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SOE
website Britain’s Special Operations Executive, an agency set up by Winston Churchill, carried out operations in Albania to support anti-German partisans. In 2008 Roderick Bailey authored ”The Wildest Province: SOE in the Land of the Eagle.” -
Winston Churchill and the SOE
Website Britain’s PM Winston Churchill sent a handful of young British officers to Washington, DC, to ingratiate themselves on the social scene and advance the British cause through good manners. They included Roald Dahl, Ian Fleming and David Ogilvy. In 2008 Jennet Conant authored “The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington. -
Ernest Hemingway
website Ernest Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize for his writing, but before that he served in World War I and as a spy for the United States during World War II. He attempted to spy on potential Nazi sympathizers in Cuba during World War II, but apparently wasn't very good. -
Richard Sorge
website Richard Sorge was one of the best Soviet spies in Japan. In October, 1914, he volunteered to serve in World War I. During his service he was severely injured losing three fingers and breaking both legs. After being fired from teaching and mining, he went to the Soviet Union where he became a spy under the cover of being a journalist. He was arrested in Tokyo and, after dnying all ties to the Soviets, was hanged. -
Klaus Fuchs
VideoFuchs was a German-born theoretical physicist who worked in Los Alamos on the atom bomb project. He was responsible for many significant theoretical calculations relating to the first fission weapons and early models of the hydrogen bomb. Whilst attending university in Germany, Fuchs became involved with the Communist Party of Germany. After a run-in with the newly installed Nazi government, he fled to England where he earned his PhD in physics. For a short time he worked on the British atomic b -
Nancy Grace Augusta Wake
Video</a></a>http://goo.gl/pH4Qr ancy Wake grew up in Australia. She worked as a nurse then a journalist. When she was a journalist she watched the rise of Hitler and recognized the threat Germany presented. While living in France with her husband she became a courier for the French Resistance. She was the Gestapo's most wanted spy and they tortured and killed her husband to attempt to find her. In 1944 she parachuted back to France to assist in the resistance. -
COCO CHANEL
website A Germany general sent French fashion designer Coco Chanel to Madrid to initiate talks through the British Embassy in a plan code-named “Operation Modelhut.” A travel companion denounced her as an enemy agent and the British ignored her. -
Tarantella
Website Russia’s Operation Tarantella, designed to reach emigres who fled after the Communist takeover, turned Viktor Bogomolets back to Moscow. He became a double agent passing British secrets to top-tier Soviet operatives. This was made public in 2007. -
The Echelon
website Echelon began with a secret international agreement between the US, Britain, and Canada to collate electronic intelligence. Australia and New Zealand signing up later. By 2005 it consisted of a global network of computers that automatically searched through millions of intercepted for pre-programmed keywords or fax, telex and e-mail addresses. -
The Cambridge Five
http://goo.gl/3Zj4J The Cambridge Five was a group of Soviet spies who passed information to the Soviet Union in the early 1950s and during World War II. It has also been said that they passed disinformation, or false information, about the Soviet Union to the Nazis. There are only 4 known names of the five members of this group. -
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg execution
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were Jewish parents of two young boys. They were executed because of their crime of conspiracy to commit espionage. Julius and Ethel's brother, David Greenglass, gave the Russians top secret information as well as details about the Manhattan Project. Greenglass was arrested in 1950. Julius and Ethel's conviction was mainly advocated by Greenglass's accusation of their involvement.</a>
