Sentence examples for espionage history from inspiring English sources

One of the most unusual cases in espionage history involved Chinese opera singer Shi Pei Pu.

"It usually refers to books about the espionage history of the second world war, how we broke the Nazi codes.

Anthony Blunt, the so-called fourth man in the Cambridge spy circle, remains one of the most enigmatic figures in espionage history.

Unfortunately, Wise sails through decades of espionage history like a casual purveyor of the obvious, pointing out that "spies are a different breed, they move in a secret world," and that "in the world of spies, nothing is entirely predictable".

Though usually labeled thrillers, they range over espionage, mystery, history and adventure.

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Favourite themes recur - espionage, teaching, friendship, history, sexuality, liberalism, disappointment - but the characters range from the famous (Kafka, Guy Burgess, King George III) to the lonely and overlooked.

In conversation, as in her book, she stressed Blunt's "astonishing act of compartmentalization," how he kept espionage and art history completely separate.

It's true that Mr. Tenet has always demonstrated intense dedication to the nation and his job, but he presided over some of the most astonishing and costly failures of American espionage in recent history.

As a former KGB man, Putin must be proud of what is surely the most successful espionage operation in history, one that succeeded beyond even Moscow's expectations – installing an admirer and sycophant in the White House.

It was one of the most remarkable hoaxes in the history of espionage.