We claimed (see below) that we could name at least a dozen women who were far more deserving of the term “spy” than Margarethe Zelle, women who really have been forgotten and deserve to have their stories told. This led to some discussion in the office, so here are a …
According to the BBC News website, a musician named Frank Turner has released an album dedicated to: “… female spies, nuns and musicians that time has forgotten.” The “forgotten” female spy turns out to be Mata Hari. As for Turner, the article says: “I don’t see anyone else telling these …
Professor John Fraser (1882 – 18/5/1945) Those who know anything about the annals of British code breaking during the First World War will be familiar with the efforts of the cryptanalysts of the Royal Navy’s Intelligence Division. They were based in various rooms of the Old Admiralty Building in Whitehall, …
Throughout history, there has always been a fear of poison as a likely method of assassination. The post of royal food taster has never been a popular one. But hard evidence of the use of poison, particularly by the intelligence services and their predecessors, is actually quite hard to find. …
The High Court in the UK has ruled that it is lawful to employ children as spies. The UK government was being sued by the charity Just for Kids over the use of children to gather intelligence by police and other bodies. They are known as “Juvenile Covert Human Intelligence …