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By Jaycee Gudoy | Published 11 seconds ago Most people keep a few things private. The figures on this list kept entire second identities, some for a few years and some for most of their adult lives. Their cover stories ranged from…
Major Gus March-Phillipps, an elite British officer and devout Catholic, led some of the most daring covert operations of World War II before dying in combat. Source: British Army, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons On the night of September 12–13, 1942, a…
Helping to fight crime in the 19th century, Allan Pinkerton built a detective agency that took on high-profile cases and even prevented a presidential assassination. In the 1840s, Scottish cooper Allan Pinkerton arrived in Illinois, seeking to create a new life for…
In pre-trial detention, this is how Spielmann described his state of mind at the time: The above story puts the fortunate end of Spielmann’s criminal case back in August 1957 into a new perspective: just a few days after his release,…
But perhaps the most shocking case is that of Reinhard Gehlen, Hitler’s top spy chief on the Eastern Front. Our government did not merely turn a blind eye to his past. It bankrolled an entire intelligence apparatus, headquartered near Munich,…
Home » Defence Today » The Briefing » Author Allan Bartley on the Hong Kong exploits of Canadian WW II spy Mike Kendall A portrait of Francis (Mike) Kendall from his Special Operations Executive personnel file. [gwulo.com] Francis (Mike) Kendall was many…
Immediately following the war, both the United States and the Soviet Union launched clandestine operations to secure German scientists, engineers, and technological assets. The most famous of these in the West was Operation Paperclip, which brought hundreds of German rocket…
Remnants of the former East German border crossing have been discovered during excavations at Berlin's Checkpoint Charlie site, the Berlin Wall Foundation said on Friday. The finds include parts of boundary walls, asphalt surfaces and the foundation of a command…
Cold War spies’ role in Iran’s war on the West. Iran’s position in the ‘axis of evil’ has never been in doubt since the Islamic revolution in 1978 that overthrew Shah Reza Pahlavi, son of the former Persian empire’s founder, Reza…
September 26, 2026 — 5:00am I dare say I’ve learned a lot in my decades of travel but, until now, never how to crack a safe, fool a lie-detector machine, or conceal a recording device in the heel of a shoe. While I doubt these…