Organisation: Office of Strategic Services

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Spy moms - the women of the CIA

The hidden history of American spycraft. By Abigail Jones

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Bridge of Spies to tell story of Cold War’s Rudolf Ivanovich Abel dealer Jim Donovan

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Church’s hierarchy shows its colours

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Irish diplomats used as American spies

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Spies by proxy

So Dev was ‘England’s greatest spy’. Yes, and the devil in disguise too

How Irish diplomats were caught up in tangled web of wartime deceit

WHILE at the National Archives previewing the State papers, which were officially released yesterday, I happened to be sitting beside Prof Ronan Fanning when I came across a letter written to him by the Irish ambassador to the US in 1977.

Sat, 29 Dec, 2007

How one American spy’s scheming fed the myth of Irish neutrality

TODAY marks the 60th anniversary of the famous American note demanding the recall of Axis representatives from Dublin on the grounds that they supposedly posed a threat to the forthcoming Allied invasion of Europe.

Sat, 21 Feb, 2004

US thought Nazi salute was stolen from cheerleaders

US wartime intelligence believed the Nazi salute may have been copied from American cheerleaders, rather than Mussolini's fascists.

Sat, 28 Jul, 2001