Spy stories
Spies work where nobody looks. These stories cover the embassies, safe houses, bridges and ordinary-looking buildings where the history of espionage played out.
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At a secret scientific laboratory operating in the 'Dynamo' station,
Secret Summit Meetings in the Shadows of the Cold War
Spies in Public Service
The Swedish man who cracked Nazi Germany's code
Nazi Germany's Secret Spy Office
Palais du Bey in Oran
Rue Meftah Kouider, Oran
Mutabor
The Church of San Benito Abad in San Cristóbal de La Laguna
The historic Qasr El-Nil Bridge in Cairo
The Worcester Masonic Temple
Ionic Avenue 1
No Other
The Greenbrier Bunker: West Virginia's Secret Government Facility
The Ruined Grandeur of Castel Selva
The hillfort of the legendary Margiris
The hall where the first Protestant Bishop of Durham was born
Rivington Lane, Bolton
Nicolo Ciampini
Harlech Castle: A World Heritage fortress on the Irish Sea
Brockwell Lido: A Grade II Listed Pool in London's Herne Hill
Dulwich Road, London
Nicolo Ciampini
The largest expanse of medieval stained glass in the world
Minster Yard, York
Nicolo Ciampini
The monument that funded a palace makeover
London
Nicolo Ciampini
Tennstopet: serving journalists, artists and spies for 150+ years
The pub of prisoners and spies
Parties, duels and spy stories at Stallmästaregården
Litvinenko's grave
German counter-espionage bureau (WWII)
C bureau
Secret railway
Masking net drying facility
Garage for armored vehicles
Weapons production workshops
Swedish nuclear bomb development facility
Firearms testing facility
Explosives testing facility
Masking net's traces
Railway station goes underground
Explosives storage
Underground weapons production facility
German RadioCentral
German Legation
Identifying the poison
Death
Barnet Hospital
Getting ill at home
Boris Berezovsky's office
The assassination
The sushi place
The first attempt
Assassins' first hotel
71-73 Shaftesbury Ave, Soho, London, UK
Nik Frost
Polonium-210 processing facility
The polonium-210 birthplace
MI6 secret office (WWII)