# ![@SpiesVespers Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::723281697253527552.png) @SpiesVespers SPIES&VESPERS

SPIES&VESPERS posts on X about in the, france, money, murder the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-----] engagements in the last [--] hours.

### Engagements: [-----] [#](/creator/twitter::723281697253527552/interactions)
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### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::723281697253527552/posts_active)
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### Followers: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::723281697253527552/followers)
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### CreatorRank: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::723281697253527552/influencer_rank)
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### Social Influence

**Social category influence**
[countries](/list/countries)  8.16% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  6.63% [finance](/list/finance)  5.1% [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  3.06% [luxury brands](/list/luxury-brands)  3.06% [stocks](/list/stocks)  1.53% [fashion brands](/list/fashion-brands)  1.53% [musicians](/list/musicians)  1.02% [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands)  1.02% [nfl](/list/nfl)  1.02%

**Social topic influence**
[in the](/topic/in-the) 5.1%, [france](/topic/france) 2.55%, [money](/topic/money) 2.55%, [murder](/topic/murder) 2.04%, [food](/topic/food) 2.04%, [nyc](/topic/nyc) 2.04%, [germany](/topic/germany) 2.04%, [wall street](/topic/wall-street) 2.04%, [kodak](/topic/kodak) 1.53%, [football](/topic/football) 1.53%

**Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by**
[@blackmortadella](/creator/undefined) [@historyboomer](/creator/undefined) [@roughtradex](/creator/undefined) [@adrianmckinty](/creator/undefined) [@texaslulu](/creator/undefined) [@ericowensdc](/creator/undefined) [@citynightcap](/creator/undefined) [@dcboyisangry](/creator/undefined) [@kristinefroeba](/creator/undefined) [@debramessing](/creator/undefined) [@grok](/creator/undefined) [@stevethephotog](/creator/undefined) [@hairygit](/creator/undefined) [@timmckane](/creator/undefined) [@highsierraman](/creator/undefined) [@themonologist](/creator/undefined) [@sarahmpottratz](/creator/undefined) [@davidst82967657](/creator/undefined) [@yaronzango](/creator/undefined) [@osssociety](/creator/undefined)

**Top assets mentioned**
[April (APRIL)](/topic/april) [Kroger Co (KR)](/topic/kroger)
### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"@DavidSt82967657 @yaron__zango Different Jimmy Walker. One of NYC's most colorful Mayors he finally married his longtime mistress the former Ziegfeld's Follies showgirl Betty Compton. Had his own Prohibition drinking nook in the basement of [--] Club"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2015763512992137370)  2026-01-26T12:27Z 21.5K followers, [--] engagements


"OTD Jan [--] [----] #Leon_Trotsky expelled from #USSR eventually settles down in Mexico. Stalin remains concerned broods. Fun Fact: For brief periods of time Leon Trotskylived in the Bronx and Ho Chi Minh in Brooklyn. Classic NYC rivalry"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2017588777682628897)  2026-01-31T13:20Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"OTD Jan [--] [----] #George_Koval died. The #Atomic_Spy who got away. Settled in USSR. Posthumously honored by Putin & Co. Fun Fact: Following fall of the Soviet Union spy Koval approached the US embassy in an attempt to collect social security benefits. His application was denied"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2017589300683051083)  2026-01-31T13:22Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"@Kristine_Froeba @_debramessing Famous picture of Tom Hanks riding the subway and taking up two seats like a movie star"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2017629830385193380)  2026-01-31T16:03Z 21.5K followers, [----] engagements


"My new favorite disinfo video. Life would become a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert. Festival seating Free Bird"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2018018207928377512)  2026-02-01T17:46Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"OTD Feb [--] [----] #Vincent_Astor died. Amateur spy made holdings including #St_Regis available to #OSS and Brit spies during #WWII"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2018633115552375241)  2026-02-03T10:30Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"OTD Feb [-----] #Pavel_Fitin codename VIKTOR promoted to head First Directorate Soviet foreign intelligence. His boss is kind of a pain"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2018633435611586649)  2026-02-03T10:31Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"OTD Feb [--] [----] #FBI agent #Richard_Miller sentenced to [--] years for selling secrets to Russians"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2019108252135617026)  2026-02-04T17:58Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"I don't know who needs to hear this but the tracking and delivery interface between Royal Mail and USPS is flawless. Hooray Something works perfectly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2019488095326838800)  2026-02-05T19:07Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"OTD Feb [--] [----] #Eva_Braun born. Married badly late in life"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2019724084284960812)  2026-02-06T10:45Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"An attempted murder"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2019853169657016695)  2026-02-06T19:18Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"OTD Feb [--] [----] #David_Kahn born. Wrote best book ever on cryptography. No joke it is an amazing book. Happy b'day Mr. Kahn"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2020081079844290795)  2026-02-07T10:23Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"OTD Feb [-----] #Richard_Bissell died. Legendary #CIA officer key in #U2 project. Fun Fact: #Richard_Bissell grew up in #Mark_Twain_House Hartford CT"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2020081254448992511)  2026-02-07T10:24Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"@osssociety The camera George C. Scott takes away from Ambassador de Sadesky looks very much like the matchbox camera Kodak created for the OSS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2020200492442275963)  2026-02-07T18:18Z 21.5K followers, [--] engagements


"ITS TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS FOOTBALL Joseph Anthony Savoldi Jr. played football for Notre Dame until a secret marriage was revealed. He later joined the OSS and finished his career as a pro-wrestler under the name Jumpin Joe Salvoldi"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2020217237978620050)  2026-02-07T19:24Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"ITS TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS FOOTBALL OSS chief Major General William Donovan was said to have earned his nickname Wild Bill while playing for Columbia University Lions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2020217741265768638)  2026-02-07T19:26Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"@LaurenDownSouth It's part of the idiocy has no consequences philosophy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2020237494978216157)  2026-02-07T20:45Z 21.5K followers, [--] engagements


"@CDonnick1 @grok is this photo AI generated"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2020247473508548910)  2026-02-07T21:25Z 21.5K followers, 10.5K engagements


