Agents-Provocateur

                                                   17 JUNE 1942                                         AGENTS-PROVOCATEUR The waters off Ponte Vedra, Florida, were not particularly rough this dark evening of June 17th, 1942, certainly not enough to prevent four men from shuffling onto the deck of a German submarine.  They worked quietly inflating Read More

John Walker Spy Ring (cont.)

                                       DECEMBER 1967-MAY 1985                                    JOHN WALKER SPY RING (cont.) The Soviets were indeed interested in what RMC John Walker had brought!  After waiting in a Soviet embassy anteroom while the authenticity of his KL-47 keylist was verified, an official returned to Walker Read More

John Walker Spy Ring

                                       DECEMBER 1967-MAY 1985                                         JOHN WALKER SPY RING By the late 1960s, US Navy top-secret operations were routinely shadowed by Russian “trawlers” bristling with antennae.  B-52 airstrikes against North Vietnam seemed to be anticipated by the enemy, even when diverted to secondary Read More

Great Seal Bug

                                                   26 MAY 1960                                               GREAT SEAL BUG On 4 August 1945, as WWII ended, a Moscow school children’s group, the Young Pioneers, presented US Ambassador W. Averell Harriman with a gift of friendship–a 2-foot carved wooden likeness of the Great Seal of Read More