Sidney Reilly had escaped the clutches of the Soviet secret police before, but his mission wasn't complete.

He was a British intelligence agent who was the inspiration behind Ian Fleming’s fictional spy James Bond. Sidney Reilly traveled the world on covert missions, but his womanizing, gambling, and lavish lifestyle were what made him a legend in the world of

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Despite his below-average job performance and his secret work as a soviet spy, Aldrich “Rick” Ames managed to keep his CIA position well into the 1960s.

He was a chronic underachiever—lazy, reckless, alcoholic, and barely hanging on to his desk job at the CIA in the 1960s.

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During the Cold War, East Germany’s state security service was the Ministry for State Security—later known as the Stasi.

He had the trust of the top Nazi powerbrokers but was also starting to doubt the Party’s ability to win its war.