by Aseem Gupta | Nov 29, 2017 | Biography, Lives & Historical Figures
Reading Time: 23 MinutesOn November 29, 1987, Korean Air Flight 858 disappeared over the Andaman Sea while flying from Baghdad to Seoul. The Boeing 707 was carrying 104 passengers and 11 crew members when an explosive device detonated inside the aircraft. All 115...
by Aseem Gupta | Jun 15, 2017 | Biography, Lives & Historical Figures
Reading Time: 26 MinutesKrystyna Skarbek was one of Britain’s most remarkable secret agents during World War II. Born into Polish aristocracy, she became a pioneering female intelligence operative who crossed Nazi-occupied borders, smuggled military secrets,...
by Aseem Gupta | May 18, 2017 | Biography, Lives & Historical Figures
Reading Time: 35 MinutesIn January 1965, Syrian security officers entered an apartment in Damascus and uncovered one of the most extraordinary espionage operations in the history of the Middle East. The apartment belonged to Kamal Amin Thaabet, a wealthy Syrian...
by Aseem Gupta | Feb 14, 2017 | Biography, Lives & Historical Figures
Reading Time: 20 MinutesIn June 1949, an American intelligence officer produced a report describing one of South Korea’s most secretive political figures. The man was Yeom Dong-jin, a partially blind former independence activist who commanded a clandestine...
by Aseem Gupta | Feb 8, 2017 | Biography, Lives & Historical Figures
Reading Time: 18 MinutesIn October 1941, a German military aircraft flew over British-controlled Palestine and dropped a parachutist near the port city of Haifa. The man carried instructions to gather intelligence about British military installations and report his...
by Aseem Gupta | Jan 8, 2017 | Biography, Lives & Historical Figures
Reading Time: 19 MinutesFor more than a decade, an American Army sergeant working in West Germany secretly supplied Eastern Bloc intelligence services with some of NATO’s most sensitive military information. The documents included plans for defending Western...
