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
Philip Oltermann’s “The Stasi Poetry Circle” relates the absurdly true story of spies who became poets in an attempt to win the Cold War.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 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
Reddick loads her genre-blurring tale with outlandish intrigue involving Soviet spies, a capitalist cult and a roving choir that doubles as a Greek chorus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Six months later, when the Long Island station was finally shut down, Elizebeth learned that the FBI had actually been running it as part of a sting operation to catch Nazi spies.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