"@HistoryBoomer IMHO you have to have a reason for living in the hellscape of NYC. Maybe you want to get really rich. Maybe you want to break into the arts or you just like listening to opera year round.or you want to throw yourself against the best in your chosen profession. All valid reasons"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2020354339332571415)  2026-02-08T04:29Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"@HistoryBoomer May I suggest. https://www.amazon.com/Spy-Sites-New-York-City/dp/1626167095/ref=sr_1_1crid=2Y3I1ZRGVPCIQ&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.i3MQUAxUV0swnKKo0QhsGXIjwMtNadXfE9_rLgbct3xCa3ncTK1z9x2EIhD6K6Uh.VvHGl2r9OkhH9jFOcreq3-Xv5vBTjdJAw3GZf8SoNHY&dib_tag=se&keywords=spy+sites+of+new+york&qid=1770526543&sprefix=spy+sites+of+new+york%2Caps%2C269&sr=8-1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2020361013028352201)  2026-02-08T04:56Z 21.5K followers, [--] engagements


"@HistoryBoomer Is urban wasteland better"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2020368023123841291)  2026-02-08T05:24Z 21.5K followers, [--] engagements


"@ericowensdc @HistoryBoomer My favorite story of the time. Girl I knew called at 2am. A rat fell from behind a tile into her bathtub. Then she said "Wait I have an idea" Click. Ten minutes later phone rings "Holy fu@k rats can swim""  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2020371499086147670)  2026-02-08T05:37Z 21.5K followers, [--] engagements


"OTD Feb [--] [----] #William_Tecumseh_Sherman born. Some Southerners continue to hold grudge. Please just let it go already"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2020447753436795118)  2026-02-08T10:40Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"OTD Feb [-----] General #William_Donovan died. #President_Eisenhower called him "The last hero.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2020447896647123036)  2026-02-08T10:41Z 21.5K followers, [----] engagements


"Donovan's the sort of guy who thought nothing of parachuting into France blowing up a bridge pissing in the Luftwaffe gas tanks then dancing on the roof of the St Regis with a German spy." -- John Ford"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2020447970563445029)  2026-02-08T10:41Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"IT'S TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS FAST FOOD AND NOSH EDITION Russian spy Anna Chapman favored a Starbucks on 8th Avenue and 47th Street as a location for covert communications. Also used one at [--] Hanover Square location"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2020568972215632010)  2026-02-08T18:42Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"IT'S TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS FAST FOOD AND NOSH EDITION Compton's Cafeteria a favorite among transgender in San Franciscos Tenderloin was a favorite meeting place for Soviet intelligence officers and their agents"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2020569905922208219)  2026-02-08T18:46Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"IT'S TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS FAST FOOD AND NOSH EDITION Russian spies Mikhail Kutsik and Natalia Pereverzeva (a.k.a. Michael Zottoli and Patricia Mills) seemed to like the now defunct Tillies Coffee shop at [---] Dekalb Avenue in Brooklyns Fort Greene"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2020570789330797036)  2026-02-08T18:49Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"IT'S TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS FAST FOOD AND NOSH EDITION In [----] St Petersburg troll farm announced free hotdogs in Times Sq. on FB & watched a public webcam as people showed up. Proof of concept. BUT THERE WERE NO FREE HOTDOGS THESE PEOPLE ARE MONSTERS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2020571743060926619)  2026-02-08T18:53Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"@BlackMortadella I haven't done a deep dive into the guy. He seems to have made a bunch of money catering to incels and/or marginalized guys or something. Maybe Fight Club adjacent Not sure"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2020617279936053271)  2026-02-08T21:54Z 21.5K followers, [--] engagements


"@steve_thephotog FWIW Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin aka Putin's Chef who funded the troll farm started off selling hotdogs on the street in Leningrad. Don't know if this was significant in the operation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2020619334100701697)  2026-02-08T22:02Z 21.5K followers, [--] engagements


"@BlackMortadella You had me at "ponzi pimp.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2020620284328599737)  2026-02-08T22:06Z 21.5K followers, [--] engagements


"@steve_thephotog I haven't done Olympic spy facts. Not a lot there. Dave Sime an American sprinter was recruited by CIA to persuade Soviet Igor Ter-Ovanesyan to defect in [----]. Unsuccessful. Sime grandfather to NFL's Christian McCaffrey"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2020657883655082310)  2026-02-09T00:35Z 21.5K followers, [--] engagements


"@BlackMortadella Who doesn't love Merry Clayton https://www.youtube.com/watchv=ChONufP0FEs https://www.youtube.com/watchv=ChONufP0FEs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2020658888325157112)  2026-02-09T00:39Z 21.5K followers, [--] engagements


"@BlackMortadella She had me at Chanel scarf"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2020659733963866402)  2026-02-09T00:43Z 21.5K followers, [--] engagements


"OTD Feb [-----] #Ignaz_Lincoln arrives in NYC. Former Member of Parliament con man spy Buddhist monk and priest. Eh NYC has seen worse"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2020801055236215148)  2026-02-09T10:04Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"OTD Feb [-----] #Lev_Sedov #Trotsky's son rushed to obscure clinic with stomach pains by #NKVD officer posing as friend. Predictable outcome"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2020801194810036242)  2026-02-09T10:05Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"OTD FEB [--] [----] Yuri Andropov died. Former KGB chief Yuri Andropov who headed Soviet Union succeeding Brezhnev. Mistakenly viewed as moderate was brutal in crushing dissidents including Prague Spring"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2020801631164485954)  2026-02-09T10:07Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"OTD Feb [--] [----] Thomas Paine born. Roused the rabble in the colonies with tracts like Common Sense and the Rights of Man. Also the first leaker intentionally blew a clandestine operation conducted with France to deliver weaponry to the roused rabble to fight the Brits"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2020852410302726575)  2026-02-09T13:28Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"@PunKandStuff I wanna see a Lego Hilly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2020947684446908606)  2026-02-09T19:47Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"@delmonaco_joe Fear and Desire not great"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2020981606698406076)  2026-02-09T22:02Z 21.5K followers, [--] engagements


"For anyone curious Morals Squad (1960) is my favorite grindhouse film. Written and directed by Eagle Squadron veteran Barry Mahon and featuring Jeri Archer the model for Dennis Patrick's Belle Poitrine in his book Little Me. @BlackMortadella"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2021012284798300503)  2026-02-10T00:04Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"@BlackMortadella Little Me was the project Dennis Patrick took on after the success of Auntie Mame. The book is worth tracking down. Archer was a high end call girl who operated out of her Tudor City apt where they shot the images for Little Me. She was buds with Dennis then had a falling out"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2021024008251027702)  2026-02-10T00:50Z 21.5K followers, [--] engagements


