History

A drunken Churchill blurted out the Sicily plan, so British intelligence faked a drowned officer carrying secret papers...

Harold Cole betrayed the French Resistance to the Gestapo, then played Nazis, Britons and Soviets against one another. E...

Duško Popov, the Serbian playboy who inspired James Bond, fed the Nazis fake secrets and helped bait Japan into striking...

A freelance spy named Garbo fooled the Nazis with a network of 27 agents who never existed, while his team prepared the...

Buried under Gestapo suspicion and a dead dog, the Allied spy ring survives to sell Hitler a wooden army at Calais, and...

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...