Spies through history

Intelligence veteran Mark Lowenthal reveals how after a shift to counter-terrorism from the 1990s, spycraft is returning to its Cold War operations

Private investigators Emma Coles and Sam Hutchinson on surveillance, secret cameras, solving cases – and still being home in time for the school run

Farmers in Nazi-occupied Western Europe woke up to something strange in their fields in the spring of 1941. A metal canister fixed to a three-and-a-half-foot parachute had fallen from the skies. An at

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“Spirit of Stalin, come and talk to me.” If you want to communicate through a medium with the Soviet Union’s feared dictator, Joseph Stalin, you can find a site on the internet via Russian Google. The

Every wondered what it would take to be a reallife James Bond? Dominic Bliss looks at the skills you’d need to be the world’s most famous literary spy – and how to get them