Espionage

Nicole Sanders 3rd hour Belle Boyd (1843-1900) Belle Boyd was born in 1844 as the oldest of eight kids. She went to collage when she was twelve and graduated when she was sixteen. Boyd became a spy for the Confederacy before she was eighteen. When she was a spy she was a messenger and a medical transporter in the south. During many of the wars involving Confederate soldiers Boyd nursed the wounded back to health. Betrayed by one of her first loves, she was arrested twice and after finally being

Yesterday night on the 13th of April, Vladimir Petrov came to the attention of the Australian Security intelligence organisation to be a soviet spy. Vladmir and Edvoodka Vladimir Mikhailovich Petrov was born on the 15th of February 1907. His files expose that he was a member of the Soviet Union’s secret services. Sources also indicate that his “intelligence role in Australia included decoding intelligence instructions from Moscow, creating an illegal network of Australian spies, organising

The Effects of Coercion During Interrogations Nicholas Cox Troy University Abstract The interrogation process that police use requires planning, preparation, and skill. In this paper, I will break down each element that makes up the police interrogation process and describe how flawed interrogation tactics can make the interrogation less than completely accurate. “Coercion and duress are similar in that they both create an environment of intimidation during the interrogation process. Coercion is

“I think it’s ridiculous for a citizen of a country that views his government’s duty to protect me, protect all of us from evil, from harm, from terrorists, from foreign powers meaning ill — to classify a body of government that is designed to figure out what might hit us next and prevent it, throwing them into an evil bucket is just thoughtless,” Max Levchin, PayPal’s co-founder told the press regarding the NSA spying scandal1. Pandemonium struck once a man leaked to the world that the NSA was spying

Tia Berardi ENG 1D1 Ms.Oliver Monday April 2nd 2012 Several Characters Can Have Loyalty Not everyone possesses the quality of loyalty, but those that do are worth having a relationship with. The author of Cue for Treason, Geoffry Trease, demonstrates this trait in many of the characters. The most loyal bond in this book, which took place very early on in the novel, was Peter and Kit’s. One of the most significant bonds has to be amongst the Secret Agents, the Queen, and all of England. Lastly

The Truth About Washington’s Spies Madeline Carlson America’s first spy ring, better known as the Cupler ring, was Washington’s carefully thought out solution to gain intelligence on the overpowering British troops. The revolution was happening; there was no turning back and no denying that America was going to gain independence from Great Britain. Washington needed a plan, a way to foresee what the British planned to do next. Washington’s only solution was to resort to spying. Washington

The United States today is becoming more and more dependant upon technological developments to gather intelligence. The “secret agents” of yesterday are very close to being obsolete. With technology becoming the prime source of intelligence gathering, there is an assumption that other countries are gathering intelligence in similar ways. The only way to combat intelligence gathering against the United States is to know what technological intelligence collection resources are being used for gathering

Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent is a before-its-time political masterpiece in the form of fictional literature that grips the minds of an audience who may or may not have ever thought to question the majority existence. After the occurrences of the terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001, scholars, educators, and the general public, in a desperate attempt to justify what was happening in the United States, took notice of an otherwise buried great work. The terrorist theme in The Secret Agent is

The Culper Ring was a spy ring created by American Major Benjamin Tallmadge under command from General George Washington in 1778 during British occupation of New York City at the peak of the American Revolutionary War. The "Culper" name was given by Washington who created it from Culpeper County, Virginia. The two main people in the Ring, Abraham Woodhull and Robert Townsend, used "Samuel Culper, Sr." and "Samuel Culper, Jr.", as code names. Tallmadge was in direct control of the Ring but Washington

-The name of the film “The Good Shepherd” is taken from the Bible. According to the Bible Jesus says the good shepherd is the one that leaves ninety nine sheep’s, goes to find one lost sheep and brings her home. Therefore, he means that there “will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent”. It can be argued that it is metaphor for what Edward does in his life, because what he does is full of sin such as detention, killing