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  AMC Spies: A Cold War Daybook
Spies: A Cold War Daybook is a Windows calendar and screen saver that will tell you stories from the dark history of twentieth-century espionage.
Spies: A Cold War Daybook can be configured both to appear on command — whenever you run it, or every morning when your computer boots up — and as a conventional screen saver, whenever your system has been idle for a predetermined period.
Unlike spy movies in which the hero always manages to get the secret microfilm, evade a few deranged killers from an unnamed Eastern European nation and make love to any number of women he hadn't met 24 hours earlier, the stories in Spies: A Cold War Daybook are true.
www.mindworkshop.com /alchemy/spies.html   (1065 words)

  
  Espionage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The term espionage is most readily associated with state spying on potential or actual enemies, primarily for military purposes, but this has been extended to spying involving corporations, known specifically as industrial espionage.
The term intelligence officer is also used to describe a member of the armed forces, police officer or civilian intelligence agency who specialises in the gathering, fusion and analysis of information and intelligence in order to provide advice to their government or another organisation.
Spymaster is a term often used in literature for the superior of a spy ring.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Espionage   (1853 words)

  
 Civil War Spies
As a spy, one must gather information quickly and get it back to the pople who need it as fast as possible, for the information could lose value.
Miss Van Lew was one of the many spies who decided independently to spy for her government.
Her identity was then known, and her career as a spy was compromised due to that.
www.angelfire.com /mo/rdthng1/page3.html   (2620 words)

  
 AMI Spies: A Cold War Daybook
Spies: A Cold War Daybook is a Windows calendar and screen saver that will tell you stories from the dark history of twentieth-century espionage.
Spies: A Cold War Daybook can be configured both to appear on command – whenever you run it, or every morning when your computer boots up – and as a conventional screen saver, whenever your system has been idle for a predetermined period.
Unlike spy movies in which the hero always manages to get the secret microfilm, evade a few deranged killers from an unnamed Eastern European nation and make love to any number of women he hadn't met 24 hours earlier, the stories in Spies: A Cold War Daybook are true.
www.alchemy-mindworks.com /alchemy/spies.html   (984 words)

  
 August Spies
Spies emigrated to the United States in 1872 and settled in Chicago where he became a upholsterer.
While Spies was making a speech, the police arrived and opened-fire on the crowd, killing four of the workers.
All the men were found guilty: Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fisher, Louis Lingg and George Engel were given the death penalty.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAspies.htm   (1546 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Spies: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-31)
Jokes aside Spies is a really good book but i would recommend you dont take it on holiday as it isnt exactly what i'd call 'light' reading.
Spies may be a well crafted book, but that doesn't make it an interesting read.
Spies may be a worthwhile read if you have hours to understand it's true meaning etc. and also if you want to re-live the war era for the second time.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0571212964   (1611 words)

  
 SPIES
Technically, it may be legal, but the intent to evade the spirit of the laws protecting the citizens of those two nations is clear.
It is against the law for the CIA or the NSA to spy on American citizens.
With global positioning satellites, brain scanners, cameras so small they can float on air among other toys, they have an amazing array of methods to spy on you, especially if you are known to have unfriendly attitudes toward their agenda.
www.geocities.com /northstarzone/SPIES.html   (1078 words)

  
 .:. the official website of holeg and spies audiovisual project .:. cinematic music
This first audiovisual artwork of Spies - notinism.org - was a command of Techno Flux : a music production subdivision of one of the main Japanese high technology companies.
Since 1998, Spies has been introduced to this company thanks to Juno Reactor, co-composer of the movie soundtrack of Matrix 2 and 3.
A year later, Spies entered the famous Pompidou centre in Paris...
www.spies.tv   (358 words)

  
 Spies &
Even now it is difficult to decide what the poor woman's real role was in the events for which she was sentenced to death.
Numerous 'spies' and 'traitors' were executed, sometimes in wholesale lots en masse.
And yet spying was as much a part of war as anything else and went on in many forms.
www.greatwardifferent.com /Great_War/Spies/Spies_00.htm   (983 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Ex-spies held after S Korea protest
The demonstrators were commandos in the military when they were deployed as spies.
Government officials said many of the spies received compensation paid at the end of their missions, something the former spies deny.
Spies became less important from the 1970s as the South Koreans and the Americans began to use more sophisticated satellite intelligence systems.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/world/asia-pacific/2287378.stm   (342 words)

