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BREAKING INTEL: @CBSNews has confirmed that Robert Hanssen, a former @FBI agent and one of the most damaging spies in U.S. history, has died. He was found unresponsive this morning, per the Bureau of Prisons. Hanssen was 79 and had spent the last 22+ years in federal custody.

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This #MemorialDay , we honor and remember those who bravely gave their lives in service of their country. 📷: The CIA Memorial Wall in Langley, Virginia. A single star is carved for each life lost in service; 140 courageous CIA officers, some whose names & contributions must

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67 years ago today, ENIGMA codebreaker #AlanTuring died. He was one of the most original thinkers of the century🌈 Charged with indecency for homosexuality—a crime in 1952—& forced to undergo a humiliating hormone treatment, at age 42 this genius of cryptanalysis took his life.

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The Navajo could send a message in 20 seconds—beating 30 minutes for a coding machine, often under intense conditions. From 1942 to 1945, Navajo #codetalkers participated in every Marine assault in the Pacific, successfully providing a fast, secure and error-free line of comms.

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“There are thousands of African-Americans who are in the U.S. intelligence community. You go through war and loss and racism. And there comes a time that you realize that, hey, I made my contribution. And that's all I did.” @MalcolmNance | US Naval Intelligence Officer. #BHM

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"A day that will live in infamy." 77 years ago today, Japanese warplanes attack Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. More than 2,300 Americans were killed. The @CIA was established in 1947 to prevent another #PearlHarbor

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Josephine Baker worked tirelessly for the French liberation during WWII. No one suspected her sheet music was covered with messages written in invisible ink or that her dress contained hidden photographs. See this 1933 souvenir including her signature on display @IntlSpyMuseum .

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Meet the Letter That Won the American Revolution 🇺🇸 In 1777, George Washington wrote this letter hiring Nathanial Sackett as the nation’s first spy. The letter served as the launching point for the Culper Spy Ring that would in large part save the American Revolution. See the

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Here's to strong women. May we know them. May we be them. May we raise them. #WomensMarch #WomenWhoHaveInspiredMe

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Tony Mendez helped to create the escape plan, false identities & brilliant disguises that let six Americans escape revolutionary Tehran, where they had been held hostage in 1980. That story became Argo, the film which won the Oscar in 2013. via @politico

Tony Mendez: The CIA’s Master of Disguises

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Here’s to inquisitive women everywhere. May we know them. May we be them. May we raise them. Happy #InternationalWomensDay !

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SPYFACT: Singer/dancer Josephine Baker was a WWII #spy , smuggling secrets written in invisible ink on her sheet music. #Timeless

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Happy Birthday Josephine Baker! #OTD in 1906, the legendary entertainer, resistance fighter & WWI spy was born. A truly effective agent, no one suspected that concealed among Baker's music sheets were other notes—in invisible ink—about German troop movements. (PC: Gaston Paris)

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Today in #SpyHistory : The CIA deployed a small team (7 agency officers and four others) into Afghanistan, 2001. Its mission: to launch US operations against al-Qaida and its Taliban supporters. Operation #JAWBREAKER was the US’ first response after the 9/11 attacks.

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Happy Birthday to the late Marlene Dietrich! The singer/actress worked for the OSS’s (today’s CIA) Morale Operations during WWII, recording anti-Nazi albums. For her efforts, Dietrich was awarded the Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honor.

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We mark #WomenInScience Day by celebrating inventor and actress #HedyLamarr - Icon. Immigrant. Inventor. Mother of Wi-Fi. Her most recognized work came from co-inventing with George Antheil, a frequency-hopping wireless signal for guiding U.S. Navy torpedoes to their targets.

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Today in #SpyHistory : Josephine Baker, entertainer, resistance fighter & WWI spy was born, 1906.

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The CIA once implanted microphones in cats to spy on the Soviets. The $20 million Project #AcousticKitty failed when on its first mission, the cat was hit by a taxi. Never forget. #NationalCatDay 🐱 #Caturday

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#SPYArtifact : Shoe heel transmitter, Romanian Secret Service, 1960s. Transmitter, microphone & batteries were imbedded in the heel of the target's shoe - a walking radio station, transmitting all conversations. View more artifacts online:

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"This was happening to our top 5%, 10% performing officers across the Defense Intelligence Agency. And consistently there was a Russia nexus." Havana Syndrome mystery leads to the discovery of a top secret Russian intelligence unit which goes by a number, 29155.

