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Espionage

Espionage is mentioned in 1,790 articles and has appeared on 6 TIME covers

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The world's most famous spy is surely James Bond. But the vast majority of the espionage business bears little resemblance to a 007 mission. There's little running, leaping and hurtling through exotic cities, and even less gunplay. Most American spooks keep busy in surroundings that look more like a low-budget stockbroker's office or computer-heavy Silicon ... Read More

Espionage Articles

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THE WHITE CASE RECORD: BROWNELL:

Nov. 30, 1953

THE WHITE CASE RECORD JUST what information about Harry Dexter White had been given to President Truman by Feb. 6, 1946, when Truman allowed White's appointment to the International Monetary Fund to go through? Did Truman keep White so that the FBI would catch fellow conspirators? On these points there is a public record, and ...
Corporate Cloak and Dagger

Aug. 30, 1982 | By John Greenwald

New efforts are under way to stop an epidemic of industrial espionage Albert Franz Kessler, 39, a well-to-do Swiss citizen with business interests in Southern California, was among the passengers boarding the London-bound Trans World Airlines jetliner in Los Angeles last May 28. Wearing crisply pressed slacks and a sports shirt, Kessler was looking forward ...
Books: Great Improbabilities

Dec. 1, 1941

TOTAL ESPIONAGE—Curt Riess—Putnam ($2.75). Adolf Hitler once remarked of his hopes and methods: "The greatest improbability is the most certain." If this book had no other value, it would make that statement dangerously clear. For the Nazis, relying as always upon the moderate rationality of the world at large, have made such use of "improbabilities" ...
Eyeing The Competition

Mar. 22, 1999 | By Daniel Eisenberg

Corporate espionage is so pernicious that the U.S. passed a law to curb it. But in today's global economy, dirty tricks are all in a day's work
The World: Spies: Foot Soldiers in an Endless War

Oct. 11, 1971

OUTSIDE London's Marlborough Street magistrates' court one morning last week, a throng of newsmen waited impatiently. The object of their interest, an ostensibly minor Soviet trade official named Oleg Lyalin, 34, failed to show up to answer the charges against himâ€”"driving while unfit through drink." He was resting instead in a comfortable country house near ...