Il Mitte BerlinoMisteri, segreti, intrighi: un mondo da romanzo, che esiste davvero e che si può esplorare al Museo delle Spie di Berlino!
HGIm #SpyMuseum in #WashingtonDC #USA gibt es Dinge zu sehen, von deren Existenz man eigentlich gar nichts wissen wollte. #washpics
Proktologisch sicher interessant für @frumble :-)
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kurtshSure, you know George Washington was the United States' 1st President, but did you know he was our 1st American SpyMaster as well?
Orchestrating the intelligence operations against the British was an important role & he used a number of spy techniques including writing secret messages written in invisible ink with a unique formula of Gallic Acid & Ferrous Sulfate.
(Also from the International Spy Museum in Washington DC)
#Spymuseum #washingtondc #georgewashington
Fun fact: To mess with German scouts spying from the air during WWII, Allied forces used fake tanks (like the INFLATABLE one pictured) & fake wooden plane structures to mislead the enemy about the strength of their forces.
They were very effective. 😜
(Courtesy of the International Spy Museum in Washington DC)
These days, it's both Russia & China. The Chinese government attempts to steal US technology... everything from drought-resistant corn to the the secret formula for making Oreo cookie's 'stuff' white.
(The FBI caught the Chinese "Oreo" spy & he's serving 15yrs. Photos courtesy of the "International Spy Museum", Washington DC)
"Moscow’s Spies Were Stealing US Tech — Until the FBI Started a Sabotage Campaign" - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/08/04/us-spies-soviet-technology-00164126
BTW The International Spy Museum is the 1st museum in a long while where I wanted to go back IMMEDIATELY for a second pass at everything. It's total nerdvana.
(I already bought tickets. You have to reserve time slots during the day.)
Even the Spy Museum gift shop was awesome. Spy centric t-shirts, hats, gloves, gadgets, books, "Spy x Family" anime gear... and they even have our company President's book for sale!
The "International Spy Museum's" section on traitors show revealing dossiers of the Cambridge 5, British turn coats that supported the Soviets by sending them secrets of the CIA or MI6 in the name of Communism advocacy.
Some were caught but not prosecuted. Others escaped to Moscow when suspected but died in Russia largely from alcoholism & loneliness.
The British's mole, Kim Philby, was part of a group called the Cambridge 5, a set of Soviet recruited spies who graduated from Cambridge.
As seen at the "International Spy Museum", here's the dossier on Kim Philby as well as transcripts of his speeches about how he recruited the others from Cambridge to be Soviet spies.
The next post will share the other members of the Soviet-recruited Cambridge 5.
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The US wasn't the only ones with deeply embedded traitors. British Intelligence had Kim Philby, a Soviet spy embedded as an agent responsible for 'countering Soviet espionage'. This is his exhibit at the 'International Spy Museum'.
In charge of the anti-Soviet bureau, Philby worked with both the US's CIA & British's MI6 & was privy to most of their operations & gave them to the Soviets.
A 'committed Communist', he got 100s killed by Soviets by revealing US/British ops.
