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☆ Opinion: How the era of the counterspy changed history
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-08 | by ( Opinion Tim Naftali | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

First of all, their main job was to get false information to Adolf Hitler — rather than to steal Nazi secrets. And, secondly, some of these spies didn’t actually exist — they were completely made-up creations of British intelligence. But World War II would see a dramatic expansion of the offensive use of counterspies — not simply to prevent the enemy from knowing things but to actively deceive the enemy by planting disinformation. I also met the man who came up with the D-Day deception, Roger Fleetwood Hesketh, who was a trained architect. He told me that for the D-Day deception, codenamed Fortitude South, he had drawn on different talents.

Persons: Tim Naftali, Adolf Hitler —, didn’t, Counterespionage, —, Juan Pujol García, Garbo, Greta Garbo, ” —, Juan Pujol Garcia, Keith Waldegrave, ANL, ”, George Patton, Hitler, ” Hitler, Roger Fleetwood Hesketh, Alan Turing, counterspies, Anthony Blunt, Kim Philby, ’, Oleg Gordievsky, counterespionage, Robert Hanssen, Aldrich Ames, Hanssen, Ames, Mikhail Gorbachev Organizations: CNN, Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, Tim Naftali New York University, Allied, Nazi, Army, Pas des Calais, Facebook, Strategic Services, German Wehrmacht, US National Archives, British, Soviets, US, Soviet Union, USSR Locations: France, Pas des, Pas des Calais —, Belgium, British, Berlin, Spanish, United Kingdom, Britain, Buckingham, Calais, Normandy, Tokyo, German, England, Liverpool, Europe, counterespionage, USSR, London, Washington, America, Soviet, Soviet Union

☆ British Spies, Japanese Teens and a German Cop’s Wild Ride
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( Mike Hale | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

It has been a quiet season for international television on American screens — nothing has grabbed attention on a “Squid Game” or “Downton Abbey” scale. But barely a day goes by, in the streaming age, without an interesting series washing up from some foreign shore. Here are four recent shows worth tracking down, from an elegant British thriller to a Chinese dramedy about a demon god and an immortal warrior who meet cute on the mortal plane. ‘A Spy Among Friends’Alexander Cary, a writer and executive producer on “Homeland,” wrote this six-episode spy thriller as a leisurely, literate, three- or four-dimensional game of chess. Tightly controlled yet somehow relaxed, Lewis gives a performance in which the coldblooded manipulator and the sentimentally loyal bro coexist at every moment.

☆ A murit cunoscutul autor britanic John le Carre
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-14 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

Autorul britanic, renumit mai ales pentru romanele bazate pe conflictele Războiului Rece, a scris 25 de romane şi un volum de memorii, The Pigeon Tunnel (2016) și a vândut în total peste 60 de milioane de cărţi în întreaga lume. S-a inspirat din cariera sa de agent secret, ruinată de agentul dublu britanic Kim Philby, care a fugit în URSS după ce a dezvăluit KGB-ului identitatea reală a multor colegi britanice inclusiv Le Carre. Presa a avut însă o altă opinie, a povestit el, şi a decis că romanul „nu este doar autentic, ci şi un fel de mesaj revelator venit din Partea Cealaltă". Autorul american de romane horror Stephen King a deplâns pe Twitter moartea unui "uriaş literar" şi "spirit umanitar". Scriitorul şi istoricul britanic Simon Sebag Montefiore a afirmat pe aceeaşi reţea socială că este "bulversat" de moartea unui "titan al literaturii engleze.

Persons: Kim Philby, Le Carre, John, Stephen King, britanic Simon Sebag Montefiore Organizations: KGB, Guardian Locations: Rece, URSS, Le, britanică, Bonn, Germania, britanic

„Cu mare tristeţe trebuie să anunţ că David Cornwell, cunoscut în lume sub numele John le Carré, a decedat după o scurtă boală (fără legătură cu Covid-19) în Cornwall sâmbătă seară, 12 decembrie 2020. Scriitorul britanic a fost considerat un maestru al romanului de spionaj, multe dintre lucrările sale fiind ecranizate pentru marile ecrane. În cariera sa, John le Carré a scris 25 de romane și un volum de memorii publicat în 2016, The Pigeon Tunnel. A fost însă nevoit să se retragă din MI6, după ce agentul dublu Kim Philby l-a deconspirat în fața KGB-ului, alături de mulți alți compatrioți. Ultimul său roman a fost Agent Running in the Field, publicat în 2019.

Persons: David Cornwell, John, Jonny Geller, Curtis Brown, Kim Philby, Stephen King, britanic Simon Sebag Montefiore Organizations: MI6, KGB Locations: Cornwall, Londra, britanic

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