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For the first time, there’s evidence of who might be behind the mysterious neurological symptoms known as Havana Syndrome, which has been reported by many American officials.

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#SPYFACT : In 1946, Soviet school children gave the US ambassador a carved wooden replica of the Great Seal of the United States. The ambassador prominently displayed the seal in his study. In 1952, technicians discovered a small bugging device hidden within the seal. #TrustNoOne

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Today in #SpyHistory : On this day 28 years ago, the Soviet Union officially collapsed.

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This #MemorialDay , we honor and remember those who bravely gave their lives in service of their country. 📷: The CIA Memorial Wall in Langley, Virginia. A single star is carved for each life lost in service; 140 courageous CIA officers, some whose names must remain secret.

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Here’s to inquisitive women everywhere. May we know them. May we be them. May we raise them. Happy #InternationalWomensDay !

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Today is #NavajoCodeTalkersDay ! Meet Chester Nez, a Navajo code talker for the U.S. Marines in WWII. In 1942, Nez was one of 29 code talkers who used their unique language to create the unbreakable code that helped win the war. He was the last original code talker. (1921-2014)

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Happy birthday to, Julia Child! Did you know before she became America's favorite chef, Child was a spy? She worked for the OSS, the nation's WWII spy agency, where she collected and analyzed intel. One of her missions was to cook up a shark repellent to be used by the US Navy🦈

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Today in #SpyHistory : ENIGMA codebreaker #AlanTuring died (1954). He was one of the most original thinkers of the century. 🌈 Charged with indecency for homosexuality—a crime in 1952—& forced to undergo a hormone treatment, at age 42, this genius of cryptanalysis took his life.

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"Well behaved women rarely make history." Happy #WomensHistoryMonth to all femme spies of the espionage world whose achievements, courage and strength outshine James Bond!

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Today in #SpyHistory : On February 18, 2001, former FBI special agent Robert Hanssen, one of the most damaging spies in US history, was arrested and charged with committing espionage on behalf of the intelligence services of the former Soviet Union.

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Today in #SpyHistory : OSS heroine #VirginiaHall landed in France to join the resistance, 1944. Hall wreaked havoc on German soldiers, orchestrating sabotage and guerilla warfare. The Gestapo considered her "the most dangerous of all Allied spies”.

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Happy Birthday Josephine Baker! #OTD in 1906, the legendary entertainer, resistance fighter & WWII spy was born. A truly effective agent, no one suspected that concealed among Baker's music sheets were notes—in invisible ink—on German troop movements.

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#SPYFACT - FBI Special Agent Robert Hanssen’s job in the 1980s was to search for Soviet spies. Instead, he was slipping them classified information, including the names of three KGB intelligence officers secretly working for the US. Two were executed. #20thAnniversary

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Josephine Baker -- Entertainer, Activist & WWII French Resistance agent A truly effective spy, no one suspected that her sheet music was covered with messages written in invisible ink or that her dress contained hidden photographs. 📷: Murray Korman #BHM

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Here's to female spies and inquisitive women everywhere! #InternationalWomensDay

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On February 28, 1942, nine Norwegian saboteurs scaled a cliff in the middle of the night to blow up Vemor, a heavy water plant in Norway. #OperationGunnerside was the greatest act of sabotage in WWII, depriving the Nazis of the atomic bomb. 📷 Vial of Heavy Water @IntlSpyMuseum

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It's #NationalLipstickDay ! Meet the 'Lipstick Pistol', used by KGB femme fatales during the Cold War, a single shot 4.5 mm, c. 1965.

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#SpyFact : Ian Fleming, best known for his James Bond novels, wrote only one children's book —"Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" and it is a beloved classic! #WorldBookDay

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Touché. 😂😄 It seems all roads lead to Bond, James Bond.

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Had to see it for myself. This actually happened at the Pentagon briefing yesterday. It is real. It really happened. Thank you @JSchogol73030

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"Well behaved women rarely make history." Happy #WomensHistoryMonth to all femme spies of the espionage world whose achievements, courage and strength outshine James Bond!