"OTD Feb [--] [----] #U2 driver #Francis_Gary_Powers swapped for #Soviet spy #Rudolph_Abel on #Glienicker_Bridge"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2021163524433625279)  2026-02-10T10:05Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"OTD Feb [------] #Soviet_defector #Walter_Krivitsky found dead in Bellevue DC hotel. Authorities rule it suicide"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2021163855791915026)  2026-02-10T10:06Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"@HorribleSanity @_newspapers An enduring genre in journalism that denigrates the value of higher education. Continues today with stories of Bill Gates as college drop out"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2021337504159551911)  2026-02-10T21:36Z 21.5K followers, [--] engagements


"@adrianmckinty @timmckane According to NYC legend when Nathanael West was the nigh clerk at the Kenmore Hotel on E 23rd St he let his broke writer friends stay for free. One friend Dashiell Hammett finished the Maltese Falcon at the Kenmore"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2021340996437745880)  2026-02-10T21:50Z 21.5K followers, [--] engagements


"@adrianmckinty @timmckane The Kenmore is homeless housing these days"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2021345263844237513)  2026-02-10T22:07Z 21.5K followers, [--] engagements


"OTD Feb [--] [----] teen #Lady_Jane_Grey aka The [--] Day Queen executed for treason. Brits always took that stuff seriously"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2021895898004124156)  2026-02-12T10:35Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"https://www.amazon.com/Honey-Trapped-Betrayal-Weaponized-Love/dp/075099603X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0_encoding=UTF8&qid=1652466751&sr=8-1 https://www.amazon.com/Honey-Trapped-Betrayal-Weaponized-Love/dp/075099603X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0_encoding=UTF8&qid=1652466751&sr=8-1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2021896755931910623)  2026-02-12T10:38Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"TOO OBSCURE TO MATTER The camera flashed in the "No fighting in the War Room" scene in Strangelove looks very much like the matchbox camera Kodak created for the OSS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2022143469385564459)  2026-02-13T02:59Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"@TexasLulu Knowing the subways and knowing locations of public bathrooms were basic NYC survival skills. Fun facts: Second flr Hilton on 6th had great bathrooms and a bank of payphones. Basement of the Plaza Hotel featured an attendant with stain remover"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2022171396793909331)  2026-02-13T04:50Z 21.5K followers, [--] engagements


"OTD Feb [--] [----] Oliver Reed born. Starred in The Assassination Bureau and some other movies. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=Fux3WQ-l89g https://www.youtube.com/watchv=Fux3WQ-l89g"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2022354142346477934)  2026-02-13T16:56Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"OTD Feb [--] [----] #Robert_Lamphere born. #FBI's liaison with VENONA Project. Very significant spycatcher. Fun Fact: Lamphere wrote: ''McCarthy's star chamber proceedings'' FBI Agent Robert Lamphere wrote ''his lies and overstatements hurt our counterintelligence efforts.''"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2022616035837329687)  2026-02-14T10:16Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"OTD Feb [--] [----] Canadian and Brit authorities begin arresting spies based on defector Igor Gouzenko information. Included Kathleen Willsher in British High Commission's registry and scientist Alan Nunn May"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2022974985065689173)  2026-02-15T10:03Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"OTD Feb [--] [----] #Soviet_spy #Judith_Coplon conveniently assigned to Foreign Agents Registration Section of DOJ"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2022975098949349500)  2026-02-15T10:03Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"LOW UK PRICE https://www.amazon.co.uk/Honey-Trapped-Betrayal-Weaponized-Love/dp/075099603X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.7wDqC1n8pJ2a8y46Jb8JU7MjkgDzZ9c6nmxVxJT3xqJmqxRTGLdtXqPtYlPJhe__VgRFmXYIb9JTXpypYDdOsXfklHJlEQImpjh_9Nn_Kc4.wZZRh6yVb9xVhOV7mvrRxB9ZrlnEFPwgVYM810ejfSU&qid=1771150001&sr=8-1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2022975989458829441)  2026-02-15T10:07Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"Not in the files"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2023108524948021588)  2026-02-15T18:53Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"Have we explored the possibility of Indigenous Uncontacted peoples of South America were involved"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2023228714385891554)  2026-02-16T02:51Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was the only general on D-Day to land by sea with the first wave of troops. At [--] and the oldest man in the invasion. Henry Fonda played Gen. Teddy Roosevelt Jr. in the film the Longest Day. He was [--] the same age as his character. This aerial tracking shot in The Longest Day (1962) remains a staggering feat of scale and coordination. https://t.co/CA1QlzUknv This aerial tracking shot in The Longest Day (1962) remains a staggering feat of scale and coordination. https://t.co/CA1QlzUknv"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2022893155859738819)  2026-02-15T04:38Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"My new favorite piece of disinformation. Only because it stars a book"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2022963485987205564)  2026-02-15T09:17Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"https://www.facebook.com/KeensSteakhouse/posts/join-us-at-keens-as-we-confer-the-lincoln-casket-flag-from-1865-to-its-permanent/1521462206652278/ https://www.facebook.com/KeensSteakhouse/posts/join-us-at-keens-as-we-confer-the-lincoln-casket-flag-from-1865-to-its-permanent/1521462206652278/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2023199122929680624)  2026-02-16T00:53Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"OTD Feb [--] [----] #Kermit_Roosevelt_Jr born. #OSS officer and later served with the #CIA. Grandson of #Theodore_Roosevelt"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2023347153146663107)  2026-02-16T10:42Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"@Kristine_Froeba @_debramessing I once saw Goldie Hawn kissing Kurt Russell -- shamelessly in public -- before she got on the subway at Columbus Circle. [--] out of [--] on the Celebrity Sighting Scale"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2017636190845878598)  2026-01-31T16:28Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"ITS TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS FOOTBALL Allen Skip Walz crew/rowing coach for Yale was a talent spotter/recruiter for the CIA. He was also the announcer for the very first televised NFL game Oct [--] [----] Philadelphia Eagles v. Brooklyn Dodgers at Brooklyn's Ebbets Field"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2020216170905788807)  2026-02-07T19:20Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"ITS TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS FOOTBALL E. Michael Burke opted to join the OSS during World War II rather than play for Philadelphia Eagles. Infiltrated into Italy and then France Burke worked with the Resistance in preparation for D-Day later joined the CIA"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2020217631576367252)  2026-02-07T19:26Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"ITS TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS FOOTBALL Soviet spy Morris Cohen aka Peter Kroger central figure in Portland Spy Ring attended Mississippi State College on a football scholarship"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2020217964469846175)  2026-02-07T19:27Z 21.5K followers, [----] engagements


"@BlackMortadella @elie_foube16925 Oxfordshire you say Nope. Nope. Nope. The place is a hellscape of murder and theremin music"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2022461214518071309)  2026-02-14T00:01Z 21.5K followers, [--] engagements


