Spies Book Flashcards
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Kenji Doihara
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- Japanese army major, career stalled; nude pics of cousin to prince to get post as military attaché in China where espionage and covert action common with goal of weakening government to pave way for Japanese conquest; infiltrated Anfu business network with connections to government; recruited underground to form mobs to demonstrate
- To Manchuria to create conditions for Japan to seize region; create espionage network; take control of opium trade; assassinate warlord in control and instigate shootout between Manchurian and Japanese troops; Japan sent more troops across border and seize everything; put last Chinese emperor in charge nominally; turn attention to rest of China with destabilization efforts in south
- ordered back to Japan to organize defense against US invasion; captured by Americans; tried as war criminal and executed- only spymaster convicted for crimes committed in name of espionage
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Larry Wu-Tai Chin
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- Translator for US during WW2 when approached by Chinese intelligence; translate interrogations of Chinese during Korean War
- Worked for State Department and CIA
- told China about U-2 flights over China; details on change in US policy regarding China under Nixon; Kissinger’s reports on impressions of Chinese leaders
- used spy money to gamble
- ousted when a Chinese intel officer defected
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Nikolai and Nadezhda Skoblin
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- she was born wealthy but bolshevic revolution left her poor; recruited by bolshevic CHEKA to penetrate white organization through her singing, made friends with high-up leaders to gain intel
- he was czarist officer who fought for whites in civil war; met when she was about to be executed by Whites, he stopped it
- CHEKA had her recruit him; wanted holy Russia with him as leader, and thought using CHEKA as stepping stone
- Go to Paris of white exile HQ; became leader of combat forces and aware of forgery skills; when all fighters sent to Russia disappear, exiles look for mole
- Offer service to German SD to gain control of exile movement, give intel that said soviet military planning coup against stalin; docs handed to stalin and military purge, just as stalin wanted
- Found out when kidnapped exile military leader who left note on his desk; KGB offer to help him escape and then kill him because knew too much
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Ian Fleming
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- British naval intel officer
- Crazy ideas: black propaganda radio against german military, decrease soldiers morale; assault unit number 30- missions behind enemy lines; get nazi senior leader Hess to defect to sow dissention
- MI6 in NY, help Bill Donovan create plan for US intel agency, template for CIA
- Novelist, wrote James Bond
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Ernest Hemingway
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- Amateur spy and asset of ONI; gave intel heard during travels about plan for pearl harbor, no one listened
- Went to Cuba and gave intel to ambassador Braden that fascist sympathizers ready to take over; network of Spanish refugees- “papa’s crook factory”- never got intel or found subs
- FBI mad but State refuse to close op down; equip Pilar boat with heavy radio, guns; op later shut down
- Remain under surveillance which lead to open u of FBI spying ops and Hoovers reputations goes down
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Graham Greene
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- Writer volunteer during WW2, join MI6 even though communist in school and friend of Philby
- Sent to Sierra Leone to watch shipping lanes; bored and started pranks on reports
- Wrote satire Our Man in Havana
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Somerset Maugham
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- Somerville; Recruited by M11(c) to watch german agents in Switzerland
- Went to Petrograd to gain intel on new revolutionary government, survive? How to keep in power? Don’t want them to pull out of ww1
- Too late, german intel arrange for Bolshevik leaders to sneak back into Russia and seize power
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Lavrentri Beria
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- friend of Stalin, met when forming failed underground revolution; recruited to CHEKA by Dzerzhinsky
- head of KGB, work on consolidating stalins power, extensive purge of KGB
- created conveyor system to ensure confession of prisoners, sincerity labs to develop torture techniques, and death houses to poison people
- promoted to head ministry of internal affairs; tasks: program to develop atomic bomb and strategic rocket capability
- when stalin die, assume he’d be in control; military execute him instead
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George Blake
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- Diamond; grew upwith communist uncle in Egypt, join british military; hate Britain because fiancées family wouldn’t let her marry jew
- to set up MI6 station in korea, captured by North for 3 years, let go and assign to Berlin to work joint MI6-CIA committee overseeing ops
- expose Operation Gold- tunnel under border of E/W Berlin to tap into Russia communication; ID MI6&CIA officers in Berlin station; ID Popov
- Polish KGB asset outed him; escaped prison and smuggled to Moscow
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Vitali Yurchenko
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- Alex, Robert redman; Security officer at DC embassy- specialize in foreign intel ops, head of counterintel
- KGB defector, walk-in in Rome; knew ID of all agents at DC embassy and assets
- affair with soviet diplomat wife, wanted her to leave husband and go with him to US, she says no
- said NSA penetrated by former employee Ronald Pelton who blew Op Ivy Bells on underseas cables; CIA ops in Russia blown by Howard; moles in W.German counterintel and Canada; revealed nightcrawler operation to trawl bars for assets
- CIA mishandled- DCI Casey leaked, agents mocked; walked out of restaurant and into soviet embassy
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FW Winterbotham
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- MI6 to create aerial recon from planes op; shutters open and camera takes pics; able to fly over sensitive area particularly in Germany when Hitler rearming
- Liason to ULTRA op, needed to disseminate info without revealing where came from, est special liaison units where agents assigned to field to report intel
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Vladimir Vetrov
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- Create Line X for KGB to steal western tech so didn’t fall behind US; disillusioned and talked about it with French friend; became asset and gave secret docs that said where soviet military technologically deficient, IDs of agents and assets
- killed other officer in panic, why? Lead to being found out; West takes down line x; codenamed Farewell, executed
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Elsbeth Schragmueller
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- Censored mail during WW1 and created intel op and showed spies using mail, develop system of text analysis
- German spy trainer, Fraulein Doktor, Tiger Eyes; run mil intel training school and develop new curriculum; created discard technique; trained Mata Hari
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Nikolai Artamanov
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- Soviet naval caption, escape and cross into Poland on boat; taken to US, new ID as Shadrin and work at ONI, CIA suspicious, planted?
- Igor Kochnov, Kittyhawk, KGB head of CI at embassy DC, assigned to convert Shadrin to double, if CIA help him then he’ll give intel, intel was low-grade
- Shadrin receive KGB training and meet officials in Vienna, kidnapped; Yurchenko said he given too much knockout drug and died, other source said still alive
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Claude Dansey
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- Haywood, Z, Uncle Claude; british mil intel MO5; DC against Irish revolutionaries, make many contacts; ww1 work with US to combat german intel ops
- MI6 chief of rome to watch Mussolini; not impressed with mi6, incompetent; created own Z network of businessmen for when mi6 fall; fell when station in hague penetrated
- Responsible for passing ultra info to soviets saying Germany was planning to invade, use Ruldolf Roessler
