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New Coco Chanel Biography Levels Ex...

A work on the life of French fashionista and style icon Coco Chanel, which marked its American debut earlier this month, countenances unequivocally the long held suspicion that Chanel was a Nazi collaborator and spy, while providing very specific claims of its own. Hal Vaughan, an American journalist living in Paris, wrote “Sleeping With The Enemy: …

Cold War Spy Photos Focus Of Berlin...

East German Spy Agency Reveals Photos
A photography display currently on view at Morgen Contemporary in Berlin deals exclusively with espionage related pictures of Stasi lineage and certainly recalls the Cold War era of the much feared East German intelligence agency. Simon Menner is the German artist who assembled ‘Pictures from the Secret Stasi Archives,’ including …

Taiwanese Amateur Spies Compensated...

By Daria Carmon

A common practice of the Taiwanese government during the 1980s and 1990s was the recruitment of businessmen to spy on China, so selected primarily because only business transactions conducted in China then would afford access to the mainland. These businessmen were enticed by the financial incentives offered by their government and swayed by …