The following article is from Uncle John’s F...  ...y of the whole—mostly secret—business. SPY STORYIn January 1790, President George Washington...  ...ull-time scouts (both military and civilian), ran spy rings, intercepted mail and other communications,...  ...ence operations of foreign gover...

Margaretha Zelle was a Dutch woman who became the...  ...ent to $61,000 in today’s currency—to spy for Germany. She accepted the funds, which she vi...  ...cept the job.So Mata Hari was paid to be a German spy , but never spied for them. Later, she was recruit...  ...never spied for them. Later, she...

We all make mistakes. I make mistakes in my work every day, as many of you know. Some jobs demand more precisions than others, and some have expensive or dangerous risks. If you are working with space ships or military c...

Embed from Getty Images In 1954, Soviet KGB agen...  ...ts. Khokhlov was glad to share the Soviet Union's spy secrets with America, including the loaded cigare...

You don't need to be a spy to enjoy some secret hiding spots. Some people li...

How a chicken farmer, a pair of princesses, and 27...  ...Spaniard. He was the king of con men, an amateur spy gone pro, the world’s sneakiest liar. He w...  ...n working at a hotel when he decided to become a spy . Although he was born to a wealthy Barcelona fam...  ...British embassy and vaguely aske...

[http://youtu.be/NPum07dH_mw] (YouTube link)In thi...  ...also known as TomSka (previously at Neatorama), a spy is sent to infiltrate a poker game. However, the...

(Painting of King William IV by Sir Martin Arthur...  ...mund Affleck. Colonel Matthias Ogden, an American spy , watched and listened carefully for a few months....

For some of these big-name personalities, spying taught them the skills that made them famous; fo...  ...American newspapers.2. Ian Fleming: The Armchair SpyBy trade, author Ian Fleming was a journalist with a...  ...mystery, by plundering his own experiences as a spy .During W...

Photo: Die Kunstagentin/Facebook -...  ...Nerdcore Madrid-based Spanish street artist SpY went to Cologne, Germany, and decided to help the...  ...W? Photo via Ekosystem Actually SpY has done something like this before, wrapping a p...