Help me find this essay about a spy... [more inside]
posted by overglow on Jul 10, 2009 - 3 answers

Wrecking havoc/ fiction: How much spying could someone who works for a server farm engage in? [more inside]
posted by From Bklyn on Jun 18, 2009 - 11 answers

When I was a child there used to be cryptic messages on BBC Radio Four between the news and weather etc. that were weird and cryptic (as in they shouldn't have been on mainstream radio), but dull - stuff like "Mrs. Smith from Doncaster needs to contact her family in Hull". I have been told they were used for spies to communicate - does anyone know any more about this? I think it's something like those code words on the Tube that get announced if there's something going on. And numbers stations of course!
posted by debord on Jun 4, 2009 - 7 answers

Help me find an old spy novel (details inside) ... [more inside]
posted by thermonuclear.jive.turkey on May 4, 2009 - 2 answers

I want to read more about financial crimes, real and fictitious. Any recommendations? [more inside]
posted by reenum on Nov 25, 2008 - 12 answers

What should I read to learn about espionage and World War II/start of the Cold War? [more inside]
posted by BT on Feb 27, 2008 - 25 answers

After watching BBC Horizon last night (a copy of the Prof. Hebb sensory depreivation experiments of the 60’s) a past thought came back to me. I am fascinated by double (and in the case of Agent Zigzag triple) agents – Philby, Burgess, Ames, Gordievsky…the list goes on and on. I recall reading George Blakes book ‘no other choice’ and remember being profoundly struck by the both psychological and physical torture he received for a period of three years during his captivity in Korea [more inside]
posted by numberstation on Jan 23, 2008 - 1 answer

I'm researching Berne, Switzerland, from approximately 1900 (although I could go as far back as 1880-90) to the First World War. I know that because of Switzerland's neutrality, a lot of international politics, diplomacy, activism and espionage was happening there. I have a few good general sources about Switzerland in about that era; a travel guide first published in 1919 by Frank Fox, John Addington Symonds' "Our Life in the Swiss Highlands," and I've just started tracking down information about the socialist International and the Berne International Women's Conference that took place in 1915. But I need to learn a lot more -- [more inside]
posted by ryansara on Jan 20, 2008 - 3 answers

Give me the Cold War chills, please. I'm going on vacation soon and I would like to settle down on the beach with a really juicy espionage novel, preferably something about the Cold War, something suitably dense, complex, panoramic and violent. What should I read? [more inside]
posted by gentle on Aug 9, 2007 - 37 answers

How many US citizens (including, but not limited to, employees of US espionage) lost their lives, careers or had family members hurt or killed as a direct or indirect result of Valerie Plame's cover status being blown? [more inside]
posted by Mr. Six on Jul 13, 2006 - 11 answers

Clearing up the sound on a low quality avi recorded with a Casio EX-Z57? [more inside]
posted by nthdegx on Apr 28, 2006 - 7 answers

Hosting an adult birthday party centered around the ABC show "Alias" as its theme. I'm looking for a good game or activity that could fit an espionage type theme. [more inside]
posted by MasonDixon on Apr 13, 2006 - 14 answers

What are the 40 full "Moscow Rules"? An abridged version of the Moscow Rules has been posted several times. There were apparently 40 original Moscow Rules, a set of guidelines created by the CIA to benefit them in their operations in Russia. Where can I find the full 40 rules?
posted by arimathea on Jan 5, 2006 - 10 answers

What do real spies tell their familes? [more inside]
posted by donkeymon on Oct 16, 2005 - 32 answers