‘The Invisible Spy’ Review: Manhattan Project
A clandestine operation—tucked away on an upper floor of Rockefeller Center—was vital to Britain’s struggle for survival in ...
7 Historical Figures You Probably Didn’t Know Were Spies
What do Julia Child, Paul Revere, and Harriet Tubman all have in common? Each played a crucial role in the clandestine world ...
When WWII’s ‘Invisible Spy’ visited Chicago’s Art Institute with James Bond creator Ian Fleming
This excerpt from the new book by former Sun-Times reporter and “Masters of Sex” author Thomas Maier details the Bond ...
How a Broadway Musical Revealed a Family’s World War II Spy Secrets
Descendants of characters in “Operation Mincemeat,” a hit British musical now in New York, have gotten more out of seeing it ...
The Economist13d
Why British spooks are reaching out to the private sector
Another challenge, co-sponsored with the British Antarctic Survey, a research institute, sought batteries that could operate at -40°C. Left unspoken was that the same technology was needed to power ...
KGB double agent Oleg Gordievsky dead - defector was one of Britain's most valuable spies
Oleg Gordievsky was regarded as one of Britain's most valuable spies, providing vital information to the British Secret ...
Town & Country10d
How a Secret British Spy Mission Became a Broadway Hit
But it would be up to SpitLip to do some public education—for all it had been written about, the mission still wasn’t exactly in the British zeitgeist. “There are so many amazing spy stories ...
AOL10d
How a Secret British Spy Mission Became a Broadway Hit
It all began with a podcast episode. Well, it really began with a top-secret World War II British spy mission, but as far as musical comedy troupe SpitLip was concerned, the development of ...