"@HighSierraMan @CinemaTweets1 Something happens to musicians on the road. I'm not a musician and I've never been on the road. But I've seen it multiple times"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2022529090335519048)  2026-02-14T04:31Z 21.5K followers, [--] engagements


"OTD Feb [------] #William_Tecumseh_Sherman died in NYC. NYers erect statue just to irritate Southerners"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2022616135703613853)  2026-02-14T10:17Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"OTD Feb [--] [----] KGB colonel Yuri Nosenko defects to the US. Bad intelligence leads to suspicion of KGB plot and his imprisonment"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2022616518761287939)  2026-02-14T10:18Z 21.5K followers, [----] engagements


"@BulldogTCOB No. No he was not. What he did was discredit counterintelligence and the hunt for real spies. In a March [--] [----] press conference President Truman said "I think the greatest asset that the Kremlin has is Senator McCarthy.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2022619625947828439)  2026-02-14T10:31Z 21.5K followers, [--] engagements


"SPY LOVE FOR VALENTINES DAY If we could just have the kitchen and our bedroom that would be all wed need. Julia Child"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2022813773510156359)  2026-02-14T23:22Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"SPY LOVE FOR VALENTINES DAY It is entirely likely that high value Soviet NKVD intelligence officer Jakob Golos died from amorous misadventure with Elizabeth Bentley (Vassar College 30). Long-time lovers he died of heart attack in her Barrow Street apartment"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2022814329951666332)  2026-02-14T23:24Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"SPY LOVE FOR VALENTINES DAY Dusko Popov's Brit codename was tricycle apparently in reference to his preference for entertaining two ladies at once"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2022815778366525701)  2026-02-14T23:30Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"SPY LOVE FOR VALENTINES DAY According to legend which I choose to believe Brit spy Robert Bruce Lockhart was arrested while in bed with femme fatale (likely Soviet spy and maybe double-agent) Moura Budberg"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2022815943060082780)  2026-02-14T23:31Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"SPY LOVE FOR VALENTINES DAY SOE cryptographer Leo Marks composed original poems as code. His poem The Life that I have written in memory of a girlfriend who died was issued to SOE operative Violette Szabo. It was also the wedding poem for Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2022817173954003076)  2026-02-14T23:36Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"SPY LOVE FOR VALENTINES DAY Soviet spy Richard Sorges agent Hotsumi Ozaki a journalist with the Asahi Shimbun penned a number of love poems to his wife Eiko after capture. Following the war the poems/letters were collected in a volume titled Love Was Like A Falling Star"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2022817553311990011)  2026-02-14T23:37Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"SPY LOVE FOR VALENTINES DAY Those outraged about Ian Fleming's affair with Blanche Blackwell should remember Ann Fleming was carrying on with MP Hugh Gaitskell shocking society by hooking up with the Leader of Labour Party THE LABOUR PARTY"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2022827337100710219)  2026-02-15T00:16Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"@LuisMorenolg @CBSNews The 18th cent. Brit inventor philosopher Jeremy Bentham came up with concept of the panopticon assuming folks would behave if surveilled. He saw it as a govt tool. It's now a tool of society at large. Bentham's body was stuffed and is in a box at University College in London"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2022889789947510971)  2026-02-15T04:24Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"@BlackMortadella @roughtradeX He was a semi-regular contributor to Playboy back when Playboy cared about fiction"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2022967260022034485)  2026-02-15T09:32Z 21.5K followers, [--] engagements


"@BlackMortadella @roughtradeX I met some of the old time editors from Playboy back in the day. They were really trying to do something unique with a ton of money flowing in. To a certain degree they did"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2022969115602981298)  2026-02-15T09:39Z 21.5K followers, [--] engagements


"@BlackMortadella @roughtradeX Hugh Hefner's problem was he spent too much time being Hugh Hefner. It's difficult to comprehend the money that was flowing in or the risks they were taking. Yeah let's do a long form interview with Oriana Fallaci"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2022972428922532256)  2026-02-15T09:53Z 21.5K followers, [--] engagements


"https://www.amazon.com/Honey-Trapped-Betrayal-Weaponized-Love/dp/075099603X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0_encoding=UTF8&qid=1652466751&sr=8-1 https://www.amazon.com/Honey-Trapped-Betrayal-Weaponized-Love/dp/075099603X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0_encoding=UTF8&qid=1652466751&sr=8-1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2022975729139319089)  2026-02-15T10:06Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"Not in the files"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2023075820609380603)  2026-02-15T16:43Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"#OTD Feb [--] [----] #Christopher_Boyce born. The Falcon half of #Falcon_and_the_Snowman spy duo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2023347284109623746)  2026-02-16T10:42Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"@AllThingsNatSec Founding Father James Madison who drafted the Bill of Rights and co-authored Federalist Papers has joined the conversations and he's really fu@kin' pissed off"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2022894383868317816)  2026-02-15T04:42Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"Feb [--] [----] Massive explosion aboard the battleship USS Mainein Havana harbor kills [---] of the fewer than [---] American crew aboard. Spanish American war soon follows"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2022975315388125539)  2026-02-15T10:04Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"Feb [--] [----] McCormack-Dickstein Committee releases final report on plot to establish fascist government by financiers in U.S. called Cocktail Putsch or Business Plot.The wild scheme probably discussed but not enacted"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2022975495009079346)  2026-02-15T10:05Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"OTD Feb [--] [----] President Harry S. Truman receives first ever Daily Summary later to be known as the Presidents Daily Brief"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2022975587686424825)  2026-02-15T10:05Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"KNOW WHO ISN'T IN THE FILES"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2022977530387427333)  2026-02-15T10:13Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"@citynightcap @TheMonologist Joplin was incredibly smart. Skipped grades in school. Father was an engineer. One of the reasons she was hated in her Texas town"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2023060112898961806)  2026-02-15T15:41Z 21.5K followers, [--] engagements


"@citynightcap @TheMonologist I may not have learned much but I learned that each generation is posed with the challenge of surviving the unique zeitgeist it encounters. The 1960s were a real test of survival skills"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2023064184355999764)  2026-02-15T15:57Z 21.5K followers, [--] engagements


"OTD Feb [--] [----] #Reich_Cinema_Law passed in Germany making all #movie_scripts subject to official approval. Spy thrillers not allowed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2023346913630929148)  2026-02-16T10:41Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"ITS GEORGE KENNANS BIRTHDAY The jealous and intolerant eye of the Kremlin can distinguish in the end only vassals and enemies and the neighbors of Russia if they do not wish to be one must reconcile themselves to being the other. -- George F. Kennan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/2023348387677098135)  2026-02-16T10:47Z 21.5K followers, [---] engagements


