This post is about espionage during the American Revolution.   It is also about the bad guys, for one particular spy against the American Patriots provided his Royal employers with hundreds of

Imagine you are the Empress of Russia. Living in the eighteenth century, when being the Empress meant something.  Not a bad job, huh? One day, a delightful French teenage girl comes to visit

Have you ever heard of HUMINT? HUMINT is the acronym for Human Intelligence. Yes, this term is a contradiction in terms. But because bureaucrats ignore that obvious absurdity, we shall as well.

Once upon a time there was a guy named John Honeyman. Yes, it is a cute name and, no, I didn’t make it up. You can’t make this stuff up. Well, you

SIGINT is the acronym for Signals Intelligence. Military units, before the invention of radio, used to communicate with each other by waving signal flags. One advantage of this method was exercise. One

> In the glorious annals of our Great Republic, who was our first great spymaster? The answer:  George Washington. It’s true. During the American Revolution, our great Continental Army had a very

After the death of Julius Caesar in 44 B.C., the Roman Empire, which for centuries was ruled as a Republic, thereafter was ruled by emperors. By then the Roman Senate had lost