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John Dee was the 16th century's real-life Gandalf
Queen Elizabeth I’s court advisor was the foremost scientific genius of the 16th century, laying the foundation of modern science. Then teamed up with a disreputable, criminal psychic and things really got rolling.
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The Hunted
Uzbekistan’s president has jailed, tortured, and murdered his opponents at home. Now, he’s hiring hit men to track down and kill dissidents abroad.
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I Googled my Mother’s Maiden Name and Found My Family’s Violent Secret
“I went to my mother's house with a fire lit under my ass, and before the door had even closed behind me, I blurted out....”
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The Untold Story of Mussolini’s Fake Diaries
Before the war, Churchill offered Il Duce a deal. After the war, British intelligence tried to destroy their correspondence. Years later, a mystery man offered them to me.
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A Strange Philosophical Manuscript. A Secret Benefactor
The Mystery of the Millionaire Metaphysician
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The Nanda Devi mystery
Fifty years after deadly plutonium was lost on India’s second highest mountain, the enigma continues
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Accused of Spying for China, Until She Wasn’t
A National Weather Service flood forecaster in Ohio faced federal economic espionage charges, until her case was dropped as abruptly as it had upended her life.
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Relentless: Putnam County Sheriff Howard Sills chases a killer
In Putnam County, GA, everybody knows Sheriff Howard Sills, and Sills knows everybody—except who murdered an elderly couple on Lake Oconee last May.
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Pirate Captain Kidd’s ‘treasure’ found in Madagascar
Underwater explorers in Madagascar say they have found what is thought to be the treasure of notorious Scottish pirate Captain William Kidd.
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Frozen Assets: Inside the Spy War for Control of the Arctic
The newest front in global espionage is one of the least habitable locales on Earth—the Arctic.
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Still Secret and Secure, Safe Rooms Now Hide in Plain Sight
Once built behind fake bookcases or trap doors, fortified spaces today double as bathrooms, closets and even master bedroom suites.
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Why the last of the JFK files could embarrass the CIA
Among the 40,000 documents are roughly 3,600 that have never been seen by the public. By Bryan Bender.
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Vitaly Mashitsky On The Kaliningrad Front – High Stakes In The Amber Game
By John Helmer.
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Art World Hunt: The Quest for Hitler’s Lost Treasures
A Dutch detective and Berlin police spent months searching for art commissioned by Hitler that went missing after German reunification. Officials finally recovered the dubious works in raids last week -- here's how they did it.
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This guy from Baltimore is raising a Christian army to fight ISIS…what could go wrong?
Meet self-proclaimed freedom fighter Matthew VanDyke.
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A Thousand Pounds of Dynamite
The bizarre tale of one of the largest homemade bombs in U.S. history—and the mad genius behind it. By Adam Higginbotham.
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The Rise and Fall of Haitian Drug Lord Jacques Ketant
It was supposed to be easy. Edouard Rene Joseph was a combat vet, Desert Storm, so he had trimmed the situation down to simple mission objectives: Get into the country, pick up the kids, leave the country. One day, tops. No big deal.
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Hola VPN Already Exploited by “Bad Guys” Security Firm Says
The PR disaster for geo-unblocking software Hola has deepened with a report from cybersecurity firm Vectra
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The Lost Man
An amateur sleuth thinks he's cracked one of the most legendary cold cases of all time.
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The Spy Who Billed Me
In 1961, when a KGB counterintelligence officer showed up at a CIA station in Helsinki, Jeanne Vertefeuille held the keys to the office safe. "Responsibility for office funds was part of my normal administrative duties," the former CIA officer writes... By Sarah Laskow.
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