A disguised informant received a portion of a $10,000,000 reward for the killing of two senior leaders from the Abu Sayyaf Group terrorist organization in the Philippines in 2007.1yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
A CIA case officer is photographed at a dead drop location in Moscow, 1962 [2575x2575]3yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
The only two known white native-born North Koreans have appeared in several propaganda films over the years.2yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
A KGB agent runs through the night to escape capture in Wellington, New Zealand in September 1974. [720x523]3yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
The CIA designed an inflatable airplane in the late 1950s to allow downed pilots to rescue themselves3yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/aviation
The “Yankee Commandante” William Morgan holds a highly customized Model 1907 known as a Cuban Winchester used during the Cuban Revolution.2yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/ForgottenWeapons
A Technical Security Officer from the Diplomatic Security Service crawls out of a tunnel after the discovery of a hidden Soviet listening post inside the US embassy in Moscow in 1978. [589x389]2yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
9mm Uzi with Laser Defense Systems FA-14A laser sight, as carried by Bo Gritz's team during Operation Lazarus into Laos in 1982 [3156x2421]3yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/GunPorn
The Remote Control Pistol, issued by the British Special Operations Executive during World War II [537x698]3yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/GunPorn
Laotian refugees gather around the casket of CIA case officer Jerry Daniels, the only white man to ever receive a traditional three-day-long Hmong funeral.1yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
The CIA designed an inflatable airplane in the 1950s to allow downed pilots to rescue themselves3yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/flying
Code name “Kid” - the 19-year-old spy who cost the US $15,000,000,000.3yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
Members of Special Forces Detachment A served in Berlin as stay-behind teams throughout the Cold War, on a mission to buy NATO time in the event that World War III began.11mo ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
Llama Pressin - an anti-kidnapping pistol hidden in a sunglasses case [600x455]3yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/GunPorn
Gestapo officers investigating the Resistance in Paris in May 1943 inadvertently sent one of their agents into the clutches of a French serial killer.2yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
L-Tabloids, otherwise known as suicide pills, were issued to members of the Office of Strategic Services during World War II.2yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
A photo of three American contractors held hostage in the Colombian jungle served as the first proof of life for the men, who would spend nearly 2,000 days in captivity.2yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
The Sleeve Gun - developed by the British Special Operations Executive as a silent murder weapon3yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/guns
Witold Pilecki was a Polish operative who infiltrated the Auschwitz concentration camp to organize the resistance within.3yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
A single off-hand comment from a Soviet double agent in 1962 set off a decades-long mole hunt within the FBI which nearly crippled the agency.2yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
My second book, Covert Arms: Weapons from the World of Spycraft and Espionage is now available.2yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
A salvo rocket pistol was developed by Robert Mainhardt of MBAssociates in the 1960s. MBAssociates is best known for producing the Gyrojet line of handheld rocket launchers.2yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/ForgottenWeapons
The stunning transformation of Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko after he was poisoned in 20043yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
Actor Robert DeNiro stands arm in arm with former KGB agent Gennady Vasilenko, in a photograph which may well have saved Gennady’s life, years after it was taken.2yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
The corpse of Glyndwr Michael, a homeless Welshman who unknowingly took part in one of the greatest deception operations in history.3yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
Smokejumpers of the US Forest Service participated in clandestine operations all over the world3yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
Soviet firefighters attempt to gain access to the most sensitive areas of the US embassy during a fire emergency in August 1977.3yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
Former US Marine Corps pilot Major Daniel Edmund Duggan was arrested in Australia in October 2022 on charges that he was training Chinese fighter pilots in violation of multiple arms control laws.1yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
The only known photograph of Operation KAMEN in action; one of the most insidious plots of the entire Cold War.3yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
Xuehua “Edward” Peng is seen on a hidden FBI surveillance camera taping $20,000 in cash on the underside of a dresser drawer as payment to a Chinese spy in 2018.1yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
The only two known white native-born North Koreans have appeared in several propaganda films over the years.3yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
CIA officer John Downey walks across the Lo Wu Bridge from China into Hong Kong after spending more than 20 years in a Chinese prison.3yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
An apparent Israeli intelligence operation in New Zealand was interrupted by the disastrous 2011 Christchurch earthquake.2yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
The US Navy’s special projects boat the USS Halibut was one of the most unusual submarines ever designed.1yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