"#OTD Sept [--] [----] British troops led by #Gen_Howe take #Philadelphia. #George_Washington and men sojourn to far more scenic #Valley_Forge"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1971506950665085334)  2025-09-26T09:27Z 21.3K followers, [---] engagements


"OTD Sept [------] #Stanislav_Petrov saved world by not launching nuke attack against US in response to false USSR satellite data"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1971507267045646406)  2025-09-26T09:28Z 21.3K followers, [--] engagements


"OTD Sept [--] [----] Olivia Newton John born. Best remember as daughter of Brinley Newton-John who worked in intelligence for MI5. Interrogated captured German pilots and helped authenticate the identity of Rudolf Hess"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1971531208950784286)  2025-09-26T11:04Z 21.3K followers, [----] engagements


"In the urban hellscape of NYC venders are selling knock offs on Canal Street. Canal Street Guy in knock off Ray.Ban Wayfarers investigates 🚨 Illegal migrant gang selling marijuana on the streets of NYC jumped my cameraman and I on their block NYC is a sanctuary city and protects illegals as they sell drugs marijuana counterfeits and more on the streets. When will law and order be restored in NYC https://t.co/mGGvhbxivO 🚨 Illegal migrant gang selling marijuana on the streets of NYC jumped my cameraman and I on their block NYC is a sanctuary city and protects illegals as they sell drugs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1971534904593944847)  2025-09-26T11:18Z 21.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@msjanebond007 No idea. But guys like this crack me up"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1971548632890614268)  2025-09-26T12:13Z 21.3K followers, [--] engagements


"TOO OBSCURE TO MATTER John Steinbecks [----] novel about a fictional occupation of a town was reprinted by resistance groups in occupied countries for inspiration and was said to have inspired Churchill to launch SOE operations"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1971720427027497411)  2025-09-26T23:35Z 21.3K followers, [----] engagements


"ITS TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS THEATER AND SHOW FOLK EDITION African-American Ritchie Boy William Warfield once appeared in road company of Call Me Mister which also starredwait for itBob Fosse Carl Reiner. Later gained fame in the part of Joe in movie Showboat"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1972063231557751050)  2025-09-27T22:18Z 21.3K followers, [---] engagements


"ITS TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS THEATER AND SHOW FOLK EDITION At the lowest point in the war at Valley Forge George Washington launched a production of Cato A Tragedy written by English playwright Joseph Addison in 1713"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1972063902109417967)  2025-09-27T22:20Z 21.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@TheRickWilson FWIW Lafayette Park as designed by L'Enfant was part of the White House grounds. L'Enfant had Versailles in mind. Jefferson hated the idea and had it bisected by what became Pennsylvania Ave. and the park opened to the public"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1972454205337256394)  2025-09-29T00:11Z 21.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@JohnHMcCallum1 There's always google"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1972455993515835434)  2025-09-29T00:18Z 21.3K followers, [--] engagements


"IT'S TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS CAMERA AND PHOTOGRAPH EDITION Ernst Leitz head of Leica cameras smuggled hundreds Jewish employees out of Germany during WWII. Each was issued Leica camera that easily sold if things went bad. Many ended up in NYC at Fifth Ave Leica showroom"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1972756368538087586)  2025-09-29T20:12Z 21.3K followers, [---] engagements


"IT'S TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS CAMERA AND PHOTOGRAPH EDITION During WWII Kodak produced a line of subminiature cameras for the OSS including the matchbox camera"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1972757843934859556)  2025-09-29T20:18Z 21.3K followers, [---] engagements


"IT'S TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS CAMERA AND PHOTOGRAPH EDITION Mena Edwards The Kodak/Eastman Girl who modeled the companys products was a hostess at WWI German brothel in NYC and a witness in Black Tom Island trial"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1972758088638988542)  2025-09-29T20:19Z 21.3K followers, [---] engagements


"IT'S TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS CAMERA AND PHOTOGRAPH EDITION Edith Tudor Hart who led poor Kim Philby astray was very good photog. Kitty Harris who handled Donald Maclean was a terrible photographer at one point breaking the lens of her Leica. Photos often out of focus"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1972758615917494776)  2025-09-29T20:21Z 21.3K followers, [---] engagements


"#OTD September [--] [----] by #British_Prime_Minister #Neville_Chamberlain lands back home with #Munich_Agreement"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1972966502816252263)  2025-09-30T10:07Z 21.3K followers, [---] engagements


"OTD #Trinh_Thi_Ngoaka #Hanoi_Hannah died Sept [--] [-----] at [--]. #Radio_propagandist for #North_Vietnam. On air [----] through 1975"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1972966705782464680)  2025-09-30T10:08Z 21.3K followers, [---] engagements


"OTD Sept [--] [----] SOE hero Paul Dehn dies. Also wrote some movies including Goldfinger Spy Who Came In From the Cold Murder on the Orient Express and Planet of the Apes. Mostly known for SOE though won Academy Award for Seven Days To Noon"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1972967410685927916)  2025-09-30T10:11Z 21.3K followers, [---] engagements


"OTD Oct [--] [----] State Dept announces transfer of Werner von Braun and his team to America Nazi affiliations expunged"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1973314328779805025)  2025-10-01T09:09Z 21.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@HighSierraMan To be fair better than some guy following from behind whispering in his ear"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1973521184445833276)  2025-10-01T22:51Z 21.3K followers, [--] engagements


"Spy Trench coat Does it have to be a Burberry Jennifer Lawrence wears Dior by Jonathan Anderson at the Dior Spring-Summer [----] show https://t.co/t8NRuce9AP Jennifer Lawrence wears Dior by Jonathan Anderson at the Dior Spring-Summer [----] show https://t.co/t8NRuce9AP"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1973680764391960818)  2025-10-02T09:25Z 21.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@OverStMungos How 'bout a game of checkers Fun Fact: Greene loaned his persona collection of tiny liquor bottles to the film for that scene"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1973683403510911042)  2025-10-02T09:36Z 21.3K followers, [--] engagements


"HAPPY GRAHAM GREENE DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE Oct [--] [----] #Graham_Greene born. Robert Louis Stevenson best remembered as distant relative of Graham Greene but also wrote stuff like Treasure Island and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1973777040416583909)  2025-10-02T15:48Z 21.3K followers, [---] engagements


