The Trial of Christine Keeler (2020) examines the explosive sex, spies, and lies scandal that rocked 1960s Britain. The Profumo Affair is not the only espionage operation to pit London against Washington, discredit a Prime Minister, or shake the Royal family to its core though. SPYSCAPE exposes seven of the most shocking espionage affairs in Britain’s history.
A former GCHQ cyber spy has designed an Escape Room based on real-life techniques used by British code and cipher spooks. Mission Intercept isn’t the only spy challenge around, but it is among the best. Join SPYSCAPE’s team as we rank the top British and North American espionage Escape Rooms.
We believe there’s a superhero in each of us - so we have launched our True Superheroes awards to celebrate people who’ve overcome adversity, made amazing contributions to society, and inspired others to do the same. This week we’re highlighting nominees from the world of music - in the coming months we’ll highlight others from sport, art, design, tech and many other fields.
Eye-spy MI
MI5, the British spy agency that protects the UK against threats to national security, finally joined Instagram in 2021, a giant leap for a century-old agency that's only existed officially since 1989. Here are 10 tantalizing secrets SPYSCAPE dug up while sifting through MI5’s social media account.
American and British spies often team up during war, peacetime, and even as recruiters. Ex-CIA case officer Barry Broman tells our True Spies podcast about his time as a junior operative working with a suave MI6 officer. Their job was to bring a high-ranking Communist over to the West, but first they’d have to get inside the enemy’s head to make an offer he couldn't refuse.
Emma Hughes was a 23-year-old in a lowly job at a London magazine when an ad popped up on her screen advertising MI5 intelligence roles - spy jobs, in other words. She sent off an online application as a lark and forgot about it until the spy agency contacted her. That’s when Emma got spooked.
The British government was so worried about the MI5 exposé Spycatcher they banned Peter Wright’s autobiography back in 1987 - and they were still blocking requests for files on the Spycatcher affair 35 years later. So what’s the UK so concerned about? SPYSCAPE checks out the surprisingly long list of censored and banned spy books UK and American officials want to stop you from reading.
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