Korean activist and alleged CIA asset Adrian Hong Chang meets with the Obamas in the White House years before leading a raid on the North Korean embassy in Madrid, Spain.2yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
A Russian GRU agent known as Maria Adela Kuhfeldt Rivera lived and worked undetected in Italy for nearly ten years.1yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
FBI agent Richard Miller is photographed walking with his Russian mistress Svetlana Ogorodnikov in Los Angeles, CA in 1984.3yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
Lionel Crabb was an experienced Royal Navy diver who disappeared while conducting a clandestine examination of a docked Soviet ship in 1956.2yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
Grigori Syroezhkin has been called “The Human Plague”, and is the Soviet agent who in 1925 executed British intelligence officer Sidney Reilly, arguably the greatest spy in history.2yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
Three CIA employees were arrested in Cuba in 1960 and imprisoned for nearly three years without ever divulging their true identities.2yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
A P-3 Orion reconnaissance plane from the Royal Australian Air Force captured photos of a previously unknown Soviet space plane prototype in March 1983.1yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
American-made Hughes MD500 helicopters were secretly purchased by North Korea in the mid-1980s, in one of the largest illicit arms deals in history1yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
A silent, battery-operated, triple-barreled pistol firing poisoned bullets, created by the Soviet Union’s assassination laboratory in 1953.3yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
KGB sleeper agent Jack Barsky holds his newborn daughter Chelsea in 1987 outside their suburban home in Queens, New York.3yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
KGB Officer Vladimir Putin served in Dresden, East Germany during the collapse of an entire nation.3yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
US Army Private Ethan Melzer attempted to contact al-Qaeda militants to ambush his own unit, hoping that he himself would die in the attack.1yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
US Army Corporal John Roedel Dunn defected to China at the end of the Korean War, and never returned to the United States.2yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
Leo Theremin was a brilliant but doomed inventor who created two of the most revolutionary devices in the history of spycraft at the behest of Josef Stalin.3yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
British Army Captain Robert Nairac was kidnapped, beaten, and executed while working undercover in Northern Ireland during the period known as the Troubles.1yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
22-year-old ROTC cadet Peter Rafael Dzibinski Debbins is photographed wearing a Russian military uniform provided to him by his handlers in the GRU in 1997.1yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
In 2005 the CIA developed an Osama Bin Laden action figure intended to frighten Pakistani children.2yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
A concealable, body-worn direction finder used by German forces to find clandestine radios operating during World War II.3yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
Jennifer Miles, a 26-year-old receptionist at the South African embassy was recruited by Cuban intelligence to act as a honeypot in the late 1960s.2yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
Army Special Forces Soldier David Arturo Baez Cruz defected to Nicaragua to fight alongside the Sandinista forces in 1980.2yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
The body of British codebreaker Gareth Williams was found decomposing inside a locked duffel bag in his apartment in August 2010.2yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
Polish spy Marian Zacharski is escorted across the famed “Bridge of Spies” near Potsdam, East Germany in 1985.2yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
Polish SOE agent Wladyslaw Wazny is held upright by Vichy police in the final moments of his life.3yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
A Norwegian spy is surreptitiously photographed with his KGB handlers in 19833yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
Former US Air Force linguist Reality Leigh Winner was sentenced to more than five years in prison in June 2018 after leaking a classified document to the Intercept news organization.11mo ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
A priest administers last rites to Laurence Duggan after he jumped from the window of his Manhattan office in December 1948.3yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
Nathan Hale, America’s first spy, was caught and hanged on September 22nd, 1776.2yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
American-made Hughes MD500 helicopters were secretly purchased by North Korea in the mid-1980s, in one of the largest illicit arms deals in history1yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Helicopters
Private James Thornwell was interrogated with LSD under a secret US Army program called Operation Third Chance.1yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
A strange box found on a mountainside near Moncton, Canada remained a mystery for 55 years.3yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
19-year-old PFC Edward Minnock Jr. was a signals intelligence specialist credited with saving the city of Tuy Hoa during the Vietnam War.2yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/army
CIA case officer Michael Sellers is filmed at the moment of his arrest by KGB agents in Moscow on March 10th, 1986.3yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
FBI surveillance photos show a US double agent servicing a dead drop site, followed by the husband-and-wife team working for Soviet intelligence who later retrieved the information.2yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
Injured and disoriented workers evacuate the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, Serbia after it was struck by five bombs dropped from a B-2 stealth bomber on May 7th, 1999.2yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
The aftermath of two arms depot explosions in the Czech Republic in 2014 have now been linked to the Russian GRU direct action unit 29155.3yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
