The target of G.M.’s sleuthing was Ralph Nader, 32, a Harvard Law School graduate who last year authored a book called ... retained a Washington law firm, which in turn paid out $6,700 to ...

It wasn’t easy being George. He lost his father at age 11 and then his mentor and half-brother just seven years later. He was a veteran of the French and Indian War when in his 20s and then ...

1. As the commander of an outmatched Continental Army, George Washington relied on his spies to anticipate enemy movements and thereby even the odds with the British. The letters Alexander Rose ...

For nearly two decades, one of the world’s most successful spies hid in plain sight ... over dim sum at Chinese restaurants in the Washington area. Indeed, she wasn’t even trained in ...

Such defectors and spies who ... this sturdy book of more than 600 pages is worth every minute. • Martin Di Caro hosts the “History as It Happens” podcast for The Washington Times.

Curbing the Islamic Republic’s nuclear ambitions has long been a priority in Washington ... minted agent is put on CIA books with a regular CIA paycheck. Such spies are sometimes issued the ...

Around the turn of the century, my former tennis partner grew a large ... Krivitsky was found dead in a hotel in Washington DC in 1941, “with a single bullet in his head, and not one but three suicide ...

In advance of his first non-fiction book ... Washington’s inner circle, their entire purpose was to ensure that there was no record of their actions. We were dealing with a story that was about ...

But former Washington Post reporter John ... Either way, though, his book is well worth picking up — an engaging story of how spies on opposite sides of the Cold War came together, with plenty ...

Despite its catchy title, How Spies Think doesn’t teach you how ... to set us on the latter course. Recent events in Washington have given him further grounds for optimism.

“Never,” he repeats, as we sit in the book-cluttered living room of his ... document in the National Security Archive at George Washington University. While acknowledging that “cats can ...

Two popular recent TV series, “Turn: Washington’s Spies,” about spy circles in Revolutionary ... During World War II and the years just before, things heated up. A great guide to spies is the 2017 ...