-- Vital secrets of Britain's first atomic submarine, the Dreadnought, and, by implication, of the entire United States navy's still-building nuclear sub fleet, were stolen by a London-based soviet spy ring, secret service agents testified today.

* 1942 – The Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) convicts 33 members of a German spy ring headed by Fritz Joubert Duquesne in the largest espionage case in United States history — the Duquesne Spy Ring.

In October 1941, Ribbentrop ’ s prestige was badly damaged by the discovery of the Soviet spy ring in Tokyo headed by Richard Sorge, who was arrested by the Japanese while in bed with the wife of General Eugen Ott, the German Ambassador.

The resulting scandal was another blow to the Foreign Office, made all the worse in that it was the Japanese who had discovered and broken up the Sorge spy ring without any German assistance.

Although Tito was formally an ally of Stalin after WWII, the Soviets had set up a spy ring in the Yugoslav party as early as 1945, giving way to an uneasy alliance.

In 1963, Philby was revealed to be a member of the spy ring now known as the Cambridge Five, the other members of which were Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt, and John Cairncross.

There, he underwent MI5 interrogation aimed at ascertaining whether he had acted as a " third man " in Burgess and Maclean's spy ring.

* 1944 – Soviet spy Richard Sorge, a half-Russian, half-German World War I veteran, is hanged by his Japanese captors along with 34 of his ring.

Shortly before the election, Menzies announced that a Soviet diplomat in Australia Vladimir Petrov, had defected, and that there was evidence of a Soviet spy ring in Australia, including members of Evatt's staff.

* January 9 – British authorities announce that they have discovered a large Soviet spy ring in London.

** A Soviet spy ring in Australia is unveiled.

* DBROCKSTARS: Iraqi spy ring recruited by the CIA shortly before the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

In World War II, Captain Duquesne ran a huge German spy ring in the United States until he was caught by the FBI in what became the biggest roundup of spies in U. S. history: the Duquesne Spy Ring.

Author Alan Gordon also writes about jesters as advisers to the king, who actually make up a super-secret spy ring that try to keep peace and control the leaders of different countries.

Portsmouth Constabulary jumped the gun and arrested one on 3 August, and not all of the 22 were in custody by the time that McKenna made his speech, but the official history regards the incident as a devastating blow to Imperial Germany which deprived them of their entire spy ring, and specifically upset the Kaiser.

The Service was instrumental in breaking up a large Soviet spy ring at the start of the 1970s, with 105 Soviet embassy staff known or suspected to be involved in intelligence activities being expelled from the country in 1971.

One of the most significant and far reaching failures was an inability to conclusively detect and apprehend the " Cambridge Five " spy ring which had formed in the inter-war years and achieved great success in penetrating the government, and the intelligence agencies themselves.

Another spy ring, the Portland Spy Ring, exposed after a tip-off by Soviet defector Michael Goleniewski, led to an extensive MI5 surveillance operation.

* Lucy spy ring — alleged to have been a British / Ultra operation to the USSR

Philby was eased out of office and quietly retired in 1953 after the defection of his friends and fellow members of the " Cambridge spy ring " Donald Duart Maclean and Guy Burgess.

In 1938, the FBI unearthed and prosecuted a Nazi spy ring, subsequently allowing Warner to produce Confessions of a Nazi Spy, with the Three Stooges short subject You Nazty Spy!

The Venona intercept shows that Julius Rosenberg ( code name LIBERAL ) was the head of this particular spy ring.

Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, vice-chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, investigated how much the Soviet spy ring helped the USSR to build their bomb.

However, due to the increasing volume of radio traffic from one-time pads ( used by the Soviets ), the Japanese began to suspect a spy ring operating.

He also served as a Nazi spy in the United States and, in 1941, he was caught by the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) in the largest espionage case in U. S. history: The Duquesne Spy Ring.

MI5 also placed a spy, Harry Newton, in the CND office.

The state's spy networks are also severely limited by cultural factors.

; he also used his allies to spy on his opponents.

Jumping on the spy bandwagon, other writers also started writing about spy fiction featuring female spies as protagonists, such as The Baroness, which has more graphic action and sex, as compared to other novels featuring male protagonists.

He has also defeated Deadpool, who looks at him as a Rock God among mercenaries and has also referred to him as " The Keith Moon of spy trade " and " The Justin Timberlake of the Cherry Pop Club ".

There were also some Children's spy novels made in the 21st century about WW2 including Henderson's Boys which was a spin off CHERUB, the same thing but based in the present day.

With the proliferation of male protagonists in the spy fiction genre, writers and book packagers also started bringing out spy fiction with a female as the protagonist.

Ben Allsop, one of England's youngest novelists, also writes spy fiction.

There is also a report from an English spy at a meeting of Scottish leaders, where they said Wallace was in France.

Though officially a citizen of Czechoslovakia, Schindler also became a spy for the Abwehr, then commanded by Admiral Wilhelm Canaris.

Lang's Dr. Mabuse films from the period also contain elements of spy thrillers, though the central character is a criminal mastermind only interested in espionage for profit.

In the summer of 1968, Tate began her next film, The Wrecking Crew ( 1969 ), a comedy in which she played Freya Carlson, an accident-prone spy, who was also a romantic interest for star Dean Martin, playing Matt Helm.

It has been theorised that the protagonist in another of Deighton's spy novels, An Expensive Place to Die ( 1967 ), also written in the first-person-anonymous narrative, is also ' Harry Palmer '; however, differences in characterisation and plotting indicate this is someone else other than Palmer.

Caine also plays the spy character Finn McMissile in the 2011 film Cars 2, though this is more in a smooth James Bond style than Palmer's downbeat, ' ordinary ' personality.

They're also concerned that Smitty might be a German spy because he's secretive.

Many writers better known in other genres like Elmore Leonard, Leigh Brackett, and Larry McMurtry have also written Western novels The genre's popularity peaked in the 1960s, due in part to the end of many pulp magazines, the popularity of televised Westerns, and the rise of the spy novel.

" In 1966, Karloff also appeared with Robert Vaughn and Stefanie Powers in the spy series The Girl from U. N. C. L. E., in the episode " The Mother Muffin Affair.

* Merian Cooper was also allegedly a spy, one who spent two years in Lubyanka.

His roles include Brutus in Julius Caesar ( 1953 ), Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel and The Desert Rats, the amoral valet turned spy in Joseph Mankiewicz's 5 Fingers, the declining actor in the first remake of A Star Is Born ( 1954 ), Captain Nemo in 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea ( also 1954 ), a small town school teacher driven insane by the effects of cortisone in Bigger Than Life ( 1956 ), a suave master spy in North by Northwest ( 1959 ), a determined explorer in Journey to the Center of the Earth ( also 1959 ), Humbert Humbert in Stanley Kubrick's Lolita ( 1962 ), a river pirate who betrays Peter O ' Toole's character in Lord Jim ( 1965 ), the evil Doctor Polidori in Frankenstein: The True Story ( 1973 ), the vampire's servant, Richard Straker, in Salem's Lot, and surreal Royal Navy Captain Hughes in Yellowbeard ( 1983 ).