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    The 39 Steps

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    play that I saw from the School of Arts and Sciences at Ohio University. It was adapted from the novel written by John Buchan and the 1935 film by Hitchcock. The story is about an English man named Richard Hannay, who is plunged into international espionage after meeting a beautiful Russian woman spy in a theatre. After she tells her secrets and mentions the 39 steps to Hannay, she gets injured and finally dies in his house. He is charged with the crime of murder, so he runs away but at the same time

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    The Secret Agent

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    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

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    movies like "Mission Impossible", "007", and many more. The way that people look at spies are from what they see from those movies, the spies being brave, confident, and always wins in the end. In contrast, the reality is that spies "commit acts of espionage and subterfuge which were often lonely, frightening and very dangerous." Spies were used during World War Two to gain information from the enemy and change the balance in favor of the alliance forces. Female spies in specific were found to be valuable

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    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

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    characters, he said that prison was a small price to pay in exchange for improving the lives of one billion Chinese. He believed his native country greatly benefited from closer relations with the United States. Chin’s only motivation for committing espionage was to better U.S. and Chinese relations. At the tail end of the trail, Chin was facing two life terms in prison and fines estimated at $3.3 million at his sentencing. Chin’s sentencing was scheduled for March 17, 1986, however, on 21 February

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    Anna Chapman Research Paper

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    Anna Chapman is a Russian who also held a British citizenship as a result of her marriage to Alex Chapman. She is the daughter of a former Soviet diplomat who was based in Nairobi, Kenya and is one of the top officials in the Russian ministry of foreign affairs. According to reports, Anna’s father was once a top official at the KGB. Reports indicate that Anna Chapman studied at the Moscow University and earned her degree in Masters in Economics and passed with a first class honors. Other sources

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    Good Shepherd Meaning

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    -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

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    Case of the Civil War Spy: Mary Elizabeth Bowser During the Civil War, the Union and the Confederacy developed spies networks to help each side gain victory. Many of these spies were women and African Americans. An African American woman, Mary Elizabeth Bowser is one of the most celebrated spy with the least amount of historical data. Although Bowser isn’t recognized as much as other Civil War spies, she has been celebrated by journalists, historians and the Central Intelligence Agency. Bowser

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    Papers On Jay Martin

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    Investigations (FBI) painted another picture in our mind regarding this phrase. The in-depth investigation of Bryan Minkyu Martin revealed the real reasons why he betrayed the country for his own benefit. This is a classic example to prove cyber espionage cases can be alarming to our nation’s national security. Bryan Minkyu Martin was born in Seoul, Korea in 1988. Peter and Barbara Martin, a psychologist and an intelligence specialist, adopted Martin at the age of two. His parents raised him in

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    believe. They are a part of modern societies since many decades now. Secret agencies are constantly looking after one another. Many spies will get caught in their spy life. One of them is George Blake. The next paragraphs will discuss George Blake espionage case. First of all, George Blake is born with the name George Behar in 1922 in Rotterdam Netherlands (“George,” par. 1). His father was Spanish Jew from the Middle East and his mother was a Dutch (“Interview with George Blake,” par. 1). When World

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