The making of a Cold War spy. The life and work of Frank Wisner, one of the CIA’s founding officers, offers us a portrait of American intelligence’s excesses. Sometimes it can be mostly ...

Once, he even took Hayhanen to a storage room to see his photo supplies and ... mentalfloss.com as How a Nickel and a Paperboy Brought Down a Cold War Spy.

Thus. last week, was effected the exchange of a pair of convicted cold war spies: American Francis Gary Powers, 32, the U-2 pilot who crashed in Russia in 1960 and was sentenced to ten years ...

The document was written more than a week after Ethel Rosenberg’s arrest — her husband was arrested a month earlier — presumably to summarize what was known about a Soviet spy ring operating in the ...

A top U.S. government codebreaker who decrypted secret Soviet communications during the Cold War concluded that Ethel ... say proves their mother was not a spy and should lead to her exoneration ...