The Reporter Who Out-Spied a Spy
The Reporter Who Out-Spied a Spy: Summer 1878: With the end of the two-year Russo-Turkish War, the countries of Europe gathered at the Congress of Berlin to discuss and resolve outstanding issues from...
View ArticleOperation Acoustic Kitty
Operation Acoustic Kitty: At the height of the Cold War, the US Central Intelligence Agency was willing to try just about anything to gain an advantage over the dreaded Communists. The agency...
View ArticleThe Skyhook
The Skyhook: During the Cold War, the US and the Soviets had an ongoing game of tag taking place under the Arctic Ice Cap. Among the better-known technologies employed in this chase, both sides often...
View ArticleThe Woman with a Limp
The Woman with a Limp: In the early 1940s, German secret police agents in Nazi-occupied France were on the lookout for a woman with a wooden leg. She was known only as "the woman with a limp," but the...
View ArticleThe Farewell Dossier
The Farewell Dossier: In 1982, operatives from the USSR's Committee for State Security-- known internationally as the KGB-- celebrated the procurement of a very elusive bit of Western technology. The...
View ArticleProject Alpha and the Spoon Benders
Project Alpha and the Spoon Benders: In the late 1960s, a young Israeli man named Uri Geller gained a substantial amount of attention and fame following a collection of remarkable demonstrations on US...
View ArticleHeavy Water and the Norwegians
Heavy Water and the Norwegians: On 19 November 1942, a pair of Royal Air Force Halifax bombers shouldered their way through thick winter clouds over Norway with troop-carrying assault gliders in tow....
View ArticleSpies on the Roof of the World
Spies on the Roof of the World: In the closing weeks of 1964, the US Central Intelligence Agency was gripped by anxiety in the wake of troubling news. On October 16th, a great mushroom cloud had been...
View ArticleThe Confederacy's Special Agent
The Confederacy's Special Agent: In late 1863, the ongoing War Between the States was not going well for either the Union or the Confederacy. Two years of armed hostility had led to a stalemate, with...
View ArticleThe Spy Who Loved Nothing
The Spy Who Loved Nothing: The meeting had not gone well, the man gloomily reflected as he was driven out of East Berlin. His head was still heavy after a few too many snifters of cognac. The...
View ArticleThe Clockmaker
The Clockmaker: Transcript of audio: It was the middle of a cool September night in Munich, Germany. The year was 1939. In an otherwise unoccupied auditorium, a man knelt on hands and knees chiseling a...
View Article89, 263, 201, 500, 337, 480
89, 263, 201, 500, 337, 480: In 1885, an author named James B. Ward published a pamphlet telling of a long-lost treasure available to anyone clever enough to solve the puzzle associated with it. Ward...
View ArticleThe Skyhook
The Skyhook: During the Cold War, the US and the Soviets had an ongoing game of tag taking place under the Arctic Ice Cap. Among the better-known technologies employed in this chase, both sides often...
View ArticleThe Woman with a Limp
The Woman with a Limp: In the early 1940s, German secret police agents in Nazi-occupied France were on the lookout for a woman with a wooden leg. She was known only as “the woman with a limp,” but the...
View ArticleThe Farewell Dossier
The Farewell Dossier: In 1982, operatives from the USSR’s Committee for State Security– known internationally as the KGB– celebrated the procurement of a very elusive bit of Western technology. The...
View ArticleProject Alpha and the Spoon Benders
Project Alpha and the Spoon Benders: In the late 1960s, a young Israeli man named Uri Geller gained a substantial amount of attention and fame following a collection of remarkable demonstrations on US...
View ArticleHeavy Water and the Norwegians
Heavy Water and the Norwegians: On 19 November 1942, a pair of Royal Air Force Halifax bombers shouldered their way through thick winter clouds over Norway with troop-carrying assault gliders in tow....
View ArticleSpies on the Roof of the World
Spies on the Roof of the World: In the closing weeks of 1964, the US Central Intelligence Agency was gripped by anxiety in the wake of troubling news. On October 16th, a great mushroom cloud had been...
View ArticleThe Confederacy’s Special Agent
The Confederacy’s Special Agent: In late 1863, the ongoing War Between the States was not going well for either the Union or the Confederacy. Two years of armed hostility had led to a stalemate, with...
View ArticleThe Spy Who Loved Nothing
The Spy Who Loved Nothing: The meeting had not gone well, the man gloomily reflected as he was driven out of East Berlin. His head was still heavy after a few too many snifters of cognac. The...
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