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The world's most bizarre secret weapons: How pigeons, cats, whales and even robotic catfish have acted as spies through the ages
A notable example of this was the clandestine extraction of Oleg Gordievsky in 1985 after the cover of one of the west's most valuable double-agents working for British intelligence was blown. The ...
The Cipher Brief3d
A Cold War Spy Dossier Revealed – With Lessons for Today
A closer look at recently declassified MI5 files on the intelligence failure surrounding the five "Cambrdige spies" ...
NDTV27d
Hidden In Plain Sight: The World's Most Bizarre Secret Weapons
A notable example of this was the clandestine extraction of Oleg Gordievsky in 1985 after the cover of one of the west's most valuable double-agents working for British intelligence was blown.
Japan Today25d
How pigeons, cats, whales and even robotic catfish have acted as spies through the ages
A notable example of this was the clandestine extraction of Oleg Gordievsky in 1985 after the cover of one of the west’s most valuable double-agents working for British intelligence was blown. The ...
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Aaron Lea and Borukh Taskin: Why Aren't Russia's Elites Fleeing Putin?
diplomats and intelligence officers Oleg Gordievsky, Stanislav Levchenko, Yuri Bezmenov, scientists Mikhail Voslensky, Stanislav Kurilov - but hundreds of others also escaped. A rich cross-section ...
The Indian Express28d
World’s most bizarre secret weapons: how pigeons, cats, whales, robotic catfish acted as spies through ages
A notable example of this was the clandestine extraction of Oleg Gordievsky in 1985 after the cover of one of the west’s most valuable double-agents working for British intelligence was blown. The ...
literaryreview1d
Dead Drop: The True Story of Oleg Penkovsky and the Cold War’s Most Dangerous Operation
Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky, regarded by many as one of the most beneficent agents in the history of espionage, was tried and sentenced to death in Moscow in 1963. Having only by a near miracle ...
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Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979–89
This well-organised and well-written history of the last Soviet foreign war is extremely useful and timely. Within the USSR, a totalitarian state, there was practically no trustworthy information ...