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Sunday, November 22, 2009
 

Now at the center of an urgent debate, intelligence gathering has won wars and influenced culture. Here are tales of professionals, playboys, seductresses, and celebrities, as well as traitors, who practiced the trade.

The power of secrets:
The earliest civilizations used spies.
Be very afraid: Elizabethan England:
Spymaster Walsingham held sway.
Cardinal knowledge:
A network of spies helped Richelieu unify France.
Washington's web:
How the general outspied the British.
Civil War sleuths:
Southern belles and ex-slaves stole secrets.
Spying's glory years:
Using deceit to win, or prevent, wars.
       Richard Sorge
       Virginia Hall
The third man:
Philby wreaked havoc far and wide.
The coldest place in the Cold War:
Divided Berlin was a playground for spies.
Enemies in the mind's eye:
The CIA funded psychic experiments.
Those who were traitors:
       John Anthony Walker
       Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames
       The Rosenbergs
In wartime, some surprising characters answered the call of espionage.
       Ernest Hemingway
       Mata Hari
       Josephine Baker
       Moe Berg
       Julia Child
       Graham Greene
Tools of the trade:
Garbled messages.

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The ferrets and the moles: Decade-long hunt for spies led FBI to target dozens of its own. (9/10/01)



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