James Armistead: The Most Famous Spy

Over the course of history various individuals have committed crimes, varying in severity and notoriety. Crimes are not able to go unpunished, and the punishment determined by the court is that which the convicted must serve. As people are caught and placed in custody, in America, the individual or individuals must be held accountable for their actions. For instance, Aldrich Ames was tried and convicted of espionage and sentenced to life in prison without parole.

In the early years of the Revolutionary War, General Washington started using what would become the forerunner of today’s counterintelligence and counterespionage fields by utilizing undercover agents, spy rings, and discreet reporting methods, much of which was focused

The book, The Cuckoo’s Egg: Tracking a Spy through the Maze of Computer Espionage is a 1990 novel written by Clifford Stoll. Published by arrangement with Doubleday, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc, the main idea of the book is a first-person account of the hunt for a computer cracker who broke into a computer at the Lawrence Berkley National Library. Winding up on the front page of The New York Times, the astronomer trained and accidental computer expert, Cliff Stoll became an unexpected American hero. After catching his spy in 1989, Stoll been giving talks for the FBI, CIA, and NASA, as well as speaking to the US Senate and the World Economic Forum. Stoll is now making Klein Bottles for mathematics and rebuilds

He was a double agent and I figured that it would be harder to hide that than being just a spy. It turns out that I was wrong and it was actually easier for Armistead to keep it a secret that he was a spying on the British. In class we are learning about the last battle of the American Revolution, the Battle of Yorktown. Armistead played a major role in this battle, but never received the recognition that he deserved. I wanted to pick a topic on slaves because I knew that slaves would get little to no recognition back then and I wanted to give them the honor they deserved and inform other people on who James Armistead was. Going with this idea, I decided to do my project on James Armistead Lafayette. I wanted to discover why he was important to the American Revolution and how what he did was

Voice 2: Nathan Hale volunteered to be the first spy, and on September 12, 1776, the Americans sent him behind enemy lines. He was to gather intelligence before the Battle of Harlem Heights took place.

The American Revolution saw the rise of the American spy, and the father of these spies was George Washington, commander in Chief of the Continental Army. The siege of New York demonstrated the importance and dire need for an intelligence to General Washington. Unfortunately, the difficulty, at least initially, lay with finding people willing and able to serve in this manner.

Lydia Darragh - Lydia acted as a spy when she overheard some British officers discuss a pending attack on the Continental Army. She got a message to an American soldier and George Washington was ready for the British when they arrived.

William Eaton, born February 23, 1764 ran away from home when he was 15 to join the Revolutionary war where he mostly waited on officers’ tables. After the war, Eaton enrolled in Dartmouth College. After many financial setbacks, he finally graduated with a degree of Bachelor of Arts in August 1790. He became a captain in the U.S. army. In the Indian wars he was first sent to serve under General Antony Wayne, who Eaton greatly admired. Eaton modeled his style of command after Wayne’s: Eaton’s second mission found him serving under Gaither, _________ with the Secretary of the State, William Pickering by naming a fort after him. Eaton then served as a spy for Pickering. Eaton reported that Gaither’s was _______ shady land deals. Gaither had him

Now you may be wondering about who these spies were, well one successful spy was Mary Bowser. There is not a lot of records on Mary, not even her actual birthday. However Mary was a Union spy and known as the best civil war spy. She had her own spy network and got a job as a servant in the confederate white house. She would clean the desk of Davis and was always had one eye our for information. She would use the same bakery man that Miss Van Lewis would use to transfer information. After the civil war Mary became a teacher for the free slaves and all of her records were disposed so she doesn't get

It’s hard to pinpoint which events, what people, and how exactly they influenced Military Intelligence to be what it is today, but for America there is little doubt that CPT Nathan Hale had an impact. CPT Nathan Hale was one of the first spies during the Revolutionary War. He went behind enemy lines to provide intelligence directly to George Washington. It ultimately cost him his life, rumor has it he was sold out by a family member. However this helped shaped how intelligence was conducted relating to spies.

The spy network laid the groundwork for some of the tactics used. Allan Pinkerton would only work for George B. McClellan and would go on various scouting missions for information. Pinkerton made an agency for spies and recruited Pryce Lewis. In 1861, Lewis was chosen to go scout enemy troops in West Virginia and did so with great accuracy. McClellan ordered Lewis to go to General Cox and give him the information. “Cox wasted no time in exploiting the new intelligence. ... Surprised, the Confederates fled south, abandoning Charleston to its fate” The information that Lewis had gotten to Cox proved vital in the strategy that he used.

Spies meant a lot to our country and to the British colony.”Bakeless. Spies of the revolution. Place of publication not identified: Harpercollins, 1962. Print”. There is many spies who were caught but some lived to tell their story. No one really knows why someone would risk their life for really nothing in return. But we are glad they did. Now that the spies made history back in the early days of war, spies still exist. They are usually rare because we have so much better technology. Like drones, many bots, etc. Invisible letters are not used in today’s society nor are mask letters. Most likely because of the modern society’s knowledge and they are more cautious than the old days. We would like to

Washington desperately needed to gain intelligence of General William Howe’s next plan of attack, however there were few who wanted to risk partaking in such a dishonorable task as spying. Hale was the first, and most well known, of the many spies to scout

A little after a year of joining the Continental Army, commander George Washington came to realize that he needed to find out where the British were planning to go so his forces can stop them. At that moment he called upon Lt.Col. Thomas Knowlton to recruit some members of his rank to act as spies. However, Knowlton did not want to do this, as he told Washington: “I’m willing to fight the British and, if need be, die a soldier’s death in battle, but as for going among them in disguise and being taken and hung up like a dog, I’ll not do it.” This is where Nathan Hale stepped in. He disguised himself as a Dutch schoolteacher and soon crossed enemy lines in an attempt to find out vital information about the British army for the Continental forces. Every soldier knew, including Nathan Hale, the dangers of spying as they were considered to be illegal and if they were caught they could be subject to execution. This is precisely why Knowlton did not let his ranks partake in this activity. He knew the risks and how dangerous it was. However, despite Nathan Hale having knowledge of the risks involved, he put them all aside as he cared about the

Nathan Hale, the first american spy to volunteer to go over enemy lines and gather much needed information for the Americans. Another spy was James Armistead, he was a black slave who went to the British side and pretend to be a runaway slave loyal to the king. Lieutenant Lewis Costigan was another one of our valuable spies. Lewis collected this information while still in his continental army uniform, Costigan was caught, but since he was wearing his uniform he was classified as a soldier not a spy. Their for keeping the secret of American spies