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 ...
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The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
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 ...
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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, ...
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Christopher Andrew and M. R. D. Foot
The Oxford Companion to World War II
In 1939–45 signals intelligence warfare was of far greater importance than it had ever been before and overshadowed human intelligence,
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology
In both biblical and classical times, spies were employed in intelligence-gathering in wartime. In his De Re Militari, written
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 ...
