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

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

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### Social Influence

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**Social topic influence**
[spy](/topic/spy), [germany](/topic/germany), [moscow](/topic/moscow), [france](/topic/france), [paris](/topic/paris), [st regis](/topic/st-regis), [murder](/topic/murder), [money](/topic/money), [new york city](/topic/new-york-city), [april](/topic/april)

**Top assets mentioned**
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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"@selfstyledsiren Good sauces. Really"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1193335985569796096)  2019-11-10T01:14Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"@ednagonmc What about Maurizio Cattelan's chair https://store.moma.org/prints-artists/featured/maurizio-cattelan/seletti-wears-toiletpaper-volcano-armchair/5680-801326.htmlflow_enabled=false&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIorHdjumj5gIVh5OzCh0Hmw4LEAQYBCABEgLWefD_BwE https://store.moma.org/prints-artists/featured/maurizio-cattelan/seletti-wears-toiletpaper-volcano-armchair/5680-801326.htmlflow_enabled=false&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIorHdjumj5gIVh5OzCh0Hmw4LEAQYBCABEgLWefD_BwE"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1203331557127315457)  2019-12-07T15:12Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"@GarethRubin @AlanJepson4 @spywrite @spyhistory @PhilbyWrites @BenMacintyre1 @JeremyDuns @CharlesCumming @JonCG @ColdWarPod @AWilliamswriter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1259833443719970817)  2020-05-11T13:11Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"Fun Fact: future CIA DCI's first wife was heiress to the Barbasol fortune. The ubiquitous red white and blue shaving cream can is a famous active concealment device including Jurassic Park"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1278069978521108480)  2020-06-30T20:56Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"@lorikramer58 @gtconway3dg I was actually curious about that.so thanks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1337868727589679105)  2020-12-12T21:15Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"@snigskitchen Drugs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1341354334546784256)  2020-12-22T12:06Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"Allan Pinkerton Sean Conery and Frederick Forsyth all born on August [--]. Coincidence"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1430479961631100933)  2021-08-25T10:39Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"IT'S TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS HOOK-UPS AND MARRIAGE U.S. Diplomat William C. Bullitt had terrible taste in women. Had an affair with Russian ballerina Olga Lepeshinskaya collaboration grande horizontale Florence Gould and married John Reeds widow Louise Bryant. Yikes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1604927371957907456)  2022-12-19T19:51Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"IT'S TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS HOOK-UPS AND MARRIAGE Collaboration grande horizontale Florence Gould who rehabilitated her image post-war not only bedded Nazi officials during the Paris occupation and set up call girl ring with Harpers Bazaar editor Marie-Louise Bousquet"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1604927640405680137)  2022-12-19T19:52Z 21.4K followers, [----] engagements


"#OTD Aug [--] [----] #Daniel_Bissell poses as deserter to join British army. Bissell later receives #Badge_of_Merit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1691019791291564034)  2023-08-14T09:31Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"ITS TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS FANCY-PANTSY CLUB EDITION The most exclusive club in DC is Alibi Club. Over the years multiple notable spies have been members included DCI Allen Dulles; DCI Richard Helms; DCI William H. Webster; and DCI and U.S. President George H.W. Bush"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1723488523687231675)  2023-11-11T23:50Z 21.4K followers, [----] engagements


"@JoshuaParkhurst @MalcolmNance FYI: [--] Gay Street owned by oligarch Oleg Deripaskawas once a notorious speakeasy called Pirate Den and home to Mayor Jimmy Walker's mistress Betty Compton a silent film star and Ziegfeld Follies showgirl"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1726935959844045211)  2023-11-21T12:09Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"I got nothing Another normal night discussing the serious issues of the day on Fox. https://t.co/KFptKbfP9C Another normal night discussing the serious issues of the day on Fox. https://t.co/KFptKbfP9C"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1744907218472911172)  2024-01-10T02:21Z 21.4K followers, [----] engagements


"OTD Jan [--] [----] Edward Bancroft secretary to the American Commission in Paris informs British that France and America made a military alliance. Bancrofts communication by dead drop in Tuileries Garden Paris"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1751193550790791179)  2024-01-27T10:40Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"@LauraWalkerKC @lorikramer58 I knew a woman who got her make-up done everyday at Henri Bendel on way to work. She traded romance novels from publisher where she worked for best make-up and perfume"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1759792143990694029)  2024-02-20T04:08Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"OTD March [--] [----]. The first Selfridges store opened on London's Oxford Street. During WWII a secure phone line called SIGSALY between London and DC -- was a honking big and installed installed in #Selfridges basement. Too large for #10_Downing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1768565205527670863)  2024-03-15T09:09Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"@lorikramer58 They are different At least they were in the distant past"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1791285143979639158)  2024-05-17T01:50Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"OTD June [--] [----] Daniel Bissell received Badge of Military Merit for his espionage. Posed as deserted and infiltrated British army for [--] months"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1799374522497536249)  2024-06-08T09:34Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"ITS TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS FANCY-FANCY EDITION The CIAs Cold War Cultural offensive included participation by Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and James Johnson Sweeney the former director of the MoMA and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1810043234401325300)  2024-07-07T20:08Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"#OTD Aug [--] [----] #Anatoli_Golitsyn born. #KGB defector whose complex conspiracy theories created turmoil"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1827644858028204455)  2024-08-25T09:51Z 21.2K followers, [---] engagements


"IT'S TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS COSMETICS EDITION DCI Helms' first wife Julia Bretzman Shields was the Barbasol heiress. The iconic can was often used as a concealment device in fiction and nonfiction. Most notably for dinosaur embryos"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1831403684804321522)  2024-09-04T18:47Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"#OTD Sept [------] legendary #CIA officer #Richard_Bissell_Jrborn.Headed projects like #U2 spy plane & #Bay_of_Pigs. _Bissell grew up in #Mark_Twain_House Hartford CT"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1836332412852142303)  2024-09-18T09:12Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"OTD Sept [--] 1982: Smiley's People a six-part broadcast aired on the BBC. George Smiley played by Alec Guinness returned from retirement"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1837158694783500356)  2024-09-20T15:55Z 21.4K followers, [----] engagements


"ITS TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS CON MEN AND HUSTLER EDITION In [----] Russian diplos and their spouses were exposed at using basic tradecraft in a massive Medicaid scam to finance purchases of designer goods like Prada Jimmy Choo and Burberry"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1855739888747851898)  2024-11-10T22:30Z 21.4K followers, [----] engagements