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“Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.” 🏳️‍🌈 Alan Turing, father of the modern computing, mathematical genius, cryptanalyst & WWII codebreaker of the ENIGMA, saving 14 million lives. #PrideMonth #NeverForget | @jecinci

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Tony Mendez, ‘Argo’ spy who smuggled U.S. hostages out of Iran during crisis, dies at 78

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Former FBI operative Eric O'Neill @eoneill worked undercover as Robert Hanssen’s aide. His mission? To expose his boss as a Russian spy. O'Neill acquired Hanssen's PalmPilot which held an encrypted dead drop schedule..."the smoking gun" needed to take down Hanssen. It's on

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#SPYFACT : There has only been one woman to receive the Presidential Medal of Honor. Mary Edwards Walker is that woman. A surgeon, women’s rights advocate, abolitionist, spy & prisoner of war, Walker was the first female U.S. Army surgeon during the Civil War. #WomensHistoryMonth

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Today in #SpyHistory : Albert Einstein wrote a letter to FDR warning him of the possibility of Nazi Germany developing an atomic bomb,1939. The Einstein-Szilárd letter prompted action by Roosevelt and resulted in the #ManhattanProject developing the first atomic bombs.

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“I always give my bird a generous butter massage before I put it in the oven. Why? Because I think the bird likes it – and, more important, I like to give it.” —Julia Child (OSS agent) Happy Thanksgiving from our SPY family to yours! 🦃

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The CIA once implanted microphones in cats to spy on the Soviets. The $20 million Project #AcousticKitty failed when on its first mission, the cat was hit by a taxi. Never forget. #NationalCatDay 🐱

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#SPYArtifact - Communications Eliminator Issued by U.S. Military Intelligence, 1970s. When activated, this device would jam all radio communications around it then self detonate after its cycle was complete.

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"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on." - John F. Kennedy #JFK

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SpyFact: In 1943, before she became a culinary icon, Julia Child helped @CIA create a recipe for shark repellent! #NationalSharkAwarenessDay

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56 years ago today, Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove", the classic Cold War satire film premiered in theaters. #SpyFact : The OSS recruited Sterling Hayden, an expert seaman, to command a fleet of ships that ran guns & supplies in WWII. Hayden went on to star as Gen. Jack D. Ripper...

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The letter that started it all. For a limited time, see the original 246-year-old George Washington letter initiating America's first spy ring. The letter, which is stored 10 months out of the year to preserve its fragile state – is now on display this #PresidentsDay weekend.

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The new Spy Museum is bigger, bolder and more beautiful. Here are the 10 things you shouldn’t miss.

The popular D.C. attraction embraces cool gadgets, but it isn’t afraid to tackle the dark side of the world of espionage.

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Today, we solemnly remember the tragic terror attack that took nearly 3,000 lives at the Pentagon, World Trade Center & Shanksville, PA. Experience @IntlSpyMuseum 's 'Fateful Failures' Exhibit which examines 9/11 through the critical lens of intelligence.

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Happy 94th Birthday to @IntlSpyMuseum founder and visionary, Milton Maltz! A veteran of the U.S. Navy, he served at the National Security Agency (NSA) as a codebreaker during the Korean War, developing a reverence for intelligence & history that led him to create the Spy Museum.

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#CIA Discloses Identity of Second Spy Involved in #Argo Operation. The movie about the daring mission to rescue American diplomats from Tehran portrayed a single officer Tony Mendez sneaking into the Iranian capital. In reality, the agency sent two officers. For the first time,

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55 years ago today, Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", the classic Cold War satire film premiered in theaters. #OTD #SpyHistory

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Breaking Intel - Two U.S. Navy Sailors arrested of spying for China. Both are accused of having passed along national defense information to Chinese intelligence officials in return for cash payments.

2 US Navy sailors arrested for allegedly spying for China

Two U.S. Navy sailors have been arrested on charges related to allegedly spying for China, federal prosecutors announced on Thursday

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”My parents have seen to it that I am harshly punished...my phone and two items have been taken. I have been lectured until my brain turned to jelly.” We appreciate and accept your sincere apology, Agent A.

