Jordan asked Missus Greenhow, soon after the war started, to be a spy for the South.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

Russia and the United States have completed the largest spy exchange since the Cold War.

VOA: special.2010.07.10

The action scenes are reminiscent of Cold War-era spy movies with classic fistfights and kicks, thrilling and unpretentious.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

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.

ECONOMIST: European politics

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.

WSJ: Russian Spy Ring Aimed to Make Children Agents

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.

ECONOMIST: Kiharu Nakamura, a geisha, died on January 5th, aged 90