"@Roger_Xanth_Day @IHearSimon @dieworkwear .while sharing nutty conspiracy theories with the FBI"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1862433390198239738)  2024-11-29T09:48Z 21.2K followers, [--] engagements


"@RamonaRightNow Big time. Part of cultural Cold War"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1884234547656884443)  2025-01-28T13:38Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"IT'S TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS WATCH AND TIMEPIECE EDITION Dutch consular official Raymond Poeteray was jailed for passing secrets to Russia for [--] years. Court granted request to return watches seized including Omega Graham Breitling a Bulgari and Corum. All were fakes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1886125059149893861)  2025-02-02T18:50Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"THE THE SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP. JAMES BOND EDITION While in NYC Bond stays exclusively at hotels owned by Ian Flemings friend and American spy Vincent Astor The St Regis (Live and Let Die) and Hotel Astor (Diamonds Are Forever)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1889450263637086390)  2025-02-11T23:03Z 21.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@dcboyisangry @BlackMortadella Fashion employs hundreds of thousands of people in NYC -- from design to retail sales. It's a billion dollar industry which is nice. However they guard their glamour image jealously"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1889780959286812732)  2025-02-12T20:57Z 21.2K followers, [--] engagements


"OTD Feb [--] [----] OSS officer Sterling Hayden parachutes into Croatia to assist partisans in their fight promoted to the rank of captain. Was later rumored to have done some acting in Hollywood"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1890342954474066168)  2025-02-14T10:10Z 21.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@dieworkwear @dcboyisangry According to his excellent memoir The Times of My Life Jack Heuer (yeah one of those Heuers) worked behind the watch counter at Abercrombie & Fitch for a brief time as a young man"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1890579584686428226)  2025-02-15T01:51Z 21.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Feb [--] [----] Massive explosion aboard the battleship USS Maine in Havana harbor kills [---] of the fewer than [---] American crew aboard. Spanish American war soon follows"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1890712530114228691)  2025-02-15T10:39Z 21.2K followers, [---] engagements


"BLACK HISTORY MONTH SPY FACTS Before starting her stand-up and acting career Wanda Sykes worked for the NSA"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1890826122574573926)  2025-02-15T18:10Z 21.2K followers, [---] engagements


"TOO OBSCURE TO MATTER The building at [--] E [--] St NYC that once housed secret spy org known as The Room comprised of rich guys was blown up in an ugly divorce dispute hours after a ranting email sent to Fox News personalities Sean Hannity and Brit Hume and others"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1891672878812127270)  2025-02-18T02:15Z 21.2K followers, [----] engagements


"SPIESVESPERS LAW: The amount of lip gloss and size of breasts in any given spy movie are in inverse proportion to the accuracy of the film"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1891875421005722022)  2025-02-18T15:40Z 21.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@BlackMortadella TBH (and somewhat serious) I don't know if movies are the right place for accurate spy history"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1892016542079914383)  2025-02-19T01:01Z 21.2K followers, [--] engagements


"@RamonaRightNow Like that time I threw a Nickelback album into the Beatles burning event"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1892484633884807289)  2025-02-20T08:01Z 21.2K 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/1892533029014274451)  2025-02-20T11:13Z 21.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@J_B_Cartwright Not finding much with the google machine. Do you have links"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1892550648954023970)  2025-02-20T12:23Z 21.2K followers, [--] engagements


"@J_B_Cartwright Thanks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1892559176292770050)  2025-02-20T12:57Z 21.2K followers, [--] engagements


"@al_mu7ami @YouTube "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" -- Arthur C. Clarke "Really advanced technology is indistinguishable from an Intro to Physics exam you are taking after a night out of drinking when you should have been studying." -- Spiesvespers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1892903465703117183)  2025-02-21T11:45Z 21.2K followers, [--] engagements


""Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" - Arthur C. Clarke "Really advanced technology is indistinguishable from an Intro to Physics exam after a night out drinking when you should have been studying." - Spiesvespers https://www.youtube.com/watchv=itkvrQUSJC0 https://www.youtube.com/watchv=itkvrQUSJC0"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1892904900738134035)  2025-02-21T11:51Z 21.2K followers, [---] engagements


"OTD Feb [--] [----] disgruntled army sergeant Robert Lee Johnson meets with KGB for the first time. Does not end well"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1893265458771480587)  2025-02-22T11:43Z 21.2K followers, [---] engagements


"OTD May [------] Richard Lewinski who replicated #Enigma_machinefor British intelligence spirited out of Paris ahead of #German occupation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1924129529783558224)  2025-05-18T15:46Z 21.4K followers, [----] engagements


