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It's been a little more than two months since I started Espionage&. I thought I'd collate each of these stories into a single thread. Happy reading. https://espionage.substack.com/
'The Billion Dollar Spy' or "the man who ruined the Soviet warplane industry in less than a decade" looked at Adolf Tolkachev, Chief Designer at Phazotron Design Bureau. https://espionage.substack.com/p/the-billion-dollar-spy
'Humanitarian Spies' a series of 3 posts, chronicled Mossad's operation to rescue thousands of Ethiopian Jews from Sudan via the Red Sea Diving Resort. https://espionage.substack.com/p/humanitarian-spies-part-one
'The Double Defector' looked at Col Vitaly Yurchenko, who defected to the US for 4 months, then defected back to Soviet Russia. https://espionage.substack.com/p/the-double-defector
Rudolf Abel spent a decade in America as a Soviet spy. After his arrest, he spent 5 years in prison before being exchanged for Gary Powers. All this while, nobody even knew his real name. https://espionage.substack.com/p/nobody-really-knew-rudolf-abel
Capt Francis Gary Powers flew U-2 reconnaissance aircraft across the Soviet Union. This story covers his final U-2 flight. https://espionage.substack.com/p/70500-feet
Even before Capt Powers had been shot down, the CIA and Lockheed were working on developing a reconnaissance plane that flew higher and faster than the U-2. It was called the A-12 or Oxcart. https://espionage.substack.com/p/the-oxcart
The Soviets had their own supersonic aircraft competing with the Oxcart and the Blackbird: The Foxbat and the Foxhound https://espionage.substack.com/p/blackbird-foxbat-and-foxhound
With Hitler dead and Japan defeated, allied leaders looked forward to working out a durable peace with Soviet Russia. A defector in Canada put paid to that and sparked the Cold War. https://espionage.substack.com/p/how-the-cold-war-began
China's espionage activities against the US have a long and illustrious history. This story looks at one of China's most durable agents in the CIA. https://espionage.substack.com/p/peoples-republic-of-big-data-circa
The year 2004 saw a senior R&AW officer 'disappear'. We looked at Rabinder Singh's espionage and escape in this story. https://espionage.substack.com/p/rabinder-singh-double-agent
Nazi Germany paid Juan Pujol García the equivalent of £1 million and awarded him the Iron Cross for spying on Britain. A few months later, Britain awarded him an MBE, also for spying on Britain. https://espionage.substack.com/p/codename-garbo
A Soviet cruiser, a mole in MI6, an early morning dive into freezing water at Portsmouth Naval Base, a clumsy coverup, and the headless body of the diver. https://espionage.substack.com/p/the-headless-frogman
High-tech face masks, low-tech tradecraft, and a husband and wife spy team pitted against KGB counterintelligence in the heart of the Soviet Union. https://espionage.substack.com/p/mission-impossible-in-1970s-moscow
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