Tag: True Stories

People Who Look Like Me

I seem to have one of those faces that remind people of someone else. Throughout my life, people have kept telling me how I look like someone they…

American Made: Movie Review

American Made released in August 2017, starring Tom Cruise and directed by Doug Liman, is a black-comedy-thriller about a pilot who gets mixed up with the CIA and drug-smuggling, against…

Double Cross! How a British spy called Garbo saved D-Day

On the 70th anniversary of D-Day – how an amateur Spanish spy, his imaginary sub-agents and his sneaky British handlers saved D-day and pulled off the greatest espionage…

Dirty Wars – Review

Dirty Wars is an 2013 documentary by Jeremy Scahill and directed by Rick Rowley concerning the activities of the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). This is a guest post…

Le Queux: How One Crazy Spy Novelist Created MI5 and MI6

This is the astonishing story of how a prolific, hugely popular, but now almost forgotten spy novelist, William Le Queux, single-handedly caused the creation of Britain’s spy agencies. It’s the true…

Zero Dark Thirty: Movie Review

Zero Dark Thirty stars Jessica Chastain as ‘Maya’. Supporting performances from Jason Clark as ‘Dan’, the CIA’s go-to torturer, and Jennifer Ehle as ‘Jessica’, a CIA operative with a…

Veronika: a Short Story

Veronika is a short story by Graeme Shimmin.