"@SarahMPottratz @seanmdav The dirty secret of NYC: Being in proximity to extreme wealth causes some people more anxiety than being close to poverty. It drives transplants crazy. You can live in a nice upscale 'burb and never see a Richard Mille watch in the wild. I've seen half a dozen in the past year"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1956154060622442679)  2025-08-15T00:40Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"@BlackMortadella I'm hesitant to mention it but there is a kind of mental illness that takes place when people transplant to NYC and get close to large money. Maybe it's an envy thing but they want to Richard Mille watch and the Brioni sportscoat they see in the wild"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1964064954807460124)  2025-09-05T20:35Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"ITS TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS FANCY-FANCY EDITION Hana Koecher part of the Karl and Hana StB husband and wife swinging spy team worked at Harry Winston as a diamond grader then opened her own business as cover for espionage"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1965832073207247194)  2025-09-10T17:37Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"OTD Sept [--] [----] tennis star #Alice_Marble born. Spied for U.S. intel during #WWII. Mission still murky but shot while contacting former lover in Europe rescued and returned to U.S"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1972233279379284108)  2025-09-28T09:33Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"Spots Spots Skyfall isnt just one of the best James Bond films ever made I also consider it one of the best films of this century. By best Im saying within the centurys Top [--] films. Too many great things about this film for Skyfall to be ignored including Mendes Deakins & Javier. https://t.co/a55hEpnsFy Skyfall isnt just one of the best James Bond films ever made I also consider it one of the best films of this century. By best Im saying within the centurys Top [--] films. Too many great things about this film for Skyfall to be ignored including Mendes Deakins & Javier. https://t.co/a55hEpnsFy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1974987932982456796)  2025-10-05T23:59Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"FWIW I ventured out into the NYC dystopian hellscape today to buy OxiClean and Clorox bleach (no-splash Fresh Meadow scent) without serious incident. Trump administration brands US cities war zones as a justification for deploying soldiers against the will of local Democratic officials https://t.co/VoYUDe6JC3 https://t.co/p0b8CawO51 Trump administration brands US cities war zones as a justification for deploying soldiers against the will of local Democratic officials https://t.co/VoYUDe6JC3 https://t.co/p0b8CawO51"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1975002870220255326)  2025-10-06T00:59Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"OTD Oct [--] [----] WWIIs Red Orchestra members posthumously awarded Order of the Red Banner: Harro Schulze-Boysen Arvid Harnack Adam Kuckhoff Ilse Stbe and Hansheinrich Kummerow. Gnther Weisenborn Karl Behrens and Albert Hoessler received the Order of the Patriotic War"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1975125622679822383)  2025-10-06T09:06Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"@providencepost The pay-for-play philosophy thing doesn't seem to end well. Ayn Rand was eventually cast off and died nearly destitute. I'll stick with the writer thing and may I suggest. 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/1975304086821195978)  2025-10-06T20:56Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"@dcboyisangry Could not have come from more different backgrounds. VP grew up on the wrong side of the dvor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1975504654034477138)  2025-10-07T10:13Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"LIFE RULE #656: The really corrupt truly believe everyone is corrupt just as nice people believe everyone is basically nice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1976111309864501756)  2025-10-09T02:23Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"ITS TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS HEP CAT JAZZ EDITION The Nazis hated jazz blamed African Americans and Jews and launched active propaganda campaign against what they termed degenerate music. Not cool cats at all. America responded by broadcasting jazz as a morale booster"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1977082074197803077)  2025-10-11T18:41Z 21.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Polands foreign minister Radosaw Sikorski at the Palace of Westminster next to a Shahed-136 drone acquired by United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) from Ukraine where it was brought down. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/15/ukraine-war-briefing-poland-minister-shows-shahed-drone-and-warns-of-deep-russian-threat https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/15/ukraine-war-briefing-poland-minister-shows-shahed-drone-and-warns-of-deep-russian-threat"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1978638128253374566)  2025-10-16T01:44Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"BEST OLD GUY SPY RUNNING IN LONDON. Daniel Craig v. Tom Cruise"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1978956922083565975)  2025-10-16T22:51Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"#OTD Oct [--] [----] famed photographer #Alexander_Gardner born. His work serves as record of #Civil_War. Later pioneered use of "mug shots.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1979121960207426035)  2025-10-17T09:47Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"@Monie625 @RepFine Mixed feelings on Shakira law"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1979393555648123376)  2025-10-18T03:46Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"#OTD Oct [--] [----] David Greenglass pleaded guilty to espionage for knowingly passing US atomic bomb secrets to Soviet spies Julius & Ethel Rosenberg who were later convicted and executed. Greenglass was sentenced to [--] years in prison but was released after [--] 1/2 years"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1979491242900889640)  2025-10-18T10:14Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"OTD Oct [--] [----] Lotte Lenya born. Best remembered as Col. Rosa Klebb and her choices in footwear in From Russia with Love and some German play"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1979491369044378056)  2025-10-18T10:14Z 21.4K followers, 16.8K engagements


"OCT [--] 1942: A 4-man team of SOE trained Norwegian commandos parachuted into German-occupied Norway to pave the way for a raid on a heavy water plant crucial to Germany's atomic weapons program. #Operation_Grouse #SOE #WW2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1979491979743392226)  2025-10-18T10:17Z 21.4K followers, [----] engagements


"WHO WORE IT BETTER Jeffrey Epstein (points for drama) Stephen Ward (points for hair) I'm a terrible person and certainly going to hell for this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1979888862513213764)  2025-10-19T12:34Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"ITS TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS FANCY-PANTSY EDITION The Grand Havana Room at [---] 5th Ave owned by Jared Kushner is where Paul Manafort and Trump campaign guy Gates met with suspected GRU officer Konstantin Viktorovich Kilimnik"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1980024585564066225)  2025-10-19T21:33Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"ITS TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS FANCY-PANTSY EDITION Fancy-fancy fashion designer Main Rousseau Bocher aka Mainbocher was an Army intelligence officer during WWI. During WWII he designed the uniforms for the WAVES"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1980025747013058797)  2025-10-19T21:38Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"ITS TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS FANCY-PANTSY EDITION Ridgway Brewster Knight co-founder of Frederick S. Wildman early importer of French wine to NYC held a top spot at Cartier and was one of [--] Apostles stationed in North Africa during WWII and critical to Operation Torch"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1980026721102668142)  2025-10-19T21:42Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"ITS TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS FANCY-PANTSY EDITION Hana Koecher part of the Karl and Hana StB husband and wife swinging spy team worked at Harry Winston as a diamond grader then opened her own business as cover for espionage"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1980027192026464725)  2025-10-19T21:44Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"ITS TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS FANCY-PANTSY EDITION OSS veteran Prince Serge Obolensky is reputed to have single-handedly brought the Bloody Mary to America. Designed roof garden venue of St Regis"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1980028314443247776)  2025-10-19T21:48Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"ITS TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS FANCY-PANTSY EDITION Melinda Maclean wife of Cambridge Spy Ring's Donald Maclean made her exfiltration to USSR in a bright blue Schiaparelli coat as one does. Then started affair with Philby in Moscow also as one does"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1980030224910999863)  2025-10-19T21:56Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"ITS TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS FANCY-PANTSY EDITION Glenn Bernbaum who later opened uber snooty restaurant Mortimers. Worked psy-ops in military intelligence in Germany during early Cold War"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1980031223935504694)  2025-10-19T22:00Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"ITS TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS FANCY-PANTSY EDITION Dozens of rich guys from the New York Yacht Club volunteered their big-ass boats to the war effort during WWI"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1980031457889267973)  2025-10-19T22:01Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"ITS TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS FANCY-PANTSY EDITION Vincent Astor put the resources of his enormous fortune for use by American and British intelligence including his homes yachts and hotels like the St Regis"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1980031605789053322)  2025-10-19T22:01Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"ITS TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS FANCY-PANTSY EDITION Bill Blass former member of the Ghost Army lived at [---] East 57th Street in NYC. The same building where Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe once lived"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1980031928184311831)  2025-10-19T22:02Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"ITS TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS FANCY-PANTSY EDITION Anna Chapman's $2300 Chanel bag - [----] Cruise Collection - was perfect concealment for Alfa Range Extender - Model AWUS036H with [--] inch antenna expanding Wi-Fi hot spot to communicate with handler in passing vehicle"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1980032414807474276)  2025-10-19T22:04Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"IT'S TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS FANCY-PANTSY EDITION Although Coco Chanel had super sketchy scumbag WWII history the guy who would become president of Chanel Inc H. Gregory Thomas served in the OSS and later at CIA's front org Free Europe Committee/Radio Free Europe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1980033624398299307)  2025-10-19T22:09Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"IT'S TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS FANCY-PANTSY EDITION Nazi spy Gerhard Westrick who was working under cover at Texaco headquarters gave a lavish party for business leaders at the Waldorf Astoria hotel immediately following the fall of Paris. The event was paid for by Texaco"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1980033834352890046)  2025-10-19T22:10Z 21.4K followers, [----] engagements


