Weekly "cloak and swagger" — the complete file.
THE MOST HUNTED ALLIED AGENT IN OCCUPIED FRANCE WAS AN AMERICAN WOMAN WITH A WOODEN LEG NAMED CUTHBERT.Some files you grade. Some files you salute. This week's does both, because the woman in it ran spy networks the G...
Read the issue →THE CIA DUG A QUARTER-MILE TUNNEL INTO SOVIET BERLIN. THE KGB KNEW BEFORE THE FIRST SHOVEL HIT DIRT. BOTH SIDES GOT WHAT THEY WANTED.Espionage stories usually have a winner. This week's file has two, which is somehow ...
Read the issue →IN 1943 THE BRITISH WON A BATTLE WITH A DEAD MAN, A FAKE FIANCÉE, AND AN OVERDRAFT NOTICE.The problem with deceiving an intelligence service is that intelligence services are professionally suspicious of good news. Th...
Read the issue →THE KGB'S TECHNOLOGY-THEFT PROGRAM WAS BETRAYED BY THE MAN WHO GRADED ITS HOMEWORK.Every heist crew has a fence, and every good fence keeps a ledger. By 1981 the Soviet Union was running the largest technology-heist o...
Read the issue →THE MOST IMPORTANT SPY OF THE COLD WAR ESCAPED THE SOVIET UNION IN THE TRUNK OF A FORD.Not a modified Aston Martin. Not a submarine. A Ford Sierra — per Ben Macintyre's participant-interview account — purchased at ret...
Read the issue →SIXTY-FIVE YEARS AGO THIS MORNING, BERLIN WOKE UP TO BARBED WIRE. Plus: the CIA steals a submarine with a giant claw, the fall spy TV slate, and a wooden eagle that betrayed its country for seven years without using a...
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