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Spook | |
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Type | job |
Interest of | • Rupert Allason • William Corson • Executive Intelligence Review • Ronald Kessler • Powerbase • David Teacher |
Subpage(s) | •Spook/Premature deaths |
Spook - Used on Wikispooks as a colloquial term for spy but with wider connotations encompassing people whose primary occupation may be in any area of industry, commerce, politics, the media etc., but who also acts as an agent/informant of the secret intelligence agencies or the security services generally. |
Spook is used on this website to mean (approximately) "spy", they employ spycraft.
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Premature deaths
- Full article: Spook/Premature deaths
- Full article: Spook/Premature deaths
Premature death is an occupational hazard of being a spook. Wikispooks currently has 69 such deaths listed.
Office Holders on Wikispooks
Name | From | To | Description |
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Edward Snowden | 2006 | 2009 | |
Erik van Sabben | 2005 | 2009 | |
Alexander Principalov | 1997 | 1992 | |
Annie Machon | August 1995 | October 1996 | |
Annie Machon | August 1993 | August 1995 | |
Dino Bellasi | 1988 | 1998 | |
Monte Overacre | 1984 | 1992 | During the very brutal CIA-led counterinsurgencies |
Robert van Roijen Jr. | 1961 | 1963 | |
Markus Wolf | 1951 | 1986 | |
Frank Steele | 1951 | 1975 | |
Wilhelm Höttl | March 1948 | 1961 | |
Raymond Leddy | 1948 | 1961 | Including as Chief of Office of Policy Coordination operations for Western Hemisphere |
Lawrence de Neufville | 1947 | 1954 | |
John Collard | 1946 | 1952 | |
Marion de Chastelain | November 1943 | 1945 | |
A.J. Ayer | 1943 | 1945 | |
Charles Wheeler | 1942 | 1947 | Helped former Nazi military personnel escape the Soviet occupation zone |
A.J. Ayer | 1941 | 1943 | |
Isaiah Berlin | 1940 | 1942 | |
Paul Dickopf | 1937 | 1944 | Also Abwehr |
Related Quotation
Page | Quote | Author | Date |
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Plausible deniability | “Intelligence officers try very hard not to get their hands dirty.” | Scott Noble | 7 July 2014 |
An official example
Name | Born | Died |
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Abu Hamza Rabia | 1960 | 30 November 2005 |
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