The CIA tried to train cat spies. It didn't go well. Here’s the scene: A man wearing a trench coat and a fedora sits on a ...
Gary Oldman appeared in this thriller long before leading Apple TV's Slow Horses, and it shows how well‑suited he already was ...
His Cold War thrillers “The Ipcress File” and “Funeral in Berlin” brought a documentary-style realism to the spy genre.
ISRAELI spies are waging a chilling psychological war on Iran by cold-calling cops working for the regime and warning they’re ...
In 1971, the United States launched a secret satellite program called JUMPSEAT, which surveilled the Soviet Union throughout the Cold War. Before, during, and after the Cold War reconnaissance ...
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Inside the CIA’s Cold War search for psychic spies

Few Cold War research programs looked less like engineering and more like folklore than the U.S. government’s search for psychic spies. Yet the effort was real, funded, documented, and sustained for ...
There are many reasons why old spying methods like number stations are used in an era of encrypted messaging apps, satellites ...
Mr. Deighton wrote some 20 spy novels, including "The Ipcress File," and more than a dozen works of nonfiction as well as screenplays, television scripts, cookbooks, and travel guides.
Len Deighton, who has died aged 97, was acclaimed “the poet of the spy novel”, having almost single-handedly rescued spy ...
Streaming on most video on demand platforms is the new nostalgic comedy "All is Fine in '89". With the backdrop of the Berlin ...
From the upper floors of Vienna’s former imperial riding school, a cluster of satellite dishes can be made out behind the golden domes of the Russian Orthodox cathedral. All embassies need to ...
The excitement around ‘Dhurandhar’ just keeps building, with fans counting down the days until ‘Dhurandhar: The Revenge’ hits ...