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Hardly news. A high school classmate who is now a physicist with the federal government, developed a way to insulate windows whose vibrations from interior conversations were being monitored by external lasers. That was over 15 years ago.

Today in Spy History: Francis Gary Powers Powers was exchanged for Soviet KGB Colonel William Fisher, known as "Rudolf Abel", in a well-publicized spy swap at the Glienicke Bridge in Berlin, 1962. #BridgeofSpies | : BBC

On this day #SpyHistory, British SOE agent Violette Szabo was posthumously awarded the George Cross for bravery, 1947. Violette undertook two missions in 1944,... parachuting into Occupied France to work with local Resistance groups. During her second mission, she was captured and eventually sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp where she was executed. She was only 24. The women of the SOE were among the ‘bravest of the brave’. Of 55 female agents, 12 were executed, with another 13 killed in action. Only three other women have been awarded the George Cross, all of them SOE members. One of them, Odette Sansom, described Violette Szabo as, the bravest of us all."