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Spy vs. Spy is a wordless comic strip published in Mad magazine. It features two agents involved in stereotypical and comical espionage activities. One is dressed in white, and the other in black, but they are otherwise identical, and are particularly known for their long, beaklike heads and their white pupils and black sclera.
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During World War II, the Nazis took over a Berlin brothel, Salon Kitty, and used concealed microphones to spy on patrons. Also during the war, the British used covert listening devices to monitor captured German fighter pilots being held at Trent Park. In the late 1970s, a bug was discovered in a meeting room at the OPEC headquarters in Vienna.
The device, embedded in a carved wooden plaque of the Great Seal of the United States, was used by the Soviet government to spy on the US. On August 4, 1945, several weeks before the end of World War II , a delegation from the Young Pioneer Organization of the Soviet Union presented the bugged carving to Ambassador Harriman, as a "gesture of ...
The black-painted aircraft being used for reconnaissance missions against the East Bloc in the late 1950s. One was rumored to have been shot down in 1956 while observing the Hungarian uprising. Two were operated by the Republic of China (Taiwan) Air Force, and one of these was known to have been shot down, on 18 February 1958, by Chinese fighters.
Spy Kids (Alamy, Getty Images) Once his role as Juni, the red-headed spy, came to an end, Daryl Sabara entered voice acting, lending his vocals to animated projects, including “The Polar Express ...
The Ultimate Spy Book. London: DK, 1996. Ultimate Spy. London: DK, 2002. Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs, from Communism to Al-Qaeda. New York: Dutton, 2008. Audiobook available. The Spy's Guide to Escape and Evasion. New York: Scholastic, 2003. The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception. New York: William Morrow, 2009.
The most famous example of a shoe phone in fiction is featured on the television show Get Smart.The use of a shoe phone is a gimmick of the show's main character, Maxwell Smart (played by Don Adams), a secret agent who has need to conceal a communication device in his shoe.