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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
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
Official Secrets Act Official Secrets Act
Official Secrets Act, 1911. The first Official Secrets Act (1889) was ineffective. It required the government to prove a suspect was a spy, even where it was obvious. The 1911 Act put this right, and extended the law further. It was passed in a panic, during an anti-German spy scare, and on a hot... Read more
Anthony Frederick Blunt Anthony Frederick Blunt
Anthony Frederick Blunt 1907-83, English art historian and Soviet spy, grad. Cambridge. Director of the Courtauld Institute of Art after 1947 and professor of the history of art at the Univ. of London, Blunt also served from 1952 as Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures and was one of the most powerful... Read more
Klaus Emil Fuchs Klaus Emil Fuchs
Klaus Emil Fuchs , 1912-88, British physicist and Communist spy, b. Germany. In 1933 he fled Germany for England, where he completed his education. Interned (1940-41) in Canada as an enemy alien, he made no attempt to conceal his Communist sympathies and was soon released, becoming a naturalized... Read more
John le Carre John le Carre
John le Carré , pseud. of David John Moore Cornwell, b. 1931-, English novelist, b. Poole, Dorset, grad. Oxford, 1956. He was a tutor at Eton College (1956-58), subsequently working for the British Foreign Service in Germany (1961-64). Le Carré's best-known novel is The Spy Who... 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
Marc Connelly Marc Connelly
Marc Connelly (Marcus Cook Connelly) , 1890-1981, American dramatist, b. McKeesport, Pa. He is best known for his Pulitzer Prize winning play The Green Pastures (1930), a fantasy of biblical history presented in terms of the religious life of Southern blacks; it was based on Roark Bradford's... Read more
James Stewart 1st duke of Ross James Stewart 1st duke of Ross
Ross, James Stewart, 1st duke of [S] (c.1477–1504). Second son of James III, he received more favour from his father than the duke of Rothesay, the future James IV. In particular James III proposed him as part of a marriage alliance with England, but not his elder brother (1486); and... Read more

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