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Forrest "Tommy" Yeo-Thomas, one of the real men behind James Bond, dined with the Gestapo in disguise, survived Buchenwa...

The story of Sidney Reilly, the "Ace of Spies" who spied for and against four great powers, spoke seven languages, held...

Sydney Reilly, the James Bond of his era, seduces his way through the Ottoman and German high command, is sent to kill L...

Eli Cohen, the spy who almost became president of Syria: recruited by the Mossad in Egypt, he built a double life in Dam...

In 1946 codebreaker Meredith Gardner decrypts a Soviet message containing 24 names of Manhattan Project physicists, and...

Suspicion shifts from Klaus Fuchs to Hans Bethe, while a Soviet telegram promising agent "Rest" $500 sends American inte...

William Skardon interrogates Klaus Fuchs and nearly clears him, until a slip over a complicated address exposes an eidet...

Greenglass, Hall and Morris Cohen fall as the Manhattan Project spy ring unravels, and one code name emerges that the Am...

As the spies of the secret Manhattan Project fell one by one, the Americans froze at a single name: George Koval, a Sovi...

On 15 April 1961 came the Bay of Pigs invasion — and with it the rise of Soviet colonel Oleg Penkovsky, the spy whose in...

Oleg Penkovsky's warnings about Soviet missiles in Cuba triggered the Cuban Missile Crisis, and Jack Dunlap's betrayal e...

British intelligence cracks an old Soviet cipher in 1950 and hunts four Cambridge men codenamed Homer, Hicks, Johnson an...