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"I’ve always loved how the Spy Museum building stands out against the brutalist architecture at L’Enfant Plaza. When I found the water pooling across the street it made for the perfect mirror.” 📷: @bottlerocket98

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Happy #FathersDay from our SPY family to yours! #RealSpiesRealStories

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Today in #SpyHistory : The trial of the men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at #Watergate begins, 1973. The five defendants plead guilty. Liddy and James W. McCord Jr. were convicted after the trial.

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"An optimist is the human personification of spring." ~ Susan Bissonette🌸 Happy first day of Spring from all of us at SPY! #SpyGnome #CherryBlossom

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“Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.” Today in #SpyHistory : Alan Turing, pioneering computer scientist, cryptanalyst and WWII code-breaker of the #ENIGMA was born on this day in 1912.🌈

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The #FBI knew by the 1990s that there was a Soviet “mole.” In 2000, information from a Russian source helped them zero in on Hanssen. After months of investigation, agents arrested #RobertHanssen 10 minutes after he placed a dead drop in Foxstone Park in Virginia. 🗣️Eric O’Neill

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The letter that started it all. For a limited time only, see this original George Washington letter initiating the nation's first spy network on display @IntlSpyMuseum ! #PresidentsDay2018

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Today is #TelltheTruthDay ! On this day, we want to shout-out young Agent A. for this sincere & chuckle worthy letter of apology we received fessing up to absconding with two bracelets from the Spy Store. We appreciate and accept your apology, Agent A. All is forgiven.😀

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Spotted: Former US Naval Intelligence Counter-terrorism Officer @MalcolmNance in the new Spy Museum opening 5.12.19.

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CIA once implanted microphones in cats to spy on the Soviets. The $20 million Project #AcousticKitty failed when following an hour-long procedure, the bionic cat was released nearby & was unfortunately struck by a passing taxi and killed. #NeverForget #InternationalCatDay 🐱

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It's #NationalLipstickDay ! Meet the 'Lipstick Pistol', used by KGB femme fatales during the Cold War, a single shot 4.5 mm weapon, c. 1965. Both deadly and alluring, the lipstick gun delivered the ultimate “kiss of death." 💋

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Happy St Patrick’s Day from our favorite Irishman turned secret agent @PierceBrosnan ! 🍀 Brosnan played super spy James Bond @007 in four films from 1995 to 2002 (GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough, and Die Another Day).

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245 years ago today, George Washington penned this historic letter initiating America's first spy network -Culper Spy Ring. In the letter, written on February 4, 1777, Washington asks Nathaniel Sackett to spy for his country as an "intelligence director."

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@winger_desiree @slpng_giants @slpng_giants @th3j35t3r - Mission confirmed. Thank you for bringing this to our attention! We are working our agency to remove immediately

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Today in #SpyHistory : 52 Americans held hostage in Iran for 444 days freed, 1981. #Argo

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Today, we remember a true spy hero, Jeanne Vertefeuille (center), the tenacious CIA analyst who caught notorious mole, Aldrich Ames, died on this day in 2012. #spyhistory

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50 years ago today, five men are arrested for breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the #Watergate Hotel. The suspects had burglary tools, cameras and film, and three pen-size tear gas guns in their possession. The rest is history... #Watergate50

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Today in #SpyHistory : SOE heroine Noor Inayat Kha, the first female wireless operator sent to occupied France, was arrested and interrogated at the SD Headquarters at 84 Avenue Foch in Paris, 1943.

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Celebrate #JamesBondDay and experience 50 Years of Bond Villains in the official @007 exhibition, "Exquisitely Evil" @IntlSpyMuseum ! See over 100 artifacts and props now on display. Use codephrase: TOPSECRET for special access discount all day long!

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"I have torn the trust of so many" -- Robert Hanssen, 2002 Today in #SpyHistory : FBI agent Robert Hanssen, one of the most damaging spies in US history, is arrested for selling US intelligence community secrets to Russia, 2001.

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On May 8, 1963, the first #JamesBond film, DR. NO, premiered in the U.S., introducing Ian Fleming's suave, super-spy "Bond, James Bond" to the masses. It is without question Sean Connery’s leading role in DR. NO became the prototype for all of the @007 adventures that followed.

