Day: February 18, 2024

IT’S TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS! BOOKSTORE AND LIBRARY EDITION!

Avril_Haines, who once owned a bookstore, was first woman to serve as #CIA’s Deputy Director and the first woman to serve as Director of National Intelligence. pic.twitter.com/l9jgstjrYP

— SPIES&VESPERS (@SpiesVespers) February 18, 2024

A Pennsylvania judge who allegedly shot her ex-boyfriend in the head and then tried to convince him that he shot himself was charged with first-degree attempted murder and aggravated assault. https://t.co/i7fvJ5HgaH

— NBC News (@NBCNews) February 18, 2024

#OTD in 2001, the #FBI arrested veteran counterintelligence agent Robert Hanssen for committing espionage on behalf of the former Soviet Union and its successors. He pleaded guilty to 15 counts of espionage and was sentenced to life in prison. https://t.co/aQyOHuFdpe pic.twitter.com/6NO5Yq2w6e

— FBI Detroit (@FBIDetroit) February 18, 2024

Addressing US Jewish leaders on Gaza war, PM says: ‘We have to finish the job’ https://t.co/rdlkmgXrNG

— The Times of Israel (@TimesofIsrael) February 18, 2024

OTD Feb 18, 1967 American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer died. Headed Manhattan Project, director of Las Alamos Lab and “father of atomic bomb.” Controversial figure. Later stripped of security clearance. pic.twitter.com/HMCV0Hru6Q

— SPIES&VESPERS (@SpiesVespers) February 18, 2024