How a secret Long Island spy team saved George Washington from murder and helped win the Revolution

Welcome to Long Spyland. America won its independence with the help of the Culper Spy Ring, a small band of Long Island ...
Yahoo

The forgotten British spy who infiltrated Hitler’s inner circle

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hitler plans a speech with German military officials - Library of Congress / Getty The von der Ropp family has a certain kind of ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Nathan Hale, the Doomed Patriot Spy, Probably Never Said ‘I Only Regret That I Have but One Life to Lose for My Country’ Before His Execution

The young Connecticut schoolmaster’s intelligence-gathering mission was ill-fated from the start. But after he was hanged by the British in September 1776, his story became the stuff of legend Meilan ...

Forget James Bond, this iconic British spy is making his comeback first

Amazingly, 'Austin Powers 4' has been announced before the next James Bond actor, further highlighting the spy thriller franchise's casting struggles.
The New York Times

Len Deighton, Author of Espionage Best-Sellers, Dies at 97

His Cold War thrillers “The Ipcress File” and “Funeral in Berlin” brought a documentary-style realism to the spy genre. By William Grimes Len Deighton, the British author who brought a ...
Greek Reporter

Father Dimitrios: The Orthodox Monk Who Was a British Spy

The story of Father Dimitrios, a British spy disguised as an Orthodox monk in pre-World War II Greece, is a fascinating ...
The Washington Post

Len Deighton, best-selling novelist with wry take on espionage, dies at 97

Len Deighton, the prolific British spy novelist whose best-selling books of betrayal and deception skewered espionage services in the East and the West, and sharply mocked English social strictures, ...