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American entertainment site eBaum's World has collected and not very well known, but in general, amazing facts of the spy life. We present you with seven of them, with additional interesting moments.

1. In 1960, the CIA spent $ 20 million on the cat, which is equipped with special equipment for espionage. With its help, the Americans were hoping to overhear conversations of staff of the Soviet Embassy. But before they send a cat on the first job, she was hit by a taxi as it went. Animals not only survived, but has lived "a long and happy life," as described later one of the CIA. The project itself in a few years was recognized as a failure.





2. Chevalier d'Eon was a French spy, diplomat, one of the best fencers, a soldier and ... a court lady. And the fact that he is a man, revealed only after his death, says the site. In fact, according to historical sources, including personal notes d'Eon, the first half of his life (49 years) he spent as a man, and the second (33 more years) - as a woman. However, in the "male" d'Eon is the period in a woman's appearance came with a secret spy mission to the court of Russian Empress Elizabeth.



3. In 2009, suddenly became aware that the American writer Ernest Hemingway was a failure KGB spy named "Argo". He was recruited in 1941, but did not provide any useful information. Of this fact in the life of Nobel laureate, the world learned from the book "Spies: The Rise and Decline of the KGB in America." In addition to the two Americans, a co-author listed Alexander Vassiliev, a former KGB officer. It was on his discharge from the archives department at the Lubyanka, these data are based.



4. The Soviet scientist spy George Koval, who worked in the United States during the Manhattan Project (1940), stole nearly all US nuclear secrets, alone USSR supplied key technology and was uncovered as a spy in 2002 alone. He died in Moscow in 2006 at the age of 92 years.



5. Gevork Vartanyan Soviet spy was only 19 years old when his team conducted an operation to thwart the attempt on Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt. Agents Hitler planned to kill the leaders of the three powers during the Tehran Conference in 1943.



6. One of the chiefs of British intelligence, Kim Philby was actually a Soviet spy. It was discovered in 1963, when he was secretly flown to Moscow. Prior to that, he spent 20 years successfully passed the USSR important documents. Once, in 1952, Philby came under suspicion and was questioned British intelligence, but the evidence is not enough, and he was released. And after 4 years again took on the secret service.
It is with Philby wrote one of the main characters remarkable novel by John Le Carre 'Spy, get out ", in which the eponymous movie filmed.



7. Extracting information British spies pretending stupid scattered, portrayed by tourists and masked sketches of military installations under drawings of butterflies and plants.

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