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SPIES ...Answers SPIES . Answers 1. Who were the leading Actors in the (1985) film ‘Spies Like Us’ Two bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for Nuclear War. Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd 2. Who was the American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission in Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident? Francis Gary Powers 3. Rudolf Abel operated as a spy in the United States from 1947 to 1957. In 1957, the defection of his assistant, Reino Häyhänen, revealed him. Abel went to trial; he received a sentence for five years in prison. But in 1962, the U.S. exchanged him for a U2 pilot and an American student. What was the name of the film staring Tom Hanks as his lawyer? Bridge of Spies 4. Name the German-born British scientist; he and his family fled Nazi persecution in Germany, they then settled in Great Britain, where he became a theoretical physicist. He eventually participated in the British effort to develop an atomic bomb. But passed top-secret information about the bomb to the Soviet Union. Klaus Fuchs 5. Melita Stedman Norwood was a British communist, civil servant, and KGB intelligence source. She is most famous for supplying the Soviet Union with state secrets concerning the development of atomic weapons from her job at the British Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association, where she worked for 40 years. A 2019 film about her was called ‘Red Joan’ who played her part? Dame Judi Dench 6. Recruited as Soviet spies while at Cambridge University in the 1930s they passed information about the UK to the Soviet Union throughout World War Two and into at least the 1950s. Former KGB controller Yuri Modin’s book title clarifies the name of all five of the Cambridge spy group: My Five Cambridge Friends: Can you name them? Burgess, Maclean, Philby, Blunt, and Cairncross 7. Who were these women? Yolande Beekman, Madeleine Damerment, Nancy Grace August Wake, Odette Sansom and Violette Szabo Female agents who served in the field for the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II 8. 1961: Five Britons accused of spying for Moscow; Three men and two women charged with plotting to pass official secrets to the Russians. The accused are: Gordon Lonsdale, Henry Houghton, Peter Kroger, his wife Helen, and Ethel Gee. What were they collectively known as? The Portland Spy Ring 9. Who was Margaretha Geertruida MacLeod, Born: 7 August 1876, Leeuwarden, Netherlands convicted of being a spy for Germany during World War I. Executed by firing squad 15 October 1917, Vincennes, France? Mata Hari 10. David John Moore Cornwell (19 October 1931 – 12 December 2020), was English with Irish citizenship. During the 1950s and 1960s, he worked for both the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). Who was he better known as? John LeCarré .
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