Levels of trust are so abysmally low that some big governments would basically like something like a Cold War spy swap, with Mr Klaus and a pen poised at one end of a foggy bridge, and the council conclusions ready for approval at the other.
The admitted secret agents were eventually flown to Austria, where, in a scene reminiscent of a Cold War spy drama, they were swapped on a Vienna airport tarmac for four men who had been imprisoned in Russia, most on charges of spying for the West.
Japan's secret service, perhaps influenced by stories of Mata Hari, a dancer who became a spy in the first world war, asked Miss Nakamura to spy on a foreign client.
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Living in the Cold War's most secret spy station on top of the wreckage of Nazi Germany.
In 1917, World War I's most famous spy, Mata Hari, was executed by firing squad at Vincennes Barracks outside Paris.
Former MK and Balad leader Azmi Bishara fled the country in 2007 to avoid being arrested for serving as a Hizbullah spy in the 2006 war.
Eisenhower himself pinning the Distinguished Service Cross on the Swiss-born spy at the end of World War II.
After the war she was accused, mysteriously, of being a spy for the Gestapo, and sentenced to two years in jail by one of the courts set up by the victors.
Opera shows are staged in former swimming pools, contemporary art is displayed on the scruffy walls of World War II bunkers and open air raves are held in abandoned spy towers.
It will be a final tribute for a warrior spy-turned-surgeon who spent his post-war years pioneering heart research and emergency trauma care from New York to Hawaii.
Kiriakou later worked as a consultant for the US news network and published a book, entitled The Reluctant Spy: My Secret Life in the CIA's War on Terror.
In an era of "peace dividend" budget cuts and criticism of the security services, the museum presents a story of how the spy wars helped avoid the need for a "hot war" between superpowers.
The Air Force will posthumously award the Silver Star on Friday to Francis Gary Powers, whose capture in 1960 after his spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union became a Cold War flash point.
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