Soviet spy Heinz Felfe is photographed at the moment of his exchange at a border checkpoint between West and East Germany in February 1969.2yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
The CIA’s silent Hughes 500P, dubbed The Quiet One, flew into North Vietnam in 1972.3yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Helicopters
CIA pilot Allen Pope grimaces in agony as his broken leg is reset by the Indonesian military.3yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
19-year-old PFC Edward Minnock Jr. was a signals intelligence specialist credited with saving the city of Tuy Hoa during the Vietnam War.2yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
This makeshift dummy was used by CIA turncoat Edward Lee Howard to escape FBI surveillance before he defected to the Soviet Union.3yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
Undercover British MI Soldier who shot it out with the IRA during the Troubles. [810x1126]4yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/MilitaryPorn
Infamous Nazi SS officer Klaus Barbie, known as the Butcher of Lyon, became a US Army intelligence asset after World War II.3yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
Dimitry Droujinsky wears some of the disguise items he used during his thirty years as the FBI’s best fake KGB agent.3yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
An Army counterintelligence officer stands over Hideki Tojo moments after he shot himself in post-war occupied Japan3yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
James Jesus Angleton carries the ashes of Allen Dulles at his funeral in February 1969.2yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
Joachim Neumann and a group of students tunneled under the Berlin Wall to engineer the greatest escape from East Berlin of the entire Cold War.3yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
An assassin known as “the Poison Hand” hunted CIA personnel in Greece in the 1970s and 1980s.3yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
Operation HABRINK was one of the CIA’s most successful operations against the Soviet Union during the Cold War.2yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
Jim Rhyne was one of the greatest pilots America ever produced, and one almost no one has ever heard of.3yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
Disguise kit found in the home of CIA case officer-turned traitor Kevin Mallory in 20173yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
The former Chilean ambassador to the US was killed by Cuban assassins in Washington DC in 1976.3yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
Fidel Castro’s anti-communist Yankee Commandante: William Alexander Morgan3yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
Soviet GRU agent Yevgeniy Barmyanstev is detained by FBIcounterintelligence agents at the end of a successful mission in 1983.3yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
Scores of anti-communist Ukrainian partisans were sent to their deaths after their betrayal by the most damaging Soviet mole inside the British government.2yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
Padre James Carney was a WWII veteran, Jesuit priest, and Marxist revolutionary who met his end in Honduras in 1983.1yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
Ukrainian assassin Bogdan Stashynsky recreates for the cameras the moment he killed his target with a poison gas gun in Munich in 1959.2yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
A Soviet operation targeting two Air Force officers in Berlin was not uncovered for nearly 40 years.3yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
A concealable, body-worn direction finder used by German forces to find clandestine radios operating during World War II.3yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/amateurradio
The East German HVA employed “Romeo” agents to seduce and coopt West German women to spy for them.3yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
The end of the line for three German soldiers who took part in Operation Greif3yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
Classified documents were stolen from a counterintelligence agent by a gang of prostitutes in 19823yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
East German peace activist Vera Lengsfeld pictured with her second husband, mathematician Knud Wollenberger.3yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
The mysterious death of United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold has been laid at the feet of nearly every major power of the era.3yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
The Clandestine Operative's Sidearm of Choice: The High Standard Model HD MS [1430x1524]3yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/GunPorn
The Clandestine Operative's Sidearm of Choice: The High Standard Model HD MS3yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
Josef Masin, Josef Balaban, and Vaclav Moravek were Czech army officers who formed a resistance group after the German occupation of Czechoslovakia during World War II.2yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
A damaged US Navy Lockheed EP-3E Aries II Signals Intelligence aircraft is seen on Hainan Island, China after it collided in mid-air with a Chinese fighter jet in April 2001.2yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
Markus Wolf, the East German spymaster known as the man without a face3yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
A modified Hughes Model 369D helicopter used by the Seaspray special missions unit in 19873yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
Undercover British MI Soldier who shot it out with the IRA during the Troubles.4yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
CIA informant Adolf Tolkachev is arrested by the KGB in June 1985; he had been spying for the CIA since 19794yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
Double agent Frank Mrkva displays the bug he was given by Czech intelligence agents in 19653yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/Spycraft101
A damaged US Navy Lockheed EP-3E Aries II Signals Intelligence aircraft is seen on Hainan Island, China after it collided in mid-air with a Chinese fighter jet in April 2001.2yr ⋅ Spycraft101 ⋅ r/aviation
