June 02, 2025
A famous American singer who moved to France in 1925, Josephine Baker used her fame to work as a spy in the French Resistance during World War II. She often carried secret intelligence reports written in invisible ink on her sheet music.
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Spies Like Us: 10 Famous Names in the Espionage Game
The cloak-and-dagger world of James Bond (inspired by the “ungentlemanly warfare” practiced by author Ian Fleming during World War II) is full of car chases, gun battles, and doomsday plots. In the real world of intelligence gathering, spies can often do more damage with a portable hard drive than
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