espionage
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Michael O’Donnell praises “Alexander’s Feast” as a tale of Cold War espionage and intellectual combat that transmits “the chill in Europe as the Iron Curtain descended.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
"This activity supports Ministry of State Security espionage, which poses a threat to UK national security," MI5 said.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
An idealistic forum for postwar rebuilding, he discovers, has become a front for espionage and cynical realpolitik.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Detained in December 2023, he was handed a 10-year jail term last March for espionage, charges denied by the French government.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Over weeks of secret interviews, Blake and the KGB came to an agreement: He would provide the Soviet Union with information about any MI6 espionage operations, whether against Russia or its allies.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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Vocabulary from the Third and Final Presidential Debate, October 19, 2016
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