"@DADiClementi Abel Meeropol also wrote Strange Fruit which was a hit for Billie Holiday. And weirdly Apples Peaches and Cherries for Peggy Lee (under name Lewis Allan). He was a public school teacher by profession"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1980061359615205655)  2025-10-19T23:59Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"In the urban hellscape of NYC street venders on Canal Street How long has this been going on WATCH: A huge group of African illegal immigrants are operating a black market on the corner of Broadway and Canal St in New York City. The entire sidewalk is filled with illegals who state they are from Senegal and I watched as they fled police. This corner looks exactly https://t.co/wdIJO1oVZV WATCH: A huge group of African illegal immigrants are operating a black market on the corner of Broadway and Canal St in New York City. The entire sidewalk is filled with illegals who state they are from"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1980106296725590222)  2025-10-20T02:58Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"@evenbev @washingtonpost @bstarrreports Uh when he demolished Bonwit Teller he promised priceless art deco friezes to the Met. Nope. He had work crews take a jackhammer to them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1980391622367215627)  2025-10-20T21:52Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"@kingsepp @SaveAmericaNew I believe it would have been called "Colony of Kenya" at the time. People just aren't good at their jobs these days. The KGB was meticulous in its production of disinformation. And they didn't have any fancy fancy photoshop software. I blame video games and TV"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1980393802960683104)  2025-10-20T22:00Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"@evenbev @washingtonpost @bstarrreports Indeed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1980400717421768932)  2025-10-20T22:28Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"Jennifer Lawrence has entered the criminally under-appreciated genre of "Writers Behaving Badly" with Die My Love." Included are Sunset Boulevard The Shining and Wonder Boys"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1980411383125832018)  2025-10-20T23:10Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"@philip_hal20089 @DADiClementi FWIW Monty Woolley worked in what would become known as psy-ops during WWI. Early intelligence version"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1980479170963730655)  2025-10-21T03:40Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"@PeterMoskos No. Needle Park (as depicted in movie and street lore) was Verdi Square at [--] and Broadway. There was a Needle Park annex at Sherman Sq. [--] and Broadway. Opinions differ and reverse the order but I'm always right. So there's that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1980488579840373246)  2025-10-21T04:17Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"@PeterMoskos I vividly remember that. It was a test of the theory that "good chases out bad." Small things like toy sailboats in the fountain and hotdogs and big things like Fashion Week and movies. The theory turned out to be true in practice in this instance"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1980494483625243110)  2025-10-21T04:40Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"OTD OCT [--] [----] Hans Joachim Geyer died. Pulp fiction writer turned Ghelen Spy turned double agent flies to East Germany. Wrote under name Henry Troll"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1980567478494281757)  2025-10-21T09:30Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"OTD Oct. [--] [----] rocket designer Wernher von Braun and his team were transferred from the U.S. Army to the newly created National Aeronautics and Space Administration"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1980567705120854149)  2025-10-21T09:31Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"#ODT Oct [--] [----] former Air Force MSgt Walter Perkins arrested in Florida as he boarded flight with more than [---] pages of Air Force & DIA classified documents in a briefcase he planned to deliver to Soviet GRU officers in Mexico. He was convicted and sentenced to prison"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1980569178823356533)  2025-10-21T09:37Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"OTD Oct [--] [----]. This is the exact date when inventor Dr. Emmett Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) and Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) journey back in time to [----] in a time-traveling DeLorean automobile in the classic film Back to the Future"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1980569760065814862)  2025-10-21T09:40Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"A picture I took during construction of the new JP Morgan Chase headquarters"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1980773192416281050)  2025-10-21T23:08Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"Fun Fact: The new JP Morgan Chase headquarters was the site of the Hotel Marguery. Fancy fancy at turn of century. And home to ONI chief Fayette Spencer Eddy. 10-rooms for a whopping $6k annually. [--] to [--] rooms for $15k annually. Ritz Carlton restaurant on ground floor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1980838507376509187)  2025-10-22T03:27Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"BEST USE OF A THEREMIN IN A ROCK SONG A) Whole Lotta Love -- Led Zeppelin B) Good Vibrations (modified "electro-theremin") -- Beach Boys"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1980940385129042021)  2025-10-22T10:12Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"@lorikramer58 @JackSussek According to a brilliant new book due out next year by an incredibly charming author a buyer for Bonwit Teller worked with ONI during WWI while on a buying trip to the Far East"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1981065215539130562)  2025-10-22T18:28Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"@NY_Scoop @champagnesucks Street venders in NYC date back nearly [---] years. It's one of the city's oldest traditions. Construction sites downtown still uncover oyster shells from more than a century ago"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1981096290865025239)  2025-10-22T20:32Z 21.4K followers, [----] engagements


