Month: September 2024

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— SPIES&VESPERS (@SpiesVespers) September 7, 2024

IT’S TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS! FANCY-FANCY EDITION!

Architect Philip Johnson designed stage for Father Coughlin speeches, went to Berlin via Nazi front org, then spied on Americans, and worked for Trump, including renovating the former Gulf+Western tower/Trump Int’l Hotel pic.twitter.com/bmcaaGuKl5

— SPIES&VESPERS (@SpiesVespers) September 7, 2024

IT’S TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS! FANCY-FANCY EDITION!
Keith Richards and his family once lived in Land’s End, Prospect Point, NY, the house once belonged wo Herbert Swope, a Brit intelligence operative, whose parties were said to have inspired Fitzgerald to write Gatsby’s parties pic.twitter.com/ajR2xiWSy3

— SPIES&VESPERS (@SpiesVespers) September 7, 2024

IT’S TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS! FANCY-FANCY 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. pic.twitter.com/cIbHhGK9zC

— SPIES&VESPERS (@SpiesVespers) September 7, 2024

IT’S TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS! FANCY-FANCY EDITION!

Although Coco Chanel had super sketchy 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 pic.twitter.com/RbC6acjT0L

— SPIES&VESPERS (@SpiesVespers) September 7, 2024

DOJ says Russia paid right-wing influencers to spread Russian propaganda : NPR https://t.co/XKfJLLzvWP

— Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) September 7, 2024