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“A prolific instigator” Lady Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton’s FBI file
Lady Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton’s extensive FBI file reveals the philanthropist and socialite’s failed efforts to connect with J. Edgar Hoover.
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Was Isaac Asimov secretly “ROBPROF,” a Soviet spy within the highest ranks of academia?
By September 14th, 1960, Isaac Asimov had been a professor of biochemistry Boston University for 11 years, and his acclaimed “I, Robot” collection of short stories was on its seventh reprint. This was also the day someone not-so-subtly accused him of communist sympathies in a letter to J. Edgar Hoover.
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How the FBI’s inability to keep its watchlist straight made one federal employee’s life a McCarthyist nightmare
One Irving Adler was a a serviceman and federal employee. The other Irving Adler was a renowned activist and author. The FBI had trouble telling the difference.
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How a husband and wife team of ex-spies outwitted the FBI and pulled off the most daring escape in Cold War history
On August 9th, 1990, two U.S. Embassy employees trying to enjoy a beer at the Mezhdunarodnaya Hotel in Moscow were interrupted by a stranger, who ended up sharing a bottle of wine. The embassy workers would later learn they had come face-to-face with one of the FBI’s most wanted: Edward Lee Howard, an ex-CIA officer trained in counter-surveillance who only a few years earlier had outwitted the Bureau to escape the county.