Resultat för "usa" i Spionage True Crime

What happens when the FBI's undercover man becomes unwanted by the FBI? For twenty years, Hugo lived in a world most people see only in movies. It was a harrowing life, from working outside J. Edgar Hoover’s hallowed office to operating in the ‘Dungeon on the Top Floor’, the...

Il 13 maggio 1981 Papa Giovanni Paolo II veniva ferito gravemente da 2 colpi di pistola esplosi da Ali Agca. Ma si è trattato davvero del gesto isolato di un pazzo? Questo è quello che vorrebbe farci credere la ricostruzione ufficiale dei fatti, ma appare quantomeno strano che un killer professionista come Agca abbia organizzato in completa autonomia un'azione così clamorosa. Analizzando i fatti ci si rende conto che questa vicenda è un mix perverso di servizi segreti, lotte di potere interne al Vaticano, terroristi internazionali e interessi politici.

The German Spy in America gives a firsthand documentation of German espionage and sabotage in the U.S. in the lead-up to World War I. Published in 1917 just before the U.S. entered World War I (with a foreword by Theodore Roosevelt), it details German attempts at sabotage and infiltration in the first two and a half years of World War I, including attempts to provoke Mexico to war against the United States, provisions for the invasion of Canada, and the sinking of the liner Lusitania in 1915, which cost the lives of 113 American citizens and shifted U.S. opinion decisively against Germany.

Many terms were bestowed upon the mysterious Fritz Duquesne throughout his colorful life, but perhaps the most fitting ever attributed to him was: "the most dangerous prisoner to have ever lived." But before this Boer warrior-turned-spy reached the heights of infamy that awarded him such acclaim, Fritz Joubert Duquesne lived a life of adventure that many people wouldn’t experience in a hundred lifetimes. From a young age, Fritz harboured a burning resentment toward the British army, stemming from the brutal treatment suffered by his family during the Anglo-Boer wars.