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In the late 1960s, the US Army's 113th Military Intelligence unit used the tastiest trick in their book — making pizza deliveries — to spy on reporters and politicians, according to The New Yorker.
—Elizabeth Wolfe And Brian Ries, CNN, 9 Feb. 2023
But Republicans have accused the president of being weak, despite revelations from U.S. officials that spy balloons from China crossed U.S. airspace on three separate occasions during the Trump presidency.
—Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 8 Feb. 2023
So the Chinese launched this balloon to spy directly on the United States?
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 3 Feb. 2023
The Russians are also suspected to have previously employed beluga whales to spy on U.S. allies.
—Arkansas Online, 22 Jan. 2023
The Russians are also suspected to have previously employed beluga whales to spy on U.S. allies.
—Andrew Jeong, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Jan. 2023
The Russians are also suspected to have previously employed beluga whales to spy on U.S. allies.
—Andrew Jeong, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2023
Turkey’s acquisition of an air defense system from Russia six years ago led to Western sanctions amid fears Moscow could use the access to spy on NATO assets.
—Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2023
Plus, in recent weeks, visitors have been able to spy some vertical construction nearby and well as the installation of the 16-foot-tall figure of Te Fiti.
—Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 18 Jan. 2023
Noun
Too Dead To Die centers on Simon Cross, who used to be America’s preeminent super-spy back in the 1980s.
—Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Feb. 2023
Laced through his search for the teacher and for the secret in the Twyford books (was Twyford a spy or a smuggler?
—Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2023
His life is disrupted when Jewish officer Alfred Dreyfus is imprisoned for being a spy, and Zola became involved with the Dreyfus affair.
—Emily Burack, Town & Country, 26 Jan. 2023
Meanwhile, their pet platypus is secretly a spy foiling the evil plots of a mad scientist.
—Christian Holub, EW.com, 13 Jan. 2023
The historical drama-thriller follows a half-French, half-Vietnamese man (Hoa Xuande) who was a spy for Communist forces during the Vietnam War.
—Valerie Nome, Peoplemag, 12 Jan. 2023
Owen Hendricks is not a spy, so he is not trained to fight.
—Rachel Seo, Variety, 14 Dec. 2022
Accused of being a spy, Toth was interrogated for days by his unsmiling captors, who pressed him repeatedly about his contact with Soviet dissidents, particularly Jewish human rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky.
—Steve Marble, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2022
A lot of people had told me that, notwithstanding his denials, Herron must at some point have been a spy.
—Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2022
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