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Tag: Spying

Podcast

14th October 1962: U-2 spy plane captures images of Cuban missile sites

14th October 2020
Tagged as: Castro, Cold War, Cuba, Cuban Missile Crisis, Khrushchev, Missile, Nuclear, Spying, U-2, USA

A U-2 spy plane captured images of the construction of a missile site on Cuba, triggering the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Podcast

12th October 1915: British nurse Edith Cavell was executed by a German firing squad

12th October 2018
Tagged as: Belgium, Britain, Edith Cavell, Espionage, Execution, First World War, Germany, Spying

British nurse Edith Cavell was executed by a German firing squad during the First World War.

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