@spiesvespers.bsky.social
OTD Feb 4 1777#GeorgeWashington penned historic letter to Nathaniel Sackett creating first spy network. Offers to pay $50 per month plus $500.
04.02.2025 10:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0OTD Feb 4 1940 (disputed) #William_Sebold returns to US from Germany under name William Sawyer. Hero in bringing down #Duquesne_Spy_Ring.
04.02.2025 10:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0OTD Feb 4, 1938 – Hitler assumes command of all armed forces in Germany. In retrospect, a bad idea.
04.02.2025 10:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0OTD Feb 4, 1902 #Charles_Lindbergh born. Famed flyer crashes reputation with #America_First Nazi-funded nonsense.
04.02.2025 10:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0OTD Feb 4, 1991 #FBI agent #Richard_Miller sentenced to 20 years for selling secrets to Russians.
04.02.2025 10:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0OTD Feb 4, 1940 #Nikolai_Yezhov, former head of #NKVD dies. Victim of brutal office politics and executioner's bullet
04.02.2025 10:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0OTD Feb 4, 1906 #Dietrich_Bonhoeffer born. Pastor and theologian who showed remarkable heroism as dissident in Nazi Germany.
04.02.2025 10:39 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0OTD Jan 28 1912 Jackson Pollock born. The abstract expressionist artist’s paintings were widely exhibited in exhibitions funded by the CIA.
28.01.2025 12:03 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0OTD Jan 28, 1981 William Casey appointed DCI. "You know the best thing about Washington? It’s only an hour to New York.” -- #William_Casey
28.01.2025 12:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0OTD Jan 28, 1980 six U.S. diplomats who avoided being taken hostage at their embassy in Tehran escaped out of Iran using false Canadian passports, thanks to the Canadian government. #Argo #Canadian_Caper
28.01.2025 12:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0OTD Jan 28, 1988 #Atomic_Spy #Klaus_Fuchs died.
28.01.2025 12:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0OTD Jan 28,1819 Brit officer #Thomas_Raffles begins operations to relieve Singapore from Dutch. Celebrates success with fancy-pants cocktail
28.01.2025 12:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0OTD Jan 28, 2004 #Lloyd_Bucher died. Best known as the captain of the #USS_Pueblo (AGER-2) captured by North Korea.
28.01.2025 12:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0OTD Jan 28,1909 Legendary Brit #frogman #Lionel_Crabb born. Vanished in 1956 on recon mission of Soviet ship Ordzhonikidze docked at Portsmouth
28.01.2025 12:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0OTD jan 25, 1950 #Alger_Hiss sentenced to 5 yrs in prison on perjury charges. Yes, he was a #Soviet_spy. I will not discuss or debate.
25.01.2025 10:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0OTD Jan 25, 1949 trial of #Mildred_Gillars aka #Axis_Sally begins. Failed #model_actress, and really vicious #Nazi_propagandist.
25.01.2025 10:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0OTD Jan 25, 1861 President Lincoln selects #African_American #Ferdinand_Schavers as bodyguard.
25.01.2025 10:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0OTD Jan 25, 1957 #Soviet_spies Jack and Myra Soble arrested by #FBI. Ran MOCASE spy ring.
25.01.2025 10:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0OTD Jan 25,1874 #Somerset_Maugham born. Spied for Brits during #WWI & wrote stuff, including spy classic #Ashenden, which you should read
25.01.2025 10:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0OTD Jan 24, 2003 United States Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation.
24.01.2025 16:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0OTD Jan 24, 1924 Howard Hughes inherits controlling shares in Hughes Tool Company. Worked on multiple intelligence projects, including operation #XF_11 #spy_plane that crashed into #Beverly_Hills. And Glomar Explorer, which helped raise portions of Soviet sub.
24.01.2025 16:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0#OTD 24 January 1918: Arthur Scherbius received a patent for a cipher machine, now known as the ENIGMA.
24.01.2025 16:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0OTD Jan 24, 1964 #Military_Assistance_Command_Vietnam – #Studies_and_Observations_Group launched.
24.01.2025 16:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0OTD Jan 24, 1946 Pres #Truman hosts informal lunch to mark creation of #CIG, predecessor to #CIA. Distributes toy cloaks and daggers.
24.01.2025 16:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0OTD Jan 24, 1985 (approx) 1st of still classified MAGNUM #spy_satellites supposedly launched by #CIA and #NRO.
24.01.2025 16:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0OTD Jan 24, 1950 #Atomic_Spy #Klaus_Fuchs confesses espionage to #MI5's master interrogator #Jim_Skardon.
24.01.2025 16:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0OTD Jan 24, 1978 Pres #Jimmy_Carter signs Executive Order 12036 intended to reform intel community. More oversight, no assassinations.
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