"HAPPY GRAHAM GREENE DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE Oct [--] [----] #Graham_Greene born. Graham Greene helped in set design for the film Our Man In Havana by loaning the production his personal collection of tiny whisky bottles"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1973777250224070792)  2025-10-02T15:49Z 21.3K followers, [---] engagements


"OTD Oct [-----] #NKVD Order [-----] establishes #SHON (Special Purpose School) #USSR's foreign intelligence school at Balashikha outside Moscow"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1974040045632819540)  2025-10-03T09:13Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"@RSeka91 He'd go to dinner with a collector couple and sketch their kid on a napkin give it to them as a gift. Told photogs for Interview to have cigarette packs facing out with names - cause cigarette companies advertised. He knew a lot of the games"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1974298592304398565)  2025-10-04T02:20Z 21.3K followers, [--] engagements


"STRANGE SPY FACTS SCIENCE FICTION AND HORROR EDITION SOE hero Paul Dehn wrote for screenplays for Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971); Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972); Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1974619700073209974)  2025-10-04T23:36Z 21.3K followers, [---] engagements


"STRANGE SPY FACTS SCIENCE FICTION AND HORROR EDITION E. Howard Hunt former CIA officer entangled in Watergate and Bay of Pigs scandals penned a series of spy-occult-horror books under the name David St. John"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1974620157038539170)  2025-10-04T23:38Z 21.3K followers, [---] engagements


"STRANGE SPY FACTS SCIENCE FICTION AND HORROR EDITION Donald Barr OSS veteran and father of the former attorney general wrote a pair of very odd science fiction novels Space Relations (1973) and a Planet in Arms (1981) which featured highly sexualized plot devices"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1974620334512120148)  2025-10-04T23:39Z 21.3K followers, [---] engagements


"STRANGE SPY FACTS SCIENCE FICTION AND HORROR EDITION The father of modern psyops Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger wrote science fiction under name Cordwainer Smith. Complete short stories can be found in The Rediscovery of Man while Psychological Warfare (1948) remains a classic"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1974621150711005212)  2025-10-04T23:42Z 21.3K followers, [---] engagements


"STRANGE SPY FACTS SCIENCE FICTION AND HORROR EDITION Fletcher Pratt founding member of the Hydra Club and who may or may not have worked for U.S. intelligence wrote Secret and Urgent (1939) which inspired David Kahns interest in codebreaking"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1974621505742094389)  2025-10-04T23:43Z 21.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@DADiClementi Paris Theodore was married to Lee Becker who played the original Anybodys in the original cast of West Side Story. Theodore was from a show business family. He appeared in NBCs [----] broadcast of Peter Pan as lost boy Nibs which starred the Mary Martin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1974697158701109559)  2025-10-05T04:44Z 21.3K followers, [--] engagements


"DEEP DIVE DR NO ON DR NO DAY Dr No is a Chinese owner of a guano mine. Fleming's good friend and fellow WWII Brit spy John Ivar Bryce's owed part of his family fortune from a guano mine"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1974855268107468910)  2025-10-05T15:12Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"DEEP DIVE DR NO ON DR NO DAY For publicity for Dr No they sent Connery on tour accompanied by three women a blonde brunette and a redhead -- they conspired with an Italian casino to announce a Brit actor playing fictional British spy had broken the bank of an Italian casino"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1974858801355628871)  2025-10-05T15:26Z 21.3K followers, [---] engagements


"Reminder: Tenet disrespected Brooks Bros. a foundational element of the American intelligence community. I ordered my hot sauce an hour ago. https://t.co/YiiHYow7dV I ordered my hot sauce an hour ago. https://t.co/YiiHYow7dV"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1974992181594403239)  2025-10-06T00:16Z 21.3K followers, [---] engagements


"OTD Oct [--] [----] Naval War College is established at Newport Rhode Island"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1975125820369957265)  2025-10-06T09:07Z 21.3K followers, [---] engagements


"I am definitely up for the Jennifer Lawrence entry into the long neglected genre of psychotic writer movies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1975278092257235416)  2025-10-06T19:12Z 21.3K followers, [---] engagements


"ITS TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS WHAT SPIES READ EDITION When on the run to Guy Burgess Moscow traveled under alias Roger Styles from two Agatha Christie mysteries The Mysterious Affair at Styles and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. Owned both in Penguin paperback editions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1975296401677689064)  2025-10-06T20:25Z 21.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@SarahMPottratz My million dollar idea for Russia. I'm gonna clean up"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1975396387639730486)  2025-10-07T03:02Z 21.3K followers, [--] engagements


"OTD Oct [-----] #Nathan_Silvermaster died. Ran expansive #Soviet #spy_ring in Washington. Never brought to justice but moved to #New_Jersey"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1975486965807292501)  2025-10-07T09:02Z 21.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@RYP__ Initial plans by L'Enfant had 7-acre Lafayette Square park as part of White House grounds -- think Versailles -- too monarchial. Jefferson hated the idea and had Pennsylvania Ave divide what would become Lafayette Square from the White House grounds"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1975638014991999096)  2025-10-07T19:03Z 21.3K followers, [--] engagements


"IT'S TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS COSMETICS EDITION The ever efficient FBI noted the contents of spy Judith Coplons purse included an emery board glasses case and a tube of Irresistible Lipstick Orchid Pink"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1975649939322773931)  2025-10-07T19:50Z 21.3K followers, [---] engagements


"IT'S TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS COSMETICS EDITION The KGB's ZVOUK lipstick camera provided an active concealment. A lady could apply lipstick and take a photo simultaneously. Each tube held approximately [--] exposures"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1975651437787934782)  2025-10-07T19:56Z 21.3K followers, [---] engagements


"IT'S TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS COSMETICS EDITION Joan Miller aka Miss X who was working as a sales woman at Elizabeth Arden in London was recruited by MI5 eventually infiltrating the Right Club and assisting in the operation leading to the arrest of Anna Wolkoff"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1975651576141300143)  2025-10-07T19:56Z 21.3K followers, [---] engagements


"IT'S TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS COSMETICS EDITION One of the gifts the KGB gave FBI double agent John Huminik was a bottle of perfume called Midnight in Moscow for his wife"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1975652081655816289)  2025-10-07T19:58Z 21.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@roughtradeX They became developers in Loveladies NJ. Long Beach. Another member of the ring William "Lud" Ullman designed the homes. The Silvermasters were polyamorous -- Ullman was the third member of the throuple"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1975754726596559165)  2025-10-08T02:46Z 21.3K followers, [--] engagements


