In movies, pictures, and books, spies are always excellent and sophisticated. However, in real intelligence life, espionage is no easy task.
CIA officials schedule lunch with Soviet agents
James Jesus Angleton is a dedicated public servant and one of the Western world’s most respected anti-spy specialists, leading the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) counter-intelligence industry for 21 years. . The maintenance of this chair after one of the following incidents is testament to his talent. Kim Philby was a shining star in British intelligence, sent to Washington in 1949 as a point of contact between the CIA and MI6. Every week, Angleton and Philby have lunch at a Harvey restaurant in Washington. Angleton was impressed with Philby’s upbringing in Cambridge, and because he felt proud to be able to have a drink with a British spy, every lunch turned into a martini-drinking contest.
In 1951, two of Philby’s associates fled to Moscow, Angleton maintained faith in Philby’s utter innocence, but still tacitly destroyed all evidence regarding his long lunch with The Friends Are From “Land of Mist”. After years of investigation, MI6 also concluded that Philby was innocent. Philby then defected to Moscow and admitted that he was recruited by the Soviet Union while still in Cambridge. The incident left Angleton increasingly confused, haunted and believed that the CIA had been systematically sabotaged by the KGB, until he left the agency.
Nazi agents operating in America
During World War II, the Nazis sent spies to America at least three times. In 1942, the agent named Operation Pastorius sent two teams of four spies each with civilian clothes, money, weapons, and explosives to the United States to sabotage its manufacturing and energy facilities. , throwing explosives at Jewish department stores, bombing public transport to spread terror …
The Long Island landing party was immediately discovered by the Coast Guard. An American soldier discovered a group of suspicious aliens when George John Dasch – the team leader – attempted to bribe him, and another member of the team went to two of them and asked a question of Dasch in German. A group of Americans returned to the abandoned landing sites, saw a submarine disappear in the country and found supply boxes buried, including German military uniforms.
The German spy team was gone, but Dasch and another member – Ernest Peter Burger – decided not to sabotage and terrorize, call the FBI and go to confession. But first, Dasch spent a day and a half playing. Then, arriving in Washington, Burger and the rest of the members stayed in a hotel, waiting; Dasch went to an FBI office, threw all the money left on an FBI agent’s desk, and asked to speak with Edgar Hoover (FBI Director).
Along with the other team, two people were arrested due to information from Dasch; One member of the group was an American – went home to his parents and “baked” a lot of money spent on the mission to buy a new car. Then he went to the FBI, explaining why he hadn’t signed up for the draft. He was followed by FBI agents and arrested. The fourth agent went to the movies a lot, and later, feeling lonely, went to meet friends, explained that he had come to America on a German submarine and was on a destructive mission and was captured.
In 1944, two German agents – one convinced German and the other American – an opportunist, parachuted into New York to gather intelligence. In a month, American William Colepaugh spent $ 1,500 drinking, gambling and entertaining girls. Just before Christmas, Colepaugh took all of the two spies’ money with $ 40,000 to gamble, and after Christmas, the penniless Colepaugh himself went to the FBI and claimed where Gimpel was hiding. . Most of the German spies during this period were taken to a military tribunal and executed; those who had the most cooperative attitudes were sentenced to long terms, being prisoners exchanged after the end of the war.
U.S. intelligence trusted Nazi spy
Dr Ignatz Griebl – a respected surgeon, pillar of the community, member of the Army Reserve and zealous fascist, from Germany to the United States in 1925. He It has cultivated engineers and technologists, persuading to supply American technology to Germany. Griebl runs a spy ring, wins two mistresses (money spent by the German government) as secretaries or mistresses to US military officials, and has a list of Jews. famous in America, when the Nazis ruled Germany.
In 1938, one of Griebl’s agents was captured by the FBI, and during questioning revealed Griebl. Griebl confessed everything to the FBI with ease and grace, as if he was waiting for an opportunity to be pardoned. The FBI found a Nazi transmitter and were very happy to release him until he was due to be present for a hearing at the jury session. The FBI agent was certain Griebl would be happy to come back to them so they could prosecute him for espionage. But Griebl had fled to Austria, where Griebl practiced medicine for the rest of his life.
The Dreyfus affair does not concern just one country
In 1894, when Germany and France were not friendly with each other, French military intelligence sensed that someone was providing information to the Germans. Police suspect that leaking confidential information is Alfred Dreyfus – a French officer of Jewish descent, is unpopular, but they have no evidence. Some documents were forged and mock meetings were held to try to find out correctly, so Dreyfus was taken to Devil’s Island off the coast of South America.
This case was widely covered by the French press and sparked lively debate. I accuse, the title of an article condemning the behavior of the “anti-Dreyfusards” has become a popular phrase, which is reused several times in various contexts.
Evidence was falsified, but when people started looking for fake evidence, officials responded with more fake evidence, made in secret and passed person-to-person in secret meetings. confidential. All the evidence, real and false, was shredded and dug up in the press, until the case could be raised from any point of view, depending on the point of view. And so an anti-espionage operation has become an experience, a cultural war.
Opponents of Dreyfus were traditionalists, religious and believed that if the military passed a decision against Dreyfus, their judgment should be honored, to preserve his honor. nation. The Dreyfusards were progressive, against the verdict. The incident sparked riots, marches and international political changes – not just between France and Germany. There were riots in Italy linked to the Dreyfus affair, and this disrupted relations between France and Italy until Dreyfus was tried again, exempted from all charges and returned to power. I am in the army. This man served in the First World War.
