espionage

In this thread discussing which country had the best espionage during the Cold War, people brought up the Soviets quite a bit (and the votes for them were nearly half). And looking at some of their feats, it's not hard to see why people think that way. Stalin knew about the A-bomb before Truman...

The Cold War, where the USA and the USSR played the world like a geopolitical chessboard. An Ideological struggle between Communism and Capitalism. Besides total nuclear annihilation, and proxy wars, one of the famous things from the Cold-War was espionage. Various counter-intelligence agencies...

It is known that men like Oster and Canaris, as fierce anti-Nazis, have deliberately sabotaged the German war effort and Intelligence service during WWII. The underperformance of the German intelligence services compared to the British ones can be partially explained by it, in many cases giving...

I just had this idea floating around in my head If I decide to develop this further, any and all updates will be here. -------------- Dirty Dozen: Vietnam Edition Date: Sometime in 1971 Premise: A group of elite soldiers with disciplinary issues is recruited by a CIA operations officer to...

This article is based on the on-line historical news clip shown in the link below: COUP IN BOLIVIA PRESIDENT HELD BY PRO-NAZIS - Examiner (Launceston, Tas. : 1900 - 1954) - 22 Dec 1943 From research I come up with the following facts: -Bolivia was in important source of tin and other...

What if the Romans, during the height of their power, had established a completely centralized secret police that eventually increased in power and took over the state? What might this look like? Historically, the Romans were not unfamiliar with espionage. In the 2nd century, Hadrian...