"OTD Oct [--] [----] #Lauchlin_Currie born. Advisor to #FDR. #Whittaker_Chambers #Elizabeth_Bentley and #Venona revealed him as #Soviet_spy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1975849767227064769)  2025-10-08T09:04Z 21.3K followers, [---] engagements


"#OTD Oct [--] [----] #Oskar_Schindler died. Former #Abwehr officer credited with saving the lives of [----] Jews by employing them in factories. Used basic elements of #tradecraft"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1976219578222227836)  2025-10-09T09:33Z 21.3K followers, [---] engagements


"#OTD Oct [--] [----] #E_Howard_Hunt born. #OSSand #CIAofficer best remembered for role in #Watergate_Scandal. Later turned writer and penned a series of spy-occult-horror books under the name David St. John"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1976220573916332186)  2025-10-09T09:37Z 21.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@absmom1 See: Cormac McCarthy's The Counselor. The corrupt seem fascinated and puzzled by innocence. And holy crap Cameron Diaz is a fine actor https://www.youtube.com/watchv=WBwVB8Ff_ps https://www.youtube.com/watchv=WBwVB8Ff_ps"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1976326629589909680)  2025-10-09T16:39Z 21.3K followers, [--] engagements


"@BlackMortadella https://pickleguys.com/ https://pickleguys.com/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1976439974468981202)  2025-10-10T00:09Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"https://www.reuters.com/world/nobel-peace-prize-winner-be-announced-year-overshadowed-by-trump-2025-10-10/ https://www.reuters.com/world/nobel-peace-prize-winner-be-announced-year-overshadowed-by-trump-2025-10-10/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1976580603978940471)  2025-10-10T09:28Z 21.3K followers, [---] engagements


"In honor of the Nobel Peace Prize. Why do Norwegian warships have a barcode painted on them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1976590735727354236)  2025-10-10T10:08Z 21.3K followers, [---] engagements


"In honor of the Nobel Peace Prize. Why do Norwegian warships have barcodes painted on them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1976688501010903140)  2025-10-10T16:37Z 21.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@militaryhistori @DogLovers03 Wall Street has plenty of corporate raiders these days.they'll take your company in a heartbeat"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1976767373886865872)  2025-10-10T21:50Z 21.3K followers, [--] engagements


"LIFE RULE #765543: Trying to make sense of the world using pop culture is pointless except for the Three Stooges and Road Runner. Nyuk nyuk nyuk beep-beep"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1977065625555235325)  2025-10-11T17:35Z 21.3K followers, [---] engagements


"ITS TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS HEP CAT JAZZ EDITION Among the events the CIA funded in the Culture War were concerts by jazz musicians like Dave Brubeck and the Boston Symphony Orchestra"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1977080908017811876)  2025-10-11T18:36Z 21.3K followers, [---] engagements


"ITS TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS HEP CAT JAZZ EDITION Soviet leader and hep cat poser Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov was viewed as a moderate in Western media because of his proclaimed fondness for jazz and collection of American classic jazz of the 1930's and 1940's"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1977082393451442392)  2025-10-11T18:42Z 21.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@debjshaw @InkyplotsArt Having been "music industry adjacent" in a misspent youth I remain a steadfast believer in bar music as opposed to human jukeboxes that fill arenas"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1977147697300955510)  2025-10-11T23:01Z 21.3K followers, [--] engagements


"OTD Oct [--] [----] The USS Cole was attacked while refueling in Yemen's Aden harbor. [--] American sailors were killed and [--] injured. al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the attack"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1977304975157203301)  2025-10-12T09:26Z 21.3K followers, [---] engagements


"#OTDOct [--] [----] #Edith_Cavell British nurse who helped [---] Allied soldiers escape German-occupied Belgium executed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1977305412279128570)  2025-10-12T09:28Z 21.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@roughtradeX Note: The Japanese effort was largely prior to Pearl Harbor and somewhat mirrored the German effort of isolationism"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1977556013529407716)  2025-10-13T02:04Z 21.3K followers, [--] engagements


"@TexasLulu @Mizzcheevous1 I imagine that it pays off the mortgage for some people or wipes out credit card debt"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1977570512609128826)  2025-10-13T03:02Z 21.3K followers, [--] engagements


"OH THOSE ROOSEVELTS Quentin Roosevelt I youngest son of President Teddy Roosevelt was shot down in a dogfight over France in [----]. As a child was the ringleader of the White House Gang -- children who caused havoc with games and practical jokes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1977782159621378252)  2025-10-13T17:03Z 21.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@BlackMortadella Need I say Beverly Hills Cop is a masterpiece. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=un1Ilr5kDBs https://www.youtube.com/watchv=un1Ilr5kDBs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1977786755525877819)  2025-10-13T17:21Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"@BlackMortadella A Bond heavy in Octopussy. There was something else about him.art collector in real life"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1977796644012765588)  2025-10-13T18:00Z 21.3K followers, [--] engagements


"If the apocalypse arrives and money becomes worthless how do they pay people to do stuff for them Zuckerberg. Thiel. Altman. Hoffman. The architects of the digital age are buying "apocalypse insurance" building bunkersunderground fortresses with blast doors private farmland and off-grid systems. Theyre preparing the collapse. Q: What do they know that we dont https://t.co/Cd4Jj9eYot Zuckerberg. Thiel. Altman. Hoffman. The architects of the digital age are buying "apocalypse insurance" building bunkersunderground fortresses with blast doors private farmland and off-grid systems. Theyre"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1977864357510820144)  2025-10-13T22:29Z 21.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@BlackMortadella She was crazy as a box of frogs but a brilliant writer. "The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots" -- Black Lamb and Grey Falcon"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1977865868240462137)  2025-10-13T22:35Z 21.3K followers, [--] engagements


"@Ridge_Cook I've met a lot of guys who live and die by numbers on a computer screen. Not the way I keep score but most of them are decent human beings"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1977888382417088610)  2025-10-14T00:05Z 21.3K followers, [--] engagements


"LIFE LESSON #6565: Success on Wall Street is ridiculously easy. Pretend you are [--] years old with a short time horizon and instinctive need to do what everyone else is doing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1978197853810884624)  2025-10-14T20:34Z 21.3K followers, [---] engagements


"LIFE LESSON #655: Success on Wall Street is ridiculously easy. Pretend you are [--] years old with a short time horizon and instinctive need to do what everyone else is doing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1978253025144615216)  2025-10-15T00:14Z 21.3K followers, [---] engagements


