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Spying Spying
608. Spying Birch, Harvey a double spy, secretly in the employ of George Washington. [Am. Lit.: Cooper The Spy ] Bond, James Agent 007: super spy, super hero. [Br. Lit.: Herman, 27] C.I.A. (Central Intelligence Agency) U.S. intelligence agency. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 492] Cheka early Soviet... Read more
Spa Fields riot Spa Fields riot
Spa Fields riot, 1816. One of a number of popular incidents provoked by hunger and revolutionary feeling in the wake of the French wars. A great meeting in north London on 15 November addressed by Henry ‘Orator’ Hunt turned into a drunken quasi-insurrection when a part of the crowd... Read more
Benjamin Tallmadge Benjamin Tallmadge
Tallmadge, Benjamin (1754–1835) spy and U.S. representative. A New Yorker, Tallmadge moved to Connecticut and was a lieutenant in the Connecticut militia at the start of the Revolutionary War. Transferring to an elite regiment, the Second Dragoons, he was promoted to major and fought at... Read more
Pauline Cushman Pauline Cushman
Pauline Cushman 1835-93, Union spy in the Civil War, b. New Orleans. She became an actress at 18 in New York City. In 1863 she was banished to Confederate lines as a supposed Southern sympathizer, when in reality she had already performed valuable services for Union intelligence in Louisville and... Read more
Michael (Bible) Michael (Bible)
Michael in the Bible. 1 Father of Sethur the spy. 2 Chief of Issachar. 3 One of David's captains at Ziklag. 4 Jehoshaphat's murdered son.... Read more
spies spies
spies. In 1939–45signals intelligence warfare was of far greater importance than it had ever been before and overshadowed human intelligence, the work of spies. Nevertheless, there were subjects that signals intelligence (sigint) could not cover, and that human intelligence (humint) could.... Read more
SMERSH SMERSH
SMERSH was the Main Counter-Intelligence Directorate of the USSR's People's Commissariat of Defence (GUKR). Founded on 14 April 1943, it was given the name SMERSH, an acronym for Smert Shpionam (Death to Spies) by Stalin himself who rejected the original proposed title, Death to German Spies, on... Read more
Caleb Caleb
Caleb , in the Bible, principal spy sent into Canaan, noted for his faithfulness to God. The name is mentioned elsewhere, apparently in connection with a clan inhabiting S ancient Palestine. An alternate form is Chelubai.... Read more
Max Ernst Max Ernst
Max Ernst 1891-1976, German painter. After World War I, Ernst joined the Dada movement in Paris and then became a founder of surrealism . Apart from the medium of collage , for which he is well known, Ernst developed other devices to express his fantastic vision. In frottage he rubbed black... Read more
Klaus Fuchs Klaus Fuchs
Klaus Fuchs The German-born physicist Klaus Fuchs (1911-1988) was one of the Soviet Union's most effective spies operating in Britain and the United States in the critical period during and after World War II. Fuchs revealed the American designs for the atomic bomb to a Soviet spy shortly after... Read more

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