spies
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The club had previously brought together the core of the Bloomsbury Group and, shortly before Hobsbawm’s time, the Soviet spies known as the Cambridge Five.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
“Everybody in the production office made a huge deal of it, pretending like they were spies, because I knew they’d think that was cool.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
One of North Korea's best-known spies was Jeong Su-il, who entered South Korea in 1984 posing as Muhammed Kansu, a Filipino-Lebanese academic.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
It also built up a network of spies across the developing world to foster revolution.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
Lona lived the rest of her life in a dacha outside Moscow, training younger spies.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
