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Bond & Blofeld team up

A new graphic novel series from Marvel writer Christos Gage sees criminal mastermind Ernst Stavro Blofeld recruit 007 to join the bad guys at SPECTRE (Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion) as part of a terrorist power struggle that could have apocalyptic consequences! James Bond: Agent of SPECTRE is scheduled for March 2021.

 

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'Ginger-lith' mystery

San Francisco awoke to a frosted gingerbread monolith perched above the city on Christmas Day, but within 24 hours only a candle and a framed ‘ginger-lith’ portrait remained. This was the world’s 135th monolith sighting in 2020 according to the monolith spotters (yes, they really do exist).  

 

DISCOVER THE MONOLITH RANKINGS

 

Spymaster 'D' 

From Netflix’s The Spy and Fauda to Apple TV’s Tehran, Israel’s Mossad is the spy agency of the moment for streaming drama. Want to find out more about how Mossad's spymaster is chosen?  

 

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The death of a traitor

British double agent George Blake betrayed hundreds of western spies to the Soviet Union, where he lived after escaping from a London prison. Trained by MI6 then recruited by the KGB at the height of the Cold War, Blake was convicted of spying after a trial conducted mainly behind closed doors. Hubert Lister Parker, former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, gave Blake the maximum sentence he could, 42 years. To the Russians, Blake was a legend. To the Brits, he was just another traitor.

 

WHO WAS BLAKE?

 

Spy Games 2.0

From a cyberattack on US nuclear networks to the hijacking of President-elect Joe Biden’s Twitter account, international espionage shifted to the digital battlefield to an unprecedented degree in 2020. Want to know which were the most audacious hacks of the year? 

 

TOP 2020 HACKS

 

 

Underpants espionage 

Russia has ordered opposition leader Alexey Navalny to fly home from Germany or face prison after he accused FSB spies of poisoning his underwear. Navalny received treatment at Berlin's Charité hospital following his poisoning in August with the nerve agent Novichok - or his ‘illness’ as the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service called it. Want to know why the Kremlin's knickers are in a twist? 

 

RUSSIA'S POISONOUS PAST

 

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