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3 – Whittaker Chambers
In 1938 Whittaker Chambers defected. Well they call it defected but he was an American in the USA who worked for the NKVD but saw the light and severed relations with the Soviets. Defection is [more…]
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4 – Elizabeth Bentley
Elizabeth Bentley was another American born Soviet agent who turned against the Soviets. Whittaker Chambers became disillusioned with the Communists. Elizabeth was the woman scorned. She was the lover of Jacob Golos who ran quite [more…]
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2 – The Venona Project
The Venona Project was launched by the US Army Signal Intelligence Service in February 1943. The Russians had sent thousands and thousands of coded and enciphered messages over commercial telegraph services. The US Army decided [more…]
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1 – Stalin won the war
Instead of diving further into the UK’s entanglement with the commies in the thirties, it’s time to take a look at what was going on over the pond. Much of the thirties antics over here [more…]
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The Lawn Road flats
The Lawn Road flats in Hampstead, also known as the Isokon Building, were built in 1934 in the style known as Bauhaus or Le Corbusier. This is often known these days as brutalist and you [more…]
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The Woolwich Arsenal case
One of the few spy cases that was prosecuted in the thirties was the Woolwich Arsenal case. The background to this case was twofold, the Russians were spying on us anyway and they really needed [more…]
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The spy who came in from the Co-op
After the 1920s, it’s time to take a look at the 1930s. The spreading of the revolution was one of the top priorities of the Bolsheviks. Almost as soon as they gained power in Russia [more…]
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The Oshima telegram
In May 1944 the Japanese Ambassador to Berlin was Mr Oshima. He had a face to face meeting with Adolf on May 28 1944 and sent the results to Tokyo encoded using Purple which had [more…]
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Split right down the Axis
As we all know, the Axis was an agreement between Germany, Italy and Japan to come to the assistance of each other in case of attack. What is often forgotten is that three other countries [more…]