"Identities" of top spies revealed!
The Christian Science Monitor is running a slide show on the "Top 10 Notorious Spies," related to the recent news about the discovery of accused Russian spies.
The article was brought to my attention by Eric Childress from OCLC Research, who also kindly did the leg-work for putting together a list of the WorldCat Identities for all but one of the spies on the list. Apparently Harold James Nicholson is so sneaky that he managed to escape the watchful eyes of the world's librarians.
So... if the talk of modern spies has your users asking questions about famous skulduggery, you may want to have them check out the following:
The article was brought to my attention by Eric Childress from OCLC Research, who also kindly did the leg-work for putting together a list of the WorldCat Identities for all but one of the spies on the list. Apparently Harold James Nicholson is so sneaky that he managed to escape the watchful eyes of the world's librarians.
So... if the talk of modern spies has your users asking questions about famous skulduggery, you may want to have them check out the following:
- Valerie Plame Wilson
- Aldrich Ames
- Robert Hanssen
- Ethel & Julius Rosenberg
- The Cambridge Five: Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Anthony Blunt, John Cairncross
- Josephine Baker
- Richard Sorge
- Mata Hari