"@NY_Scoop @champagnesucks On the off chance you're a human being: The Dutch arrived in the 1620s and chartered the city a few years later. By the 1660s the Brits arrived and took it over from the Dutch pretty peacefully. That lasted until the 1770s when the city was in play between Patriots and Brits"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1981100968818147360)  2025-10-22T20:50Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"@BlackMortadella @dcboyisangry I've heard stories about Palmer. Apparently he was a big ole' science fiction nerd. Wrote fanboy letters to his favorite authors. Naturally the authors couldn't believe a cool guy read their books"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1981104632454897806)  2025-10-22T21:05Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"@NY_Scoop @NycQuint @champagnesucks Same history lesson. NYC is [---] years old. The Dutch arrived in the 1620s and chartered the city a few years later. By the 1660s the Brits arrived and took it over from the Dutch pretty peacefully. That lasted until the 1770s when the city was in play between Patriots and Brits"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1981114686209998984)  2025-10-22T21:45Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"@NY_Scoop @NycQuint @champagnesucks Dutch map of NYC dated 1639"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1981115624689717621)  2025-10-22T21:49Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"@NycQuint @NY_Scoop @champagnesucks Your ignorance is astounding. The Brits took it over in 1660s renamed it for the Duke of York King Charles II's brother who had been granted the territory. Dutch made half-hearted attempt to regain it in the 1670s renamed it New Orange but that failed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1981118396814279028)  2025-10-22T22:00Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"@NoahCRothman Pierre L'Enfant's initial plans had Versailles-like "pleasure grounds" surround the Executive Mansion. Jefferson thought it too aristocratic/European and unbecoming the new nation so he had Pennsylvania Ave divide it. On one side the White House on the other Lafayette Square"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1981211606131626091)  2025-10-23T04:10Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"Pierre L'Enfant's original plans had Versailles-like "pleasure grounds" surround the Executive Mansion. Jefferson thought it too aristocratic and unbecoming the new nation so he had Pennsylvania Ave divide it. On one side the White House on the other Lafayette Square"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1981212075113533684)  2025-10-23T04:12Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"The Presidential Emergency Operations Center (PEOC) located under what was the East Wing is gonna be really something"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1981228924530221094)  2025-10-23T05:19Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"Oct [--] [----] the New York Sunday News reports Kim Philby is Soviet spy. Philby holds convincing press conference denying the charge"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1981293761289244832)  2025-10-23T09:36Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"@klaasm67 The Happy Hooker was ghost written by Robin Moore (whom I met back in the day). He had a very very odd career. He also wrote The Green Berets The French Connection and the lyrics to the Ballad of the Green Berets. Harvard pal of Robert Kennedy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1981297737782939675)  2025-10-23T09:52Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"@ClassicSpyChic No Way Out starring Brad Pitt"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1981430036612993466)  2025-10-23T18:38Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"Oct [--] [----] Soviet spy William Remington indicted. Convicted of perjury. Murdered in prison"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1981660934591693262)  2025-10-24T09:55Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"Oct [------] SOE radio operator Brian Stonehouse arrested in Vichy France. Survived concentration camp to become fashion illustrator"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1981661192318845186)  2025-10-24T09:57Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"Wall Street included a notorious scumbag as technical advisor whom Stone put in a key scene. Stone apparently thought the guy was genuine. @TheCinesthetic Wall Street is revered by all finance bros (self included) despite being basically a protest movie about everything wrong with Wall Street. https://t.co/L1BzKQph20 @TheCinesthetic Wall Street is revered by all finance bros (self included) despite being basically a protest movie about everything wrong with Wall Street. https://t.co/L1BzKQph20"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1981986145467588769)  2025-10-25T07:28Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"Oct [------] William Remington born. Identified as low level spy by Elizabeth Bentley. Indicted for perjury and later murdered in prison"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1982013668746281224)  2025-10-25T09:17Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"@BRASSCITYSTEVE @usmom3781 Fred"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1982062117613170804)  2025-10-25T12:30Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"@BRASSCITYSTEVE @usmom3781 Cohn came to Donald via Fred. They did not as some report meet by chance at Cassini's Le Club"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1982081659924091154)  2025-10-25T13:47Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"ITS TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS FRONT ORGANIZATION EDITION Founded in [----] Maria Butinas gun rights group the Right to Bear Arms -- was largely ineffective in changing Russian gun laws but somehow got the attention of the NRA. Also copyeditors are essential"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1982237116798025758)  2025-10-26T00:05Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"ITS TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS FRONT ORGANIZATION EDITION Brit intelligence heavily promoted the movie Casablanca through its false flag front organization France Forever which was conveniently located in same building as BSC in NYC"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1982238102203633717)  2025-10-26T00:09Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"ITS TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS FRONT ORGANIZATION EDITION The World Peace Council was the largest and most important of Soviet front groups. Together with the International Department of the Central Committee the KGB funneled money to these organizations"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1982238602474947066)  2025-10-26T00:11Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"ITS TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS FRONT ORGANIZATION EDITION In [----] the Soviet spent an estimated $78 million on front organizations including the World Peace Esperanto Movement which Im guessing was not a winner"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1982238738362118411)  2025-10-26T00:11Z 21.4K followers, [----] engagements


"ITS TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS FRONT ORGANIZATION EDITION During World War I German intelligence recruited David Lamar Wolf of Wall Street to manage bogus union to slow shipments of arms to Europe. He mostly stole the money to support a lifestyle of swagger and swank"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1982239021288821212)  2025-10-26T00:13Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"ITS TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS FRONT ORGANIZATION EDITION WWI German spymaster Rintelen organized the fake Labors National Peace Council (LNPC) and booked Carnegie Hall for a rally that included a bunch of unsuspecting speakers and signers of petition"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1982239363942523106)  2025-10-26T00:14Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"ITS TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS FRONT ORGANIZATION EDITION Radio Free Europe a CIA project was initial covertly funded through the National Committee for a Free Europe. Overt funding by Congress began in the early 1970s when CIA involvement was revealed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1982239705543401828)  2025-10-26T00:15Z 21.4K followers, [----] engagements


"ITS TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS FRONT ORGANIZATION EDITION The promotion of anti-nuke peace movement orgs backfired for Soviets when similar groups spontaneously sprouted up on the other side of the Berlin Wall. Locals not thrilled with SS-20 missiles in East Germany"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1982240139951608150)  2025-10-26T00:17Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"ITS TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS FRONT ORGANIZATION EDITION The American League Against Fascism was a Soviet front organization. It was Soviet spy Elizabeth Bentleys first sustained contact with NKVD. They also put out a nifty newsletter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1982240561634381868)  2025-10-26T00:19Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"ITS TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS FRONT ORGANIZATION EDITION Italy's OVRA had [--] fascist front orgs at [---] Lafayette St in NYC: Natl Committee of the Italian American Democratic Org and Assoc of Italian Fascists Abroad. [---] later home to EC Comics"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1982242934960377926)  2025-10-26T00:28Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"BUY THIS BOOK. LEARN COOL SPY STUFF. 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/1982243094289355100)  2025-10-26T00:29Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"@PriscillasGurl Yeah. A bunch of far left radicals"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1982264072805474471)  2025-10-26T01:52Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"Oct [--] [----] German spy George Traugott Breeckow aka Reginald Rowland executed in Tower of London. Said to have died of heart attack before bullets entered his chest"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1982413597046415584)  2025-10-26T11:46Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"@Flicky0ps Trad wife"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1982416476645769601)  2025-10-26T11:58Z 21.4K followers, 18.6K engagements


