Test 1 Flashcards
Who photographed The Lyushkov debriefing documents?
Soviet military intelligence agent Richard Sorge.
What did Sorge believe that one consequence of the Lyuchkov document was?
a danger of joint Japanese-German military action against what was seen as a weak Soviet Union.
When did the Soviet and Japanese had fight each other in a series of border incidents on the Manchurian frontier?
1938
What happened because Sorge gave them a microfilm of Lyushkov report?
Soviet military leadership knew what Japanese expected of Soviet troops in combat when they pushed across the border at Khalkin-Gol.
Who, in order to confuse the Japanese, built up his forces to a greater than expected level?
General Georgi Zhukov
Who was able to report that Japan was not massing large-scale units in Japan to join the fighting in Khalkin-Gol?
Richard Sorge
Whose activity in connection with Lyushkov affair was one of his greatest services to Soviet military intelligence?
Richard Sorge
What was the decisive turning point that created fear and doubt for Japanese in their speculation about attacking USSR through Siberia?
Khalkhin-Gol
When did the fighting at Khalkhin-Gol begin escalating?
Since April 1939, when Hitler-Stalin negotiations began.
When did Khalkhin-Gol end?
It ended in mid-September, a few weeks after pact was signed and Poland had fallen.
What happened in 1 September, 1939?
German forces took western Poland.
What happened 17 September 1939
Soviets entered eastern Poland and then annexed Baltic states.
Who was the Union spy who casually presented himself as Confederate railroad official?
James Andrews
Who was a spy that served as a romantic figure?
Belle Boyd
Who spied for the Union by sending valuable intelligence to Union officers, providing food and medicine to prisoners of war and helping plan their escapes, and running her own network of spies?
Elizabeth van Lew
Who went behind enemy lines disguised as a Black man or an Irish peddler woman?
Sarah Emma Edmonds
What did Sarah Emma Edmonds enlist as?
Michigan volunteer infantry company serving as a spy, field nurse, mail carrier and soldier.
What was Sarah Emma Edmonds alias?
Frank Thompson
What book was written about Fritz Kolbe?
A Spy at the Heart of the Third Reich.
What was the significance of the “Great Locomotive Chase”?
it illustrated the ease of infiltrating the other side.
What is the difference between an employee of an intelligence agency and an intelligence source?
A source is someone who provides the officer with information.
What is the difference between an intelligence source and an intelligence target?
A target is who the source is getting information from
What was the impact of geography on the conduct of the US Civil War?
Capitals of North & South were 100 miles
apart and their proximity made them obvious targets for
rival armies as well as rival spies.
Who supervised intelligence matters in the beginning of the Civil War?
The State Department
What did some union spies do?
They seemed to be spying
on other Union spies.
What invention supported Union
intelligence efforts?
The telegraph system
What type of transport the union use to spy on the South?
Observation balloons
Understand the purposes of war time deception.
- Lure enemy into exploitable action
2. Provide enemy with plausible misinformation
The observation balloons support the
development of what?
aerial photography
Who started one of the first spy agencies under Abraham Lincoln’s presidency?
Alan Pinkerton
What was the biggest motivation for starting the Bureau of Military Intelligence?
Dissatisfaction with Pinkerton’s men
War time contributions of virginia hall
American spy with British special ops exec during ww2
Virginia hall worked with the CIA in what department?
Special activities division
What did the the gestapo say about Virginia hall?
Most dangerous of all allied spies
What is an example of wartime deception?
The D-day experience shaped us military policy on planning and executing.
Normandy. Key to our success was that the German intelligence officers did not correctly interpret information that they collected
Who were the practitioners of war time deception?
Churchill and Roosevelt
What was the key to our success in Normandy
The German intelligence officers did not correctly interpret information that they collected
What helped shaped US military policy on planning and executing?
The D-day experience