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🎉🍸Happy 21st Birthday SPY!🍸🎉 On July 19, 2002, the International Spy Museum first opened its doors introducing the public to the secret and intriguing world of espionage. Over 12.4 million visitors and 21 years later, THANK YOU for spying on us! #LegallySPY

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“I use the furniture of espionage to amuse the reader..." Happy 89th Birthday to iconic spy novelist and former MI5 agent, David Cornwell aka John le Carré! Best known for books such "Tinker, Tailor , Soldier, Spy" and "The Spy Who Came In From The Cold". 📷: FT

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👁 Using our surveillance skills to spot Chris Evans and Ana de Armas filming #GhostedMovie at the Wharf, just blocks from @IntlSpyMuseum . #DC

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“I always give my bird a generous butter massage before I put it in the oven. Why? Because I think the bird likes it - and, more important, I like to give it.” —Julia Child (former OSS agent) #WednesdayWisdom Wishing you a #HappyThanksgiving from our SPY family to yours! 🦃🦃

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Today in #SpyHistory : On December 31, 1991, the hammer and sickle over the Kremlin was lowered and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics formally ceased to exist.

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Happy 109th Birthday Ian Fleming! Thank you for your service as an intelligence officer & for Bond, #JamesBond ! @007 @TheIanFleming

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Today in #SpyHistory : Britain's War Cabinet approves the creation of the Special Operations Executive, 1940.

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#SPYArtifact : Suitcase Radio, Model AN/PRC-5 used for sending & receiving shortwave communications. Issued by OSS, c.1944 #NationalRadioDay

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Josephine Baker - Entertainer, Activist & WWII French Resistance Spy A truly effective spy, no one suspected her sheet music was covered with messages written in invisible ink or that her dress contained hidden photographs. 📷: MKorman #BlackHistoryMonth

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"The methods of today’s Russian spies are similar to those of their Soviet predecessors." @intelhistorian @NewYorker

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Today in #SpyHistory : British code breakers intercept encrypted telegram from German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann to the German minister in Mexico, revealing his brazen plot to offer United States territory to Mexico in return for joining the German cause, 1917. #WWI

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He was “the single most valuable agent in CIA history,” declared a 1976 Agency paper. Today in #SpyHistory : Soviet intelligence officer Oleg Penkovsky who supplied the CIA with intelligence that ended the Cuban Missile Crisis was convicted of espionage and executed by the

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From all of us at SPY, and our special guest @GeorgeTakei , today we are celebrating the 100th birthday of Gene Roddenberry @StarTrek ! #Roddenberry100 @NASA @AwesomeCon

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#SPYFACT : In 1942, Dir. John Ford & his crew risked their lives to film the Battle of Midway; it would be Americans’ first view of combat. Wounded by enemy fire, Ford earned a Purple Heart—the film won this Oscar for Best Documentary. View Ford’s #AcademyAward @IntlSpyMuseum !

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"I did it for the money." Today in #SpyHistory : Former CIA officer Aldrich Ames admits he forwarded U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union, 1994. Ames was sentenced to life imprisonment for his activities which amounted to one of the most damaging spy cases in U.S. history.

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Today in #SpyHistory - 52 Americans held captive at the U.S. embassy in Tehran for 444 days were freed on January 20, 1981, ending the Iran Hostage Crisis. #ARGO

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It is with great pride that we announce the 2019 honoree for the Spy Museum's William H. Webster Distinguished Service Award is General Michael V. Hayden, former Director of the NSA and CIA, Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence. Learn more:

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Need a docuseries to binge this weekend? Check out @netflix 's gripping new series, #SpyOps . Intelligence operatives from MI6 to the CIA share insider stories of spy craft, Cold War campaigns, and coups carried out by covert agents.

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Today in #SpyHistory : In an airport tarmac in Vienna, the U.S. swapped 10 Russian "illegals" for four alleged double agents being held in Moscow for spying, 2010. It was largest known U.S.-Russian spy swap since the Cold War. Among the 10 returned to Moscow was...Anna Chapman.

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"Today there are more spies here in the US for Russia than during the Cold War." @intelhistorian via @newsyvideos

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