  
 All about The Cambridge Spies
The spies were Burgess, Blunt, Maclean, and Philby.
Great spies are more interesting in fact than in fiction, more fascinating in reality than in the legends that grow up around them.
It is easy to forget that successful spies, by their treachery, are some of the most adept of killers.
www.crimelibrary.com /spies/cambridge/cambridgemain.htm   (572 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Spies: A Novel: Books: Michael Frayn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-31)
Spies will appeal strongly to readers of a certain age, who as children in a pre-television era relied on their own resourcefulness and imagination to entertain themselves, who literally assembled their own universes from found materials.
Spies is, moreover, one of the very best depictions of a child's groping to make sense of the adult world from within the conspiratorial know-it-all world of childhood.
Spies is an assigned novel I have to study for English Literature at AS level.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312421176?v=glance   (2270 words)

  
 Internet Archive: Details: Private SNAFU: Spies
I wish that more children could have the opportunity to see these cartoons with a careing adult to explain the stereotypes and why things were as they were.
Yet, he gives out bits and pieces and spies are everywhere, keeping with wartime paranoia.
The film is replete with stereotypes of the enemy, yet there is still something timeless about the humor.
www.archive.org /details/private_snafu_spies   (304 words)

  
 The Tale of the Five Cuban Spies - Worldpress.org
It's 2002 in Cuba, otherwise known as "The Year of the Heroes Held Prisoner by the Empire." That is, at least, according to the free wall calendar that came with the Jan. 1 edition of the Cuban government's daily newspaper Granma.
The spies' trial has been mirrored by months of fervid "free the five" rallies and an abundance of rousing news reports on government-owned television casting the convicted agents as chivalrous, self-sacrificing crusaders who had ventured "into the belly of the beast" to protect their country.
But whether one stands north or south of Florida Straits, the trial of the five Cuban agents raises a number of important questions about the United States' relationship with anti-Castro militants, particularly in light of the new war on terrorism.
www.worldpress.org /Americas/369.cfm   (1116 words)

  
 Untitled Document
Their spying efforts proved to be part of a much larger intelligence gathering operation that targeted some 12,000 individuals and more than 600 left-of-center organizations in northern California.
The plaintiffs say they were illegally spied on by Bullock, then considered the ADL's top "fact-finder" by his now deceased chief, Irwin Suall, and that such spying constituted an invasion of privacy under the provisions of the California Constitution.
Although Ottawa has said publicly it was convinced all along the spy claims were false, internal documents obtained yesterday show the matter has continued to concern the government and has been the subject of behind-the-scenes diplomacy.
www.jewishtribalreview.org /spies.htm   (12664 words)

  
 Funagain Games: Top Secret Spies
Whenever a spy is moved to the house with the safe, all spies score based on where they are sitting at the time.
Players must be careful not to move their spy too well or their opponents will guess their spy quickly and work against their spy scoring points.
You see only your spy, whose color is represented by both a token on the scoring track and a figurine on the board.
www.funagain.com /control/product/~product_id=012127   (1282 words)

  
 The Seattle Times: Arts & Entertainment: Ex-agent sleuths truth, fiction about TV spies
"Their focus is on the impact of the [spy] business on a person's life." And despite the excitement of the work, that impact can be not great; Quinn's had relationship troubles because of the secretive and all-consuming nature of his job.
The spy biz "can be very difficult on anyone trying to live a normal life outside of work," Baker said.
What's not so real: Jack's known for his rule-breaking ways, but spy agencies and anti-terrorist squads "are not lawbreaking organizations, despite what some conspiracy theorists want you to believe," Baker says.
seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/artsentertainment/2002142091_spyshows06.html   (632 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Books | By genre | Spies like us
Stephen Wheatley looks back in old age, and from a different country, on the wartime summer when everything changed for him, in the quiet suburb where he lived with his family.
The 'spies' of the title are the German agents whom boyish imagination sees round every corner, but the term applies just as well to Stephen himself and his best (if not only) friend, Keith Hayward, once they get it into their heads to watch people's movements.
Spies works as a mystery, as a war story and as a coming-of-age narrative.
books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/generalfiction/0,6121,647609,00.html   (766 words)

  
 Israeli Spying in America
It is that Israel itself is subject to spying, for example by the Russian Mafia and organized crime, and also that it has in the past sold U.S. technology to other nations, e.g.
We would also point out that many, many American Jews oppose Sharon-Likud and are in the forefront of exposing the spies, lies and Likud dominance in Washington.
Today rather, it is the political Religious Right which now shields the lobby, giving cover, money and respectability, e.g.
www.againstbombing.com /israelispying.htm   (837 words)

