Espionage Collection

WW1 - German Espionage - in disguise as a woman
WW1 - The Little German Maid - German Espionage - a German soldier prepares to get into disguise as a woman in order to infiltrate an approaching band of allied cavalry troops. Date: 1915

George Blake
MI6 agent George Blake pictured with his mother on his return to Britain after internment in North Korea during the Korean War

Cartoon, They have ears! WW1
Cartoon, They have ears! Three fashionable French women are afraid that two Dachshunds might be German spies. Date: 1916

Secret Service Santa
Cartoon showing how even Father Christmas has a role to play in the war effort. Date: 1940

Spitting Image puppet of Margaret Thatcher
A puppet of Margaret Thatcher, British Conservative Prime Minister, used on the satirical TV programme, Spitting Image. The book is Spycatcher by Peter Wright

Donald Maclean, English diplomat and KGB spy
Donald Duart Maclean (1913-1983), the former English Foreign Office diplomat and member of the Cambridge Spies, who spied for the KGB during the Second World War and beyond

Portrait of Mata Hari at the height of her fame Date: 1929

Leslie Thornton in the dock at a trial in Moscow, USSR
Leslie Thornton in the dock, at a trial in Moscow of employees of the Metropolitan Vickers Company, April 1933. They were charged with sabotage, espionage

The Secret Office at the General Post Office, 1844
The Secret Office, at the General Post Office in London, 1844. Letters were opened and re-sealed in the Secret Office under the authority of the Secretary of State for the Home Department. 1844

Cartoon, Two German spies. Two fat men at a table laden with food agree that its worth being spies and risking their lives, when they can eat so well. 1916

TSARINA PHOTOGRAPHING
When she and the Tsar are invited to attend the French manoeuvres, Alexandra whips out her camera to photograph the new French field-gun - high-level espionage indeed ! Date: 1901

WW1 - French arrest a decrepit old woman (a German spy)
WW1 - The Germans gave the old woman a new white blanket and bribed her to walk behind any French battery that might take up a position near a certain village on the Aisne

Tessina spy camera
Close-up of the Tessina camera, small enough for spying activities and other undercover work. Date: 1970s

Operation Gold. Reconstruction of the tunnel built by American intelligence and British between 1954 and 1955 to link the west and east side of the city

Sir Francis Walsingham, English statesman, Principal Secretary to Queen Elizabeth I, popularly referred to as her Spymaster. 1532 - 1590

Cartoon, The false shepherd, WW1
Cartoon, The false shepherd, showing a man posing as a shepherd, with a sheepdog and a flock of sheep, making notes on local aircraft activities. Date: 1915

Cartoon, Espionage? Snooping? WW1
Cartoon, Espionage? Snooping? A German couple and their daughter go for an innocent country walk, but gradually metamorphose into a concrete platform, a camera and a telephone! Date: 1915

Cartoon, German women gossipping, WW1
Cartoon, German women gossipping about a diner in a restaurant -- He must be a horrible French spy! Hes eating his veal without jam! Date: 1915

John Le Carre (David Cornwell)
John le Carr (pseudonym of David John Moore Cornwell, b 1931), English author of spy novels, many of which have been adapted for television and film. He worked for MI5 and MI6 in the 1950s and 1960s

Ken Achurch with spying equipment -- a fly bug in a glass tube, and a reel-to-reel tape recorder. Date: 1970s

Nipple radio transmitter for use in spying. Date: 1970s

Model fly for use in spying
Model fly invented by Ken Achurch for use in spying and other undercover activities. Date: 1970s

Germany. Berlin. Museum of Stasi
Germany. Berlin. Museum Stasi. Old Ministry of State Security or The Stasi. Awards and emblems of the GDR

Pere Coret expedient
War of Spanish Independence (1808-1815). Expedient of Pere Coret accused of being double spy.A?a?A?a?1813

Expedient to Pere Coret
War of Spanish Independence (1808-1815). Expedient of Pere Coret accused of being double spy. Signed in Vilanova i la Geltr?? by clergyman governor Pedro Jos? Avella, 1813

Alfred Dreyfus
ALFRED DREYFUS French soldier, wrongfully accused of espionage and condemned to Devils Island; eventually exonerated after a series of sensational trials. Date: 1859 - 1935

Cartoon, A shady deal, WW1
Cartoon, a German suggests a shady deal involving the import of German goods to France, perhaps for the purposes of spying. Date: 1916

Cartoon, Dreams of the future, WW1
Cartoon, Dreams of the future. A German shopkeeper chats to some little boys what they will do after the war. Fritz will open a shop from which he will sell German products

Cartoon, A dry telegram, WW1
Cartoon, A dry telegram, showing a chef (a spy) writing to his boss, that after eight days the boxes of rubbish have contained nothing of diplomatic interest. Date: 1915

Training Carrier Birds by Heath Robinson
In this Heath Robinson cartoon, German spies train a scrawny carrier pigeon to cross the North Sea. Date: 1915

Jeremy Hutchinson, Q. C. (1915 - )
Jeremy Hutchinson, Q.C. who defended George Blake on five charges under the Official Secrets Act in 1961. Blake was convicted and sentenced to 42 years imprisonment

Catching a German spy
A German spy is caught in the act while signalling by lamp at night from a French house. A British Provost-Marshal, in charge of military police in a French town

General Picquart - Satire - Dreyfus Affair
Marie-Georges Picquart disguises himself by strapping on a tight corset. This cartoon is a sature on Picquarts position as head of the counter-espionnage bureau during the Dreyfus Affair

Prevent revealing sensitive information to the enemy spies
A poster design from WW2, warning against idle talk to strangers, even if they are exceptionally attractive! circa 1940

David Cornwell - John le Carre
British spy novelist, David Cornwell (1931-), better known by his pen name, John Le Carre

Carr, Royal Love
ROYAL LOVE (Kathryn Carr) Looks like shes got the young man drunk in order to steal the secret papers she knows hes carrying - but oh dear, heres a man with a gun !

German Espionage 1914
German espionage

Reading Invisible Ink
Invisible ink may be detected by chemicals or heat

Sir Francis Walsingham, Secretary to Queen Elizabeth I
Sir Francis Walsingham, English statesman, Principal Secretary to Queen Elizabeth I, popularly referred to as her Spymaster

Benedict Arnold and Major Andre
Benedict Arnold persuades Major Andre to conceal papers in his boot, causing him to be hanged as a spy when captured by the patriots

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