REASONS THAT THE WORLD OF SPIES IS A CRAZY PLACE

IN 1943 GEVORK VARTANIAN, A 19 YEAR OLD SOVIET SPY

FOILED A NAZI PLOT TO KILL STALIN, ROOSEVELT, AND

CHURCHILL WHILE THEY WERE MEETING IN TEHRAN, IRAN

THE REASON SADDAM HUSSEIN DENIED NUCLEAR

INSPECTORS INTO IRAQ WAS BECAUSE HE THOUGHT

THEY SPIED FOR THE US. A LATER INVESTIGATION

BY THE WASHINGTON POST FOUND HIS FEARS TO

BE LEGITIMATE

THERE IS A WAY TO LOG KEYSTROKES ACOUSTICALLY,

WHICH MEANS NO SOFTWARE IS REQUIRED…ONLY AN

AUDIO RECORDING DEVICE

WHEN ROALD DAHL WORKED FOR THE BRITISH

GOVERNMENT AS A SPY IN THE UNITED STATES, HIS

MISSION WAS TO SEDUCE POWERFUL WOMEN IN ORDER

TO GATHER INTELLIGENCE. HE WAS LATER SAID TO BE

A REAL LIFE JAMES BOND STYLE SPY WHO USED HIS

CHARM AND GOOD LOOKS TO HIS ADVANTAGE

DURING WORLD WAR I THE GERMANS BUILT A TREE

OUT OF STEEL THAT HAD JUST ENOUGH SPACE INSIDE

IT FOR A SOLDIER TO HIDE. THEN ONE NIGHT THEY CUT

DOWN A REAL TREE AND REPLACED IT WITH THEIR

STEEL CREATION WHILE FIRING ARTILLERY TO COVER

THE SOUND. THE ALLIES DIDN'T DETECT THE

"TREE SPY" UNTIL SEVERAL MONTHS AFTER

THEY HAD CONQUERED THE AREA

FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II, NUMEROUS SHORT WAVE

RADIO STATIONS POPPED UP AROUND THE WORLD

THAT TRANSMIT NOTHING BUT LETTERS AND NUMBERS.

THESE "NUMBERS STATIONS" ARE USED TO

TRANSMIT INFORMATION TO SPIES

BEFORE THE ADVENT OF DIGITAL CAMERAS, FILM FROM

SPY SATELLITES HAD TO BE EJECTED AND THEN

EITHER CAPTURED MID-AIR OR RECOVERED FROM

THE GROUND

SERGEANT STUBBY WAS AN AMERICAN WAR DOG

THAT WAS PROMOTED DURING WORLD WAR II. HE

BECAME SOMEWHAT OF A LEGEND, BUT ONE OF HIS

MOST FAMOUS EXPLOITS WAS HOLDING A GERMAN

SPY CAPTIVE UNTIL ALLIED FORCES ARRIVED

MARIUS A. LANGBEIN WAS A GERMAN SPY WHO WAS

SENT TO CANADA DURING WWII. INSTEAD OF SPYING

THOUGH, HE MOVED TO OTTAWA AND LIVED OFF

HIS SPYING FUNDS UNTIL THEY RAN OUT. HE THEN

TURNED HIMSELF IN BUT SINCE HE HADN'T DONE

ANY ACTUAL SPYING, CANADA JUST LET HIM GO.