"Hot Take: Tony Curtis phoned in his performance in Rosemary's Baby"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1982416958009323861)  2025-10-26T12:00Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"NYC Trad Wives (those who know know)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1982545135415271765)  2025-10-26T20:29Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"@LaurenDownSouth @MemezBased @Flicky0ps Prior to the 1920s US was largely agricultural -- so women were either cleaning something feeding something or killing something. A lot of tough physical labor. The halcyon days most often referenced were 1950s to 1970s. A very thin slice of history"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1982554510611652632)  2025-10-26T21:06Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"ITS TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS BOOZE EDITION Elizabeth Bentleys apartment on Barrow Street in NYC was perfect spy nest. Accessible with closed alley it was opposite read entrance to former speakeasy Chumleys with multiple entrances"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1982571580778860885)  2025-10-26T22:14Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"ITS TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS BOOZE EDITION OSS veteran Prince Serge Obolensky is reputed to have imported Fernand Pete Petiot from New York Bar (later Harrys) in Paris along with the Bloody Mary to US. First called it Red Snapper to not offend guest of St Regis"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1982573772533350567)  2025-10-26T22:23Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"ITS TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS BOOZE EDITION Chris Blackwell son of Blanche Blackwell Ian Fleming's mistress & muse was founder of Island Records worked as a gopher on Dr. No. Today makes excellent rum. James Bond agrees"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1982574149899063398)  2025-10-26T22:24Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"ITS TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS BOOZE EDITION In Fleming's novels James Bond consumes a total of [---] drinks: Champagne [--] times/ vodka martini [--] times. His favorites: Taittinger Veuve Clicquot Veuve Clicquot Ros Pommery Bollinger and of course Dom Perignon. Not Shaken"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1982574781368291471)  2025-10-26T22:27Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"ITS TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS BOOZE EDITION Bootlegger and Schenley chief Lewis Rosenstiel's ex-wife Susan was the original source for J. Edgar Hoover in feather boa and a dress. His daughter Louise married Sidney Frank. So same family also responsible for Jgermeister"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1982576571107156463)  2025-10-26T22:34Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"ITS TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS BOOZE EDITION Peter Sichel former CIA officer in Berlin and Hong Kong and creator of the Blue Nun wine brand is referenced in the Beastie Boys Blue Nun track on the album Check Your Head. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=LCojgK3An1I https://www.youtube.com/watchv=LCojgK3An1I"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1982576806126567482)  2025-10-26T22:35Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"ITS TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS BOOZE EDITION Legendary NYC wine guy merchant and writer Frank Musselman Schoonmaker was an early recruit to OSS. He served in Span and received a Bronze Star"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1982578199306567682)  2025-10-26T22:40Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"OTD Oct [------] #Edward_Lee_Howard born. Disgraced #CIA officer who defected to USSR. Died in dacha [----]. Cause of death: Stairs. Vicious vicious stairs with gravity an accomplice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1982743163715678490)  2025-10-27T09:36Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"#OTD April [--] 1964: DEFSMAC a joint NSA-DIA-NGA organization established. The Defense Special Missile & Astronautics (Aerospace after 2002) Center coordinates the collection of intelligence info from foreign missiles and satellites"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1982743903938998516)  2025-10-27T09:39Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"@dcboyisangry @watchesofespion Rolexes are hot items among finance bros these days. A false scarcity created by a secondary market that pumps the price. He may have gotten burned in the secondary market"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1982746123799515544)  2025-10-27T09:48Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"@Ridge_Cook Cowboy with a Tiffany & Co. bowie knife"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1982922783031210311)  2025-10-27T21:30Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"@jnbarrett @lwoodlwoodl @mehdirhasan Rosie the Riveter was adapted from a song by an African American group -- the Four Vagabonds. 🎶🎶Keeps a sharp lookout for sabotage Sitting up there on the fuselage That little frail can do more than a male can do Rosie the riveter 🎶🎶 https://www.youtube.com/watchv=EErJupzj2hw https://www.youtube.com/watchv=EErJupzj2hw"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1983022159262863533)  2025-10-28T04:05Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"@Feintglow To be honest he's a very good actor. You might enjoy Lincoln Lawyer. Having spent a fair amount of time around actors I can safely say many have personal quirks. That's fine all that matters is the work"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1983283526767374503)  2025-10-28T21:23Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"@DADiClementi Cut him some slack he's a very good actor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1983295730925412467)  2025-10-28T22:12Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"@Gladwell @CuyahogaLib How about this: Attempt to respect a long held tradition of signed copies and respect the readers who pay good money for the book and place some value on the author's signature"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1983318117288980849)  2025-10-28T23:41Z 21.4K followers, [----] engagements


