"Spies" Topic
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 ochoin  | 25 Jul 2015 4:19 p.m. PST |
Espionage & military matters clearly go hand in hand. Therefore some interest in the often sordid world of spying could be seen as natural in this site. I wonder who you would nominate as being amongst the most famous spies in history? There are a lot to choose from: Mata Hari, Richard Sorge (whose information gave the USSR the opportunity to send its Siberian forces to stop Hitler), John Andre, Casanova et al. My nomination would be Mansfield Cummings who founded what became MI6. A wonderful eccentric, he would stab his wooden leg during interviews with spying candidates to gauge their reactions. His WW1 organisation pioneered or developed many of the SOPs of the world of spying. |
 etotheipi  | 25 Jul 2015 4:32 p.m. PST |
If you know enough about their accomplishments to nominate them, how good could they be? |
| Great War Ace | 25 Jul 2015 6:15 p.m. PST |
They retired and wrote about themselves? Or had ghost writers do it…. |
| TNE2300 | 25 Jul 2015 6:17 p.m. PST |
George Washington – Agent 711 – Spymaster link |
| skippy0001 | 25 Jul 2015 7:42 p.m. PST |
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| John the OFM | 25 Jul 2015 7:52 p.m. PST |
If they are famous, they were not doing their job right.  Kim Philby is an odd combination of repulsive and fascinating. |
| Dn Jackson | 25 Jul 2015 10:02 p.m. PST |
Baden-Powell. Founder of the Boy Scouts. Going from memory but in the run up to WWI he posed as a naturalist and hiked along the Adriatic coast making sketches of Austro-Hungarian defenses. He hid the sketches in the markings of butterflies and when his sketches were looked at by the local security forces they didn't notice what he'd drawn. |
| ochoin | 26 Jul 2015 1:48 a.m. PST |
Reilly, Ace of Spies, only became famous after his death. |
| The Tin Dictator | 26 Jul 2015 9:12 a.m. PST |
Agent #86 – Maxwell Smart |
| Cerdic | 26 Jul 2015 11:41 a.m. PST |
Reilly was amazing! Nobody quite knows what happened to him, though….. |
| Mallen | 27 Jul 2015 8:31 a.m. PST |
Great bio of Reilly: link |
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