  
 Lamson Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-31)
Spies And Spymasters : A Concise History Of Intelligence
The War Between The Spies : A History Of Espionage During The American Civil War
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
www.plymouth.edu /library/opac/subjkey/spies   (59 words)

  
 Telegraph | News | North Korea 'bred spies using former US soldiers'
An American army sergeant who spent 40 years in North Korea has revealed that the Stalinist state operated a programme to breed spies who could pass themselves off as Westerners.
According to Mr Jenkins's account, the Americans were allowed to marry only so that they could produce spies for North Korea, "so they could target American interests in South Korea and beyond".
The claim that North Korea ran a spy breeding programme is the latest in a long list of extraordinary operations that North Korea is believed to have undertaken in its struggle to gain information about the West.
www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml;sessionid=AFQQPHM41OJYFQFIQMGSM54AVCBQWJVC?xml=/news/2004/09/05/wnkor05.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/09/05/ixportal.html   (700 words)

  
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 Anthropologists as Spies
On December 20, 1919, under the heading "Scientists as Spies," The Nation published a letter by Franz Boas, the father of academic anthropology in America.
The most significant reaction to this letter occurred ten days later at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), when the association's governing council voted to censure Boas, effectively removing him from the council and pressuring him to resign from the national research council.
Three out of four of the accused spies (their names, we now know, were Samuel Lothrop, Sylvanus Morley and Herbert Spinden) voted for censure; the fourth (John Mason) did not.
www.thenation.com /doc/20001120/price   (1075 words)

  
 CVCO - Overbooked: Spies Mystery Booklist
PW Old Flames is a riveting spy novel sparked by historical events, with a twisting, turning plot that The Sunday Times (London) declares "a strange, thoughtful, quiet, intelligent spellbinder of a book, penetrating the very heart of betrayal."
PW The bestselling author of The Unlikely Spy and The Mark of the Assassin returns with a new hero and a thrilling story of Middle East political intrigue and terrorism that covers three continents and shows the peace process in jeopardy.
Art restorer and sometime spy Gabriel Allon is sent to Vienna to authenticate a painting, but the real object of his search becomes something else entirely: to find out the truth about a photograph that has turned his world upside down.
www.overbooked.org /booklists/crime_fiction/spies.html   (960 words)

  
 WOOHP • Totally Spies - Home
Totally Spies is back as promised on April 3rd, with brand-new season 4 episodes.
The full Totally Spies schedule for April is listed on our TV Schedule page.
But any Totally Spies is better than no Totally Spies, and we suppose beggars can't be choosers.
woohp.org /index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1   (340 words)

  
 Spies DVD - Kino on Video
Rudolf Kleine-Rogge stars as Haghi, the head of an elaborate criminal empire, and Willy Fritsch is the undercover agent assigned to topple the diabolical king from his throne.
Filled with the sexual intrigue and high-tech gadgetry that continue to define the genre, Spies remains remarkably contemporary, even 75 years after its premiere.
This newly restored edition of Spies is composed of the best surviving 35mm film elements, assembled from archives throughout the world.
www.kino.com /video/item.php?product_id=833   (174 words)

  
 Totally Spies TV Show - Totally Spies Television Show - TV.com
A Spy is Born (Part 2), continues as the first ep in Season 2.
Usually Mandy is always trying to get him away from the spies because she wants him for herself.
As the spies investigate, they find out that the sinister force behind the makeup is an ex-beauty queen, named Miss Vanity.
www.tv.com /totally-spies/show/6608/summary.html&full_summary=1   (1113 words)

  
 Spies Online
Spies Online has many investigative resources for private investigators and amateur sleuths that will assist in finding people or doing background checks.
There are many programs on the market that sell links that Spies Online provides here free.
Disclaimer: Spies Online Web Author will not be responsible for the use of any of the information on this page or any consequences resulting from using that information.
www.spiesonline.net   (513 words)

  
 Chapter 13 Sun Tzu The Art of War and Strategy Site.
For dead spies we use agents to spread misinformation to the enemy.
Therefore, of those close to the army, none is closer than spies, no reward more generously given, and no matter in greater secrecy.
If a spy's activities are leaked before they are to begin, the spy and those who know should be put to death.
www.sonshi.com /sun13.html   (582 words)

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