Back in the Cold War days, the US propaganda ignited fears of Soviet expansionism and espionage in Latin America to frighten the conti...

While browsing through some old files I found this little ditty by Kieren McCarthy, from May 31, 2001: "What are those words that trigg...

How Marja-Liisa Linkoaho, a Finnish consular employee, was recruitted by CIA to smuggle agents out of East Berlin: “When I was going to work...

"What did East German spies wear to work? Archival photographs uncovered by a Berlin-based artist reveal disguises that included fur ha...

Nr 2: "Live Drops Live Drops are very similar to brush passes and dead drops. In a live drop, two agents make an exchange , but the ex...

Albert "Camus, a philosopher, novelist and journalist, who won the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature, died on January 4, 1960, during a r...

Here's a take on the reasons behind the erection of the Berlin Wall, a Cold War symbol: "during the 1950s, American  cold warriors ...

"Intelligence documents recently unearthed in Prague reveal that in the 1980s Jiri Bartek, then a researcher at London’s Imperial Cance...

"For decades in art circles it was either a rumour or a joke, but now it is confirmed as a fact. The Central Intelligence Agency used A...

"Colonel-General Michael Goleniewski is widely credited as being one of the most important Western agents ever to have operated within ...