"@gabebassin @JohnLeFevre Unemployment rate in NYC is closer to 50% if you count infants free loading toddlers and Green-Wood Cemetery"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1983425929021141419)  2025-10-29T06:49Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"@CynicalPublius A parable that tells me you don't understand New York City its inhabitants or antiques"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1983492402498166802)  2025-10-29T11:13Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"ITS TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS BEFORE THEY WERE SPIES EDITION John "Frenchy" Grombach who headed the small intel organization called The Pond got his start as a bouncer in a New Orleans house of ill repute as a teenager. Not confirmed if it was House of the Rising Sun"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1983668120788332719)  2025-10-29T22:51Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"ITS TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS BEFORE THEY WERE SPIES EDITION Ernest Cuneo OSS officer and liaison between the OSS BSC FBI and FDR played two seasons in the NFL for the NFL for the Orange Tornadoes/Newark Tornadoes and the Brooklyn Dodgers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1983669966353396047)  2025-10-29T22:59Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"ITS TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS BEFORE THEY WERE SPIES EDITION Toto Koopman fashion model and Schiaparelli muse prior to working with Italian Underground during WWII"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1983670423725437437)  2025-10-29T23:00Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"ITS TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS BEFORE THEY WERE SPIES EDITION Meyer Lansky worked as accountant financial advisor and consultant before cooperating with ONI during WWII"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1983671992894337529)  2025-10-29T23:07Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"TOO OBSCURE TO MATTER CIA officer Miles Copeland Jr. helped create Waddingtons board game The Game of Nations loosely based on his book by the same name"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1983685340968972648)  2025-10-30T00:00Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"@BlackMortadella According to his agreement with US govt. he was not to return to America.ever. He found a loophole. After his death in Italy the body was shipped back to be buried in Queens. Note: Spelling was his original family name"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1983692825234698309)  2025-10-30T00:29Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"OTD Oct [--] [----] Panic and publicity erupt around Orson Welless The War of the Worlds"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1983829930833334676)  2025-10-30T09:34Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"@AllThingsNatSec Likely a hurricane. He seems to have a fascination with nuclear weapons"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1983874146900619582)  2025-10-30T12:30Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"@LaurenDownSouth I never did a deep dive into the murder. He did have bizarre politics. He was not happy when Wilkie lost election"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1984033238751535574)  2025-10-30T23:02Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"TOO OBSCURE TO MATTER The Military Intelligence Division in NYC chief Capt. John B. Trevor believed immigrants posed threat to city after WWI. Requested [-----] troops & Mobile Machinegun Battalions. Received a few Springfield rifles. Architect of Immigration Act of 1924"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1984055743302230209)  2025-10-31T00:32Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"OTD Oct [------] #Herbert_O_Yardley's #American_Black_Chamber #code_breaking operation officially shuts down after decade of "reading mail.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1984207912743637316)  2025-10-31T10:36Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"OTD Oct [------] Stalin's body removed from Lenin's tomb-buried at Kremlin Wall. #DeStaliinization better view more tourist foot traffic"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1984208700706562466)  2025-10-31T10:39Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"ITS TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS HALLOWEEN SPY SCARES Lev Theremin genius Russian inventor of instrument & The Thing that bugged U.S. Embassy in Moscow also invented the instrument that bears his name and became a staple in horror film soundtracks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1984272523534704803)  2025-10-31T14:53Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"ITS TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS HALLOWEEN SPY SCARES 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/1984273749085155451)  2025-10-31T14:58Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"@DADiClementi OSS recruited Mab Wilson former Vogue editor with stints at Bergdorf Goodman Saks Fifth Avenue under the cover of fashion attache at the US embassy in Stockholm. Worked with Danish resistance. Daughter Alexandra Moltke Isles was Victoria Winters on TV show Dark Shadows"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1984278257198670068)  2025-10-31T15:16Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"OSS recruited Mab Wilson former Vogue editor with stints at Bergdorf Saks etc under the cover of fashion attache at the US embassy in Stockholm. Worked with Danish resistance. Daughter is Alexandra Moltke Isles who played Victoria Winters on TV show Dark Shadows"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1984279550885515482)  2025-10-31T15:21Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"For when you're deployed to those fancy fancy conflict zones. Wear a Patek raise the rent https://t.co/otvsTNgVnY Wear a Patek raise the rent https://t.co/otvsTNgVnY"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1984440675232886842)  2025-11-01T02:01Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"@thrillsseeker It's a long enduring luxury brand. When FDR prepared gifts for the young Dalai Lama in the 1940s to be presented by OSS officers Brooke Dolan and Ilia Tolstoy he included a Patek watch ref [---] which the Dalai Lama kept"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1984454411775623188)  2025-11-01T02:56Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"@thrillsseeker You won. Watches are the new wardrobes. Tech and finance bros will buy a watch over a suit. Nobody looks at your tie they look at the watch"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1984458586819313960)  2025-11-01T03:12Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"OTD Nov [-----] #Gabriele_Gast starts work at W. Germany's BND. Already recruited/seduced by E Germany #Markus_Wolf/#Stasi #Romeo_spy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1984549717246636307)  2025-11-01T09:14Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"OTD Nov [--] [----] #Geoffrey_Prime #Soviet_spy buried in #GCHQ receives promotion to section head. #fuckthatguy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1984549851791548646)  2025-11-01T09:15Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"OTD Nov [--] [----] #Atomic_Spy #Theodore_Hall died. Soviet spy who worked on #Manhattan_Project as physicist"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1984550347013017875)  2025-11-01T09:17Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"@PeterMoskos I do appreciate the old-fashioned slickness of the Cuomo campaign. Something out of a Ross Thomas novel"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1984685699547779136)  2025-11-01T18:15Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"@Ridge_Cook The 1920s had its own style. Ask Tex https://www.youtube.com/watchv=59uqEfvTgms https://www.youtube.com/watchv=59uqEfvTgms"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1984802417574117700)  2025-11-02T01:59Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"ITS TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS F. SCOTT AND GATSBY EDITION JAZZY The Maxfield Parrish portrait of King Cole hung in Times Square Knickerbocker hotel makes appearance in This Side of Paradise. Hotel home to multiple spy operations even more when it landed at St Regis"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1984805411078156528)  2025-11-02T02:11Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"OTD Nov [--] [----] #Vladimir_Putin posthumously honors US-born #GRU #Atomic_Spy #George_Koval with Hero of the Russia Federation medal"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1984954711779443081)  2025-11-02T12:04Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"This is good spin. Very credible. However.I'd point out that not all students require $40k education. Per law every kid entitled to an education regardless of circumstances such as special needs incarceration or mental health problems. 🚨 New York City's budget is $110 Billion. It's the biggest budget in the country by far. It spends $40000 per student to send them to school and less than half of the kids in elementary school are proficient in math and reading. https://t.co/jFlBSI8XMu 🚨 New York City's budget is $110 Billion. It's the biggest budget in the country by far. It spends $40000"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1984983832336986255)  2025-11-02T13:59Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"A Yank here: My research has led me to conclude those villages are tidy hellscapes of murder mayhem and theremin music. I actually live in a small English village. Its total codswallop what @elonmusk is saying. Were not hobbits under siege were ordinary people - how rude to patronise us like this. Its fear-mongering dressed up as folklore. https://t.co/okDyrKqSD0 I actually live in a small English village. Its total codswallop what @elonmusk is saying. Were not hobbits under siege were ordinary people - how rude to patronise us like this. Its fear-mongering dressed up as folklore."  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1985199647648780619)  2025-11-03T04:17Z 21.4K followers, [----] engagements


