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Allen Welsh Dulles

Allen Welsh Dulles  

(1893–1969), lawyer, foreign service officer, and intelligence official.The grandson of one secretary of state and nephew of another, Dulles entered the foreign service in 1914. He spent World War ...
espionage

espionage   Reference library

The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military

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Current Version:
2002
n.the act of obtaining, delivering, transmitting, communicating, or receiving information about the national defense with an intent, or reason to believe, that the information may be used ... More
Espionage, Economic and Industrial

Espionage, Economic and Industrial   Reference library

Macdonald Stuart

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History

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2005
Subject:
Social sciences, Economics
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1,404 words
Espionage is the stealing of secrets and is conventionally associated with military conflict. But commercial organizations also have their secrets and their theft is a form of ... More
humint

humint  

Human intelligence, as opposed to sigint, or signals intelligence. See spies.
scout

scout  

N.1 a soldier or other person sent out ahead of a main force so as to gather information about the enemy's position, strength, or movements.2 a ship or aircraft employed for reconnaissance, ...
spies

spies   Reference library

Christopher Andrew and M. R. D. Foot

The Oxford Companion to World War II

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Current Version:
2003
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History, Military History, Social sciences, Warfare and Defence
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In 1939–45 signals intelligence warfare was of far greater importance than it had ever been before and overshadowed human intelligence,

Spies and Intelligence

Spies and Intelligence   Reference library

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology

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2010

In both biblical and classical times, spies were employed in intelligence-gathering in wartime. In his De Re Militari, written

Tangier

Tangier  

Was an international zone, and port, within Spanish Morocco. In June 1940, when it appeared that Italy might take the zone over, Spain occupied it and dismantled the international administration. ...
U-2 Incident

U-2 Incident  

On 1 May 1960 a US high‐altitude Lockheed U‐2 spy plane was shot down by Soviet forces over Soviet territory, and its pilot Gary Powers taken prisoner. It worsened already tense relations between the ...

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