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1 Who played Ed Pierce the movie Espionage?

2 Who played Ilsa the movie Espionage?

3 What role did Tom Stern play in the movie Espionage?

4 Who played Bill Martin the movie Espionage?

5 Who played Minister the movie Espionage?

6 Who played Ted Newcombe the movie Espionage?

7 Who played Reporter the movie Espionage?

8 Who played Robert Costello the movie Espionage?

9 What role did Maureen Connell play in the movie Espionage?

10 What role did Ron Randell play in the movie Espionage?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • during World War II Robert Furman served as director of intelligence and espionage for the American atomic bomb project?
  • the 2008 film Fifty Dead Men Walking is based on an autobiography by British secret agent Marty McGartland, who was later shot six times in an assassination attempt by the IRA?
  • before John Parker became Archbishop of Tuam and of Dublin, he had been imprisoned by Oliver Cromwell's forces as a suspected Royalist spy?
  • a traffic accident in New York City's Times Square eventually led to the downfall of the Joe K spy ring, headed by Kurt Frederick Ludwig?
  • American painter Leon Dabo was a spy in World War I?
  • British author Bernard Newman, an authority on spies, gave more than 2,000 lectures throughout Europe during the Interbellum?
  • the England amateur footballer, Leonard Dawe, became a crossword compiler for The Daily Telegraph newspaper and in 1944 was interrogated on suspicion of espionage in the run-up to the D-Day landings?
  • the spy Aldrich Ames handed over U.S. secrets to the Soviets at the Brickskeller saloon near Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C.?
  • the designer of the Okryu Restaurant in Pyongyang, North Korea, would later spend 38 years in a South Korean prison for spying?
  • the well-publicized defection of German agent Erich Vermehren in early 1944 led directly to the demise of the Abwehr?
  • the author of the book on Scientology, The Road to Total Freedom, was investigated by an undercover agent for the Church of Scientology?
  • the arrest of fascist sympathizer and spy Anna Wolkoff was witnessed by a young boy named Len Deighton?
  • the Trow Ghyll skeleton, found near Clapham in the West Riding of Yorkshire in August 1947, was claimed to have been the decomposed remains of a German spy who died during the war?
  • The Janus Man, a thriller concerning espionage and betrayal, is the fourth book in the "Tweed and Co." series, for which Colin Forbes published a book every year from 1982 to his death in 2006?
  • Yolande Harmer, who was one of the most prominent Israeli spies in Egypt in 1948 is thought of as "Israel's Mata Hari"?
  • Mayanist scholar and archaeologist Sylvanus Griswold Morley was also an American secret agent in World War I?
  • Renaissance composer, instrumentalist and copyist Pierre Alamire was also a spy for Henry VIII, until he was revealed as a double agent?
  • Harry Thomas Thompson, a former yeoman of the United States Navy, was the first American to be convicted of espionage since World War I?
  • French Champagne merchant Charles Heidsieck was imprisoned for espionage during the American Civil War, sparking an international incident?
  • Czechoslovak General Heliodor Píka was accused of espionage and high treason on the basis of an "appalling" and "unimaginably inefficient bit of forgery"?
  • Russian historian and scientist Vladimir N. Beneshevich was arrested on charges of spying for Germany and executed because one of his books was translated into German in 1937?
  • Russian native Emilio Kosterlitzky, known as the Mexican Cossack, spoke nine languages, jumped ship in Venezuela, fled to Mexico where he fought in the Apache Wars and in the Mexican Revolution, and eventually became an undercover operative for the U.S. government during World War I?
  • Robert Meeropol, son of Communists Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, was adopted by "Strange Fruit" lyricist Abel Meeropol following the Rosenbergs' execution for espionage?
  • Vladimir Sukhomlinov, who was the Russian Minister of War at the outbreak of WWI, was relieved of duty amid accusations of espionage on behalf of Germany?
  • Patrick Heenan, a Captain in the British Indian Army, was convicted of treason after spying for the Empire of Japan during the Malayan campaign of World War II?
  • Marthe Richard was a former prostitute and spy who worked to make brothels illegal in France?
  • John Honeyman was a spy who worked for George Washington and who provided intelligence crucial to the success of Washington's foray against the Hessian troops at Trenton, New Jersey on December 26, 1776?
  • Chinese-Australian businessman Stern Hu, accused by Chinese officials of espionage, is said to have "caused huge loss to China's economic interest and security" by the Chinese Foreign Ministry?
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