He sent an agent to the Manhattan Project
General Leslie Groves was the American responsible for the “Manhattan Tech Project” in 1942, working with some of the world’s most famous military officials, politicians and scientists, without making friends. This is not a problem for Groves. What was not good for him was the fact that the British allies refused to allow the United States to scrutinize and name any scientists it chose to send. The British protested. In the end, the United States backed down and the British sent their respected scientists to study the atomic bomb.
One of the scientists they sent was Klaus Fuchs, who for the next six years passed on details of the atomic bomb and then the hydrogen bomb. Fuchs returned to England in 1949, starting to work at the Harwell Atomic Energy Research Facility. Intelligence agents discovered the Soviet code and found out where it was. He spent ten years in prison, had his British citizenship revoked and went to East Germany. In socialist countries, Fuchs has an even more prestigious career than capitalist countries, even consulting Chinese scientists on how to build an atomic bomb.
Venona decodes it with its limited printing capabilities
In 1943, Gene Grabel, of the Signal Intelligence Service (a division created in 1930 responsible for encryption and encryption of the US Army during World War II, and in September 1945, became the Security Office. Military – ND), started a project codenamed Venona to decipher the extremely difficult crypto system of the Soviet Union. Soviet messages were digitally encrypted using books delivered to sender and recipient.
These books were only used once, making the code impossible to solve, but they encountered practical problems. The numbers in the books had to be random, and as the war continued, the volume of messages sent forced the government to print a large number of books. Books were reprinted, sometimes reused by operators who failed or could not get new ones, and as the war ended they were reused more and more.
Messages arriving at the address were not easy and slow, some were only decoded in the 1950s. But once some messages were decoded, others were decoded easier and faster. Project Venona warned officials of the presence of double agents – although Kim Philby was aware of the project and was regularly briefed on its progress. Due to the book’s limited resources, Venona traced the code, describing the truths of Klaus Fuchs and Julius Rosenberg.
Communist agents take advantage of the CIA
Karl and Hana Koecher struggled in Czechoslovakia, even though Hana’s parents were fairly senior members of the Communist Party. Karl was a comedian for a local radio station and often wrote satirical articles, making fun of the political situation in his country. This did not satisfy the local officials, so Karl and Hana went to America. Karl is a doctoral student in philosophy, but his skills are used more concretely than comedy or philosophy. His skills in foreign languages and his anti-Communist history make him the perfect CIA spy. Karl was recruited in 1973 and had access to highly confidential information almost immediately.
Karl’s case was not in trouble as he was a double agent with a carefully constructed cover. Radio programs calling for the overthrow of his regime have received the “green light” from the Czechoslovak intelligence agency. His discontent and hatred towards the party continued for many years. Its civilian screen in America is well constructed. In fact, at several times during his CIA career, even the KGB wasn’t quite sure who Karl was really working for.
What annoys Koechers in the intelligence community is the fact that they get a lot of information not from Karl’s work, but through fun parties and chat with officials in New York and Washington. . This not only helps them gain more information, but also makes knowledge hesitant to reveal about them, and the CIA is reluctant not to act on it, as to reveal it means to expose the “agency culture.” that no one wants to make public. The couple were not arrested until 1984 and eventually returned to Czechoslovakia for a prisoner exchange.
The Battle of Pearl Harbor happened because no one wanted to share it
In December 1941, a military attaché learned that the Dutch had decoded Japanese diplomatic information – the Japanese were planning to attack Hawaii, the Philippines, and Thailand. The attaché reported to his superiors, but the information was ignored. In Washington, analysts intercepted a message sent to the Japanese embassy – burning encrypted books and destroying crypto machines. During this time the Japanese fleet was moving south towards the Philippines; No one noticed that a few ships were getting too close to Hawaii.
Other analysts say the United States gets a lot of mixed messages and people have done what they can with those messages. (For example, the United States was warned of an attack on Pearl Harbor in January 1941. This is false information, as no attack was planned at that time.) Something about which most people agree that it is a failure of intelligence or a failure of comprehension. The United States underestimated the competitor’s capabilities and engines, and therefore appreciated a sense of false security.
Heinrich Albert is the best or the worst spy in the world
As can be seen, the humiliating mistake of one country is always the great intelligence success of another country. What is bad for one country is good for another. The closer the spy is to the zero-sum game, the better. This is what made Heinrich Albert Nap – a German diplomat in New York in 1914, under Ambassador Johann von Bergstorff – difficult to understand by doing some of the things Americans might suspect.
Some Americans supported Germany’s position during World War I, and even wanted to join the German army, but most Americans were against Germany, not interested in engaging in a “foreign” war. Von Bergstorff tries to shape public opinion by buying stocks in frontline newspapers and offering articles in support of the German position. Von Bergstorff was also responsible for creating, purchasing or stealing passports so that German sailors could enter and exit the United States freely. Albert is the one who pays, raises funds for all of these operations and pays.
U.S. intelligence officials suspected that Albert was involved in something fishy, so they followed his activities. One of those activities is taking a nap in a hot subway train, waking up surprised, and getting off the train without your briefcase. It turned out to be an expensive nap. American spies leaked papers in a briefcase to the press. Many citizens are German-American and have sympathy for their homeland, and even some unrelated to Germany support the German cause.
Although this was not the precise time of the United States’ entry into the war, the American people began to view Germany as a nation that actively opposed American interests. So Albert is clearly a classified agent, or something. After the war, Albert founded a law firm that represented American interests in Germany – just like before the war, he represented German interests in America. This begs the question of who was he actually working for?
