[Eynstyn]

Connery's Bond
Sean Connery (center) was a Mr. Universe contestant.

Kelly Robinson (Robert Culp) & Alexander Scott (Bill Cosby) were spies in NBC's "I Spy" Here's a wav file of the theme music. (Anyone remember the preview scenes being shown right below Culp's eyes?) http://www.barbneal.com/wav/tvthemes/ispy.wav

[badidea]

and of course

[SimeyTheLimey]

Forget fiction, real life is much more interesting. I nominate:

Oleg Penkovsky A Soviet GRU agent who spied for the West during the 1950s and early 1960s. His information about Khruschev's nuclear bluffs helped avert a general nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis. He was exposed and caught. Reports about how he was executed vary, but some reports say he may have been cremated alive.

Garbo (real name, Juan Pujol Garcia). A Spainish double agent for both the Germans and the British. His disinformation helped convince the Germans that the D-Day invasion would take place in the Pas de Calais, rather than Normandy. He saved thousands, or maybe tens of thousands, of Allied lives, and quite possibly changed the course of World War II.

Two real life heroes who "saved the world" and they never had to seduce anyone to do it.

[suprz's ghost]

I always liked the black spy in the "spy VS spy mad comics......

[effgee]

mata hari.

[Warung]

Originally Posted by effgee

mata hari.

Damn, beat me to it.

[ghporter]

While I completely agree with Eynstyn's selection of fictional spys, I also have to vote for Simey's real-life spys. Plus one real one that, though he was actually dead, was extremely effective. The British planted a dead body with "interesting" information about an upcoming Allied invasion of Greece-all of it false, as the real invasion was to be in Sicily-in the sea near Spain, where German Intelligence could learn all his "secrets." This was the infamous "Man Who Never Was," and the Germans fell for it, hook, line and sinker. A brief explanation is in this Wikipedia article. Very interesting stuff.

[von Wrangell]

Raoul Wallenberg

[Kevin]

[Eynstyn]

Originally Posted by SimeyTheLimey

Forget fiction, real life is much more interesting. I nominate:

Oleg Penkovsky A Soviet GRU agent who spied for the West during the 1950s and early 1960s. His information about Khruschev's nuclear bluffs helped avert a general nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis. He was exposed and caught. Reports about how he was executed vary, but some reports say he may have been cremated alive.

Garbo (real name, Juan Pujol Garcia). A Spainish double agent for both the Germans and the British. His disinformation helped convince the Germans that the D-Day invasion would take place in the Pas de Calais, rather than Normandy. He saved thousands, or maybe tens of thousands, of Allied lives, and quite possibly changed the course of World War II.

Two real life heroes who "saved the world" and they never had to seduce anyone to do it.

So good a spy was Garbo that even though he was REALLY working for the Allies, Hitler was so impressed with his servvice to Germany that he was...

Awarded the Iron Cross

German commanders were so convinced of the existence of the depot, linked across London by a subterranean train network, that they considered a plan to send saboteurs to it blow up.

"Garbo's reports formed the backbone of all German Intelligence appreciation on which vital operational decisions were taken," wrote Harris at the end of the war in the autumn of 1945.

And praise had also been forthcoming from his Nazi commanders - he was awarded the Iron Cross for his services to Germany, with the approval of Hitler.

There were several other really surprising ones, but I'll leave them for other posters to mention.

[Eynstyn]

Originally Posted by ghporter

While I completely agree with Eynstyn's selection of fictional spys, I also have to vote for Simey's real-life spys. Plus one real one that, though he was actually dead, was extremely effective. The British planted a dead body with "interesting" information about an upcoming Allied invasion of Greece-all of it false, as the real invasion was to be in Sicily-in the sea near Spain, where German Intelligence could learn all his "secrets." This was the infamous "Man Who Never Was," and the Germans fell for it, hook, line and sinker. A brief explanation is in this Wikipedia article. Very interesting stuff.

I always got the heebie jeebies at the idea but loved it and the film. I have chosen the fiction ones to mention (and there's more of them, too) but that was a great subterfuge.

A Maj. Martin Smith, if I recall from memory.

(After checking) Not quite. Maj. Martin. No Smith.

[Eynstyn]

Originally Posted by von Wrangell

Raoul Wallenberg

Raoul Wallenberg was made an Honorary Citizen of the United States in 1981. The bill was sponsored by Representative Tom Lantos, a Hungarian Jew who as a teenager sought refuge in one of Wallenberg's safe houses. He was later made an honorary citizen of Canada in 1985, and of Israel in 1986.

I found Lantos to be a bit of a dyck. But I still voted for him.

[angelmb]

When it comes to spy, you can not beat certain british guy…

[Eynstyn]

Originally Posted by angelmb

When it comes to spy, you can not beat certain british guy…

That's Mr. Bean, innit?

[MaxPower2k3]

i like 'em both

[cjrivera]

Sydney Bristow (Jennifer Garner) on Alias - at least on the first and second seasons.

[Eynstyn]

Originally Posted by MaxPower2k3

i like 'em both

Like Betty and Veronica! Different but same.

[Eynstyn]

Originally Posted by cjrivera

Sydney Bristow (Jennifer Garner) on Alias - at least on the first and second seasons.

GREAT POST!!! I LIKE HER ALOT!!!

[Doofy]

[Eynstyn]

Originally Posted by Doofy

Had to look at the link to tell who it was.

There's a couple of Nikitas aren't there? Bridget Fonda and this one here, right?

[angelmb]

Originally Posted by Eynstyn

That's Mr. Bean, innit?

The same guy, Rowan Atkinson as Johnny English.

[turtle777]

The spy who shagged me.

Still waiting for that to happen *sigh*

-t

[Doofy]

Originally Posted by Eynstyn

Had to look at the link to tell who it was.

There's a couple of Nikitas aren't there? Bridget Fonda and this one here, right?

Not forgetting the one in the original French(?) film.

[Eynstyn]

The same guy, Rowan Atkinson as Johnny English.

Ah!

The spy who shagged me. Still waiting for that to happen *sigh*

Ha!

Not forgetting the one in the original French(?) film.

Uh, yes. I was. I knew there was more than one and wasn't sure about if there were THREE! There were.
Thanks.

[as2]

Originally Posted by turtle777

The spy who shagged me.

Still waiting for that to happen *sigh*

-t

do you realise how much your sig looks like some dodgy mutated penis!

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by as2

do you realise how much your sig looks like some dodgy mutated penis!

You are kidding, right ? Can't be. To me, it looks like a naked mole-rat.

-t

[historylme]

"355" was a member of the famous Culper Ring, a secret intelligence network based around New York City and Long Island during the American Revolution. Major Benjamin Tallmadge formed this group as a way to supply General Washington with military intelligence on the British forces led by General Henry Clinton that occupied New York City. The British captured her and she was held prisoner on the prison ship "Jersey" .




edit: Here is the link to read more on women spies.
http://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/spies.html

[Eynstyn]

Originally Posted by history1me

"355" was a member of the famous Culper Ring, a secret intelligence network based around New York City and Long Island during the American Revolution. Major Benjamin Tallmadge formed this group as a way to supply General Washington with military intelligence on the British forces led by General Henry Clinton that occupied New York City. The British captured her and she was held prisoner on the prison ship "Jersey" .




edit: Here is the link to read more on women spies.
http://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/spies.html