January 31st 2004
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American citizen Katrina Leung (code name "Parlor Maid") was born in China but moved to New York (via Hong Kong) when she was 15. She was first recruited by the FBI in the late 70s and became one their top counterintelligence assets.
In 2003 Katrina was charged with being a double ...
December 30th 2003
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Ian Fleming Publications have opened a website promoting Fleming's books.
December 27th 2003
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Central Intelligence Agency: online museum. "Unique collection" illustrating the history of US intelligence.
December 27th 2003
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Lady X: ""Lady X" is a cooperative indie film project that we hope will be a lot of fun and will allow participating filmmakers to show their talent. The general theme is a spy/underworld thriller consisting of episodes made independently by selected filmmakers around the globe. Each episode is ...
December 7th 2003
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The Observer reviews Absolute Friends by John le Carré : More Greene than Maugham, and bursting with a satirical indignation that is sometimes grimly comic, le Carré brings the thriller face to face with contemporary politics and, in the process, has once again demonstrated his mastery of his chosen genre ...
August 7th 2003
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"I wrote my first three books while I was a spook; I wrote the next thirteen after I was at large." (Random House, le Carre Breaks his Silence)
The bleakness of John le Carré's work attracted me at a young age. I glorified it as much as I loved the fantasy ...
August 7th 2003
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FBI Special Agent Robert P. Hanssen single-handedly created the greatest breach of security in the history of the United States. He says he wanted 'to get a litttle money', but a friend a fellow FBI agent claims what he really wanted was 'to play the spy game better than anybody's ...
August 6th 2003
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Shlomo Rosenblum (born in Odessa in 1874) was recruited by MI6 before World War I and at one time considered Britain's most important secret agent.
He changed his name to Sidney Reilly because "In Europe, only the British hate the Irish, but everyone hates the Jews."
Sidney Reilly was a talented actor ...
August 6th 2003
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Mata Hari ("the eye of the day" in Bahasa Indonesia) was born Margaretha Zelle in the province of Friesland, The Netherlands. There was nothing *really* exotic about her - except that she was blackhaired and dark eyed, unique among a nation of blonde giants. She was to become one of ...
August 5th 2003
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A dead-letter box or dead drop is "a physical location where communications, documents, or equipment is covertly placed for another person to collect with out direct contact between the parties." (from Spy Abbreviations, Acronyms and Terminology)
How to use a dead-letter box. (from Google cache)