"OTD Oct [--] [----] Charlie Chaplin a British actor who would later marry Eugene ONeills daughter Oona -- released The Great Dictator a film heavily derivative of the Three Stooges masterpiece You Nazty Spy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1978396866120229325)  2025-10-15T09:45Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"@SarahMPottratz My friend who passed loved the action. And the history -- the guy studied the history of Wall Street relentlessly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1978541863175909814)  2025-10-15T19:21Z 21.3K followers, [--] engagements


"@dcboyisangry https://www.facebook.com/carlaharveymusic/videos/watched-mick-jagger-sing-and-dance-his-ass-off-for-two-hours-last-night-and-left/2089951291361348/ https://www.facebook.com/carlaharveymusic/videos/watched-mick-jagger-sing-and-dance-his-ass-off-for-two-hours-last-night-and-left/2089951291361348/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1978954393975132654)  2025-10-16T22:41Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"@dcboyisangry To be fair it's in his job description. And he puts in the work"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1978960006226534652)  2025-10-16T23:03Z 21.3K followers, [--] engagements


"@dcboyisangry Some would argue he's been Mick Jagger for far too long"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1978962649145573776)  2025-10-16T23:13Z 21.3K followers, [--] engagements


"@NinaAntonia13 @MickBlackwall Major Robert Glynn Faithfull was uh really something. FWIW her mom was a minor aristo and she was also the grand niece of the guy who wrote Venus In Furs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1978991113810727053)  2025-10-17T01:07Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"@LizzieKFoley @SenMullin New Jersey"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1978994791565140473)  2025-10-17T01:21Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"Fun Fact: Everything in NYC is about real estate.except when it's about money"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1979023530961383690)  2025-10-17T03:15Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"#OTD June [--] [----] #t_shirt industry celebrates #Ernesto_Che_Guevara birth. #fashion #che #hipsters"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/742690223281307648)  2016-06-14T12:08Z 21.2K followers, [--] engagements


"OTD July [--] #Happy_Birthday #U_S_Secret_Service. #Established #July_5_1865"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/750313498865963008)  2016-07-05T13:00Z 22.8K followers, [--] engagements


"#Slacker_Raids of Sept [-----] cause public outcry. Volunteers of #American_Protective_League overly enthusiastic"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/772077487551643648)  2016-09-03T14:23Z 22.6K followers, [--] engagements


"#OTD Sept [--] [----] Germany launches first #V2 rocket attack on England. #Thomas_Pynchon takes notice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/773972320654426112)  2016-09-08T19:52Z 22.8K followers, [--] engagements


"OTD Oct [------] Stalin's body removed from Lenin's tombre-buried at Kremlin Wall. #DeStaliinization better view more tourist foot traffic"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/793097039815008295)  2016-10-31T14:27Z 22.9K followers, [--] engagements


"OTD Dec [--] [----] #Johnny_Michael_Spann buried at #Arlington_National_Cemetery The [--] #CIA officer to die in the line of duty"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/807726420801814528)  2016-12-10T23:19Z 22.8K followers, [--] engagements


"OTD Feb [--] [----] #Takeo_Yoshikawa died. Chief Japanese spy in lead up to attack on Pearl Harbor. Arrested soon after attack later traded"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/833658755539664896)  2017-02-20T12:45Z 22.6K followers, [--] engagements


"OTD Feb [------] #Takeo_Yoshikawa died.Chief Japanese spy in Hawaii prior to attack on Pearl Harbor. Arrested after attack later traded"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/833771893127798784)  2017-02-20T20:14Z 22.9K followers, [--] engagements


"#Dashiell_Hammett born May [--] [----]. One-time Pinkerton blacklisted & jailed during Red Scare." Buried in Arlington National Cemetery"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/868526394514526210)  2017-05-27T17:56Z 22.9K followers, [--] engagements


"OTD June [--] [----] #New_York_Times begins publication of #Pentagon_Papers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/874413101277487105)  2017-06-12T23:48Z 22.9K followers, [--] engagements


"#OTD Sept [--] [----] Germany launches first #V2 rocket attack on England. #Thomas_Pynchon takes notice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/906239404003520512)  2017-09-08T19:34Z 22.7K followers, [--] engagements


"#OTD Oct [--] [----] #Harry_Dexter_White born. Gov't economist #Soviet_spy. Revealed by #Elizabeth_Bentley #Whittaker_Chambers #Venona"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/917424775642910721)  2017-10-09T16:21Z 22.9K followers, [--] engagements


"OTD October [--] [----] anarchist #Leon_Czolgosz assassin of President #William_McKinley executed by electrocution"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/924595790575800320)  2017-10-29T11:16Z 22.9K followers, [--] engagements


"OTD Nov [--] [----] #Major_John_Andr captured by American forces near Quebec. Later traded in prisoner exchange"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/926605881537679360)  2017-11-04T00:23Z 22.9K followers, [--] engagements


"OTD Feb [--] [----] Brits go a bit mad over "Cult of the Clitoris" #Maud_Allan along with enormous gay conspiracy by German intel blackmailing [-----] highly placed British perverts. All revealed by some guy named Noel Pemberton Billing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/964473738682134528)  2018-02-16T12:17Z 22.5K followers, [--] engagements


"OTD Feb [------] #Takeo_Yoshikawa died.Chief Japanese spy in Hawaii prior to attack on Pearl Harbor. Arrested after attack later traded"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/966142654714085376)  2018-02-21T02:48Z 22.8K followers, [--] engagements


"OTD Feb [--] [----] #Mary_Walker born. Physician and Union spy during #Civil_War and only woman to receive #Medal_of_Honor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/966438927530938368)  2018-02-21T22:26Z 22.8K followers, [--] engagements


"OTD March [--] [----] #William_Wood died. First head of #United_States_Secret_Service"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/976041995323035648)  2018-03-20T10:25Z 22.8K followers, [--] engagements


"OTD March [--] [----] #William_Wood died. First head of #United_States_Secret_Service"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/976162151395201026)  2018-03-20T18:22Z 22.8K followers, [--] engagements


"OTD April [--] [----] #SOE agents #Odette_Sansom & #Peter_Churchill captured by Abwehr in France. Both survived later married"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/985955057299546112)  2018-04-16T18:56Z 22.6K followers, [--] engagements


"OTD April [--] [----] #Bernard_Baruch coined term "Cold War" during speech before South Carolina House of Representatives"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/985955157505650689)  2018-04-16T18:56Z 22.8K followers, [--] engagements


"OTD April [--] [----] spy turned author #Daniel_Defoe publishes Robinson Crusoe. Tom Hanks and Wilson takes notice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/989316545724801025)  2018-04-26T01:33Z 22.5K followers, [--] engagements

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