"@BlackMortadella I agree and in a wide range of work. Leaving Las Vegas to Gone in [--] Seconds"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1985282427150098671)  2025-11-03T09:46Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"@BlackMortadella I've seen Abel around. Guy is very old or looks very old. Not really a tough guy though his family had a trash collection business upstate (if memory serves)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1985284562952356028)  2025-11-03T09:54Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"@BlackMortadella Should be "Murray Hill." To his credit he hasn't "bubbled himself." Even non-movie stars try to live in bubbles these days in NYC"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1985289645093978216)  2025-11-03T10:15Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"@BlackMortadella My fruit guy from Middle East did sell me some bad blueberries the other day. So there's that. But he let me exchange them later in the day. So there's that too"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1985297620005261620)  2025-11-03T10:46Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"@debjshaw According to the internets he's still alive now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1985354790101000387)  2025-11-03T14:34Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"@RYP__ LET'S ALL DANCE THE CHARLESTON https://www.youtube.com/watchv=gMfad-1A5Mg https://www.youtube.com/watchv=gMfad-1A5Mg"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1985383455090491413)  2025-11-03T16:27Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"TOO OBSCURE TO MATTER Following the release of Captain America comic in [----] which featured Cap punching out Hitler the comic company was flooded with hate mail and death threats. Mayor La Guardia who liked the comic provided police protection for creators and offices"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1985389956307804453)  2025-11-03T16:53Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"@roughtradeX TBH the party really misrepresents Palm Beach which can be quite snooty-patootie though many of the residents have excellent taste. That said I object to the place on grounds of pastels and it's not reachable by subway"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1985481566319948194)  2025-11-03T22:57Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"@lorikramer58 @roughtradeX Pastel's are the devil's palette. I stand by my observation that a good many Palm Beach denizens are pretty sophisticated in terms of taste intellect etc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1985598713050644686)  2025-11-04T06:43Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"OTD Nov [--] [----] #Bohdan_Stashynsky born KGB assassin who murdered Ukrainian nationalists Lev Rebetand Stepan Bandera. Fun Fact: KGB assassin #Bohdan_Stashynsky used very James Bond weapon for assassins. Special cyanide poison mist gun"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1985663232695005262)  2025-11-04T10:59Z 21.4K followers, [----] engagements


"OTD Nov [--] [----] Soviet forces invade Budapest and areas of Hungary in attempt to put down uprising. More than [----] Hungarians killed and [------] refugees fled the country"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1985663760405565736)  2025-11-04T11:01Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"In the urban hellscape of NYC we were waiting for Ted to weigh in on a local election. Rest easy fellow New Yorkers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1985712136497099260)  2025-11-04T14:14Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"https://www.youtube.com/watchv=mFIwHcP6xXs Nearly a million New Yorkers ready to flee NYC if Mamdani becomes mayor possibly igniting mass exodus: poll https://t.co/ztUU4GqdE0 https://t.co/PNTtAfkrD6 https://www.youtube.com/watchv=mFIwHcP6xXs Nearly a million New Yorkers ready to flee NYC if Mamdani becomes mayor possibly igniting mass exodus: poll https://t.co/ztUU4GqdE0 https://t.co/PNTtAfkrD6"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1985730742979109304)  2025-11-04T15:27Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"The primary job of NYC mayor is to give [--] million New Yorkers someone to blame for everything. It's been that way since Peter Stuyvesant that ineffectual peg legged Brit capitulating bastard. So what has Mamdani done as mayor recently"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1985975043080237246)  2025-11-05T07:38Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"OTD Nov [--] [----] #Emperor_Hirohito approved plan for attack on Pearl Harbor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1986019037504291293)  2025-11-05T10:33Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"OTD Nov [--] [----] #Gunpowder_Plotdate fail. Conspirators foiled in attempt to blow up King James I and the Parliament. Plan B: Let's make some masks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1986019602879705183)  2025-11-05T10:35Z 21.4K followers, [----] engagements


"OTD Nov [--] (disputed) [----] Christmas come early for Brit intelligence. Anonymous package soon called #Oslo_Report left at embassy in Oslo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1986019709335044410)  2025-11-05T10:36Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"@BlackMortadella For one thing he own the copyrights to the largest collection of Elvis photos in existence. If you wanted to run an Elvis photo he was the guy to see"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1986038561775497360)  2025-11-05T11:51Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"@DrHelenFry Courtesy Marks & Spencer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1986153944230297974)  2025-11-05T19:29Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"@Ridge_Cook"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1986177681474322452)  2025-11-05T21:03Z 21.4K followers, [--] engagements


"OTD Nov [--] [----] Polish Colonel Ryszard Kuklinski fails to show up for work. Exfiltrated from Poland with wife and [--] sons by CIA"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1986393116580983135)  2025-11-06T11:19Z 21.4K followers, [----] engagements


"OTD Nov [--] [----] CIA asset #Valery_Martynov lured to Moscow as part of "honor guard" accompanying re-defector Yurchenko. Promptly arrested"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1986393387788910887)  2025-11-06T11:21Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"OTD Nov. [--] [----] re-defector #Vitaly_Yurchenko returns to Moscow. Claims he was kidnapped from Vatican by #CIA"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1986393522459513255)  2025-11-06T11:21Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"OTD Nov. [-----] #German_spy #Karl_Lody who spoke with credible U.S. accent & carried US passport executed in #Tower_of_London"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1986393875032989780)  2025-11-06T11:22Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements


"The F train before Mamdani New York resident shows what is was like on the Subway after it was announced Zohran Mamdani won the election Everyone is completely silent and in shock processing what just happened Reality is setting in. New York didnt vote for Mamdani a bunch of foreign immigrants did https://t.co/ZDX3t0K13E New York resident shows what is was like on the Subway after it was announced Zohran Mamdani won the election Everyone is completely silent and in shock processing what just happened Reality is setting in. New York didnt vote for Mamdani a bunch of foreign immigrants did"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SpiesVespers/status/1986403746281365559)  2025-11-06T12:02Z 21.4K followers, [---] engagements

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