Minnesota Spy Club

Official account of the MN Spy Club. All things espionage: History & current events; espionage tradecraft, SERE skills, & underground resistance. #Antifascist.

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This account will go silent when Elon Musk takes control of Twitter, though will continue to provide underground support for the #Resistance.

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@ElonMusk has used a loud speaker to telegraph where Twitter is headed under his leadership.

This account will be leaving Twitter.

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Though I find Cold War espionage less interesting than WW2 operations because of the nearby geographic connection, must note that #OTD, April 28, 1994, River Falls, WI native former CIA officer Aldrich Ames & his wife Rosario plead guilty to spying for the Soviet Union & Russia.

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The American experiment stands at the precipice:

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April 28, 1912: #OTD Odette Sansom (Hallowes) was born. She became a #WW2 #SOE courier agent in the SPINDLE circuit in France. She was the first woman ever to receive the George Cross, and the only woman who has been awarded it while still alive. https://t.co/5HvyYYI3yO

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The National #WW2 Museum to honor the francophone Cajuns & Acadians, collectively known as Frenchies, who served in Europe, including serving in the #OSS.
https://t.co/mA4MVpnz9e

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April 26, 1944: #OTD #SOE commandos kidnapped a Nazi General. Photo: Patrick Leigh Fermor & Billy Moss in Crete, April 1944, wearing German uniforms: #WW2 https://t.co/D44TNbJqa8

[Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule]

GOOD NEWS: The Butterfly Center, at the Texas border, which was targeted by far-right conspiracy theorists is set to reopen. https://t.co/WqjNIHweV0

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Russian billionaire Yuri Milner with a significant stake in Facebook and Twitter was bankrolled by a Russian bank known to fund Kremlin projects. #PropagandaWar

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Russia, also known as Florida East, purging school textbooks of information opposed by the leader.

[Scott Rose (@rprose.bsky.social) @rprose]

One of Russia's largest textbook printers, Prosveshcheniye ("Enlightenment"), has ordered editors to purge positive references to Ukraine from schoolbooks on history, literature & geography

Incredibly detailed reporting from @nesteliza_ for @mediazzzona
https://t.co/B9N4MaE4Hg

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(3/3) Video discussion of the Sedgley glove pistol: #OSS #WW2 #Ordnance
https://t.co/bd80i03R2Q

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(1/3) The Sedgley #OSS single shot .38 glove pistol. The gun’s trigger bar protrudes from the front of the device when the gloved hand is made into a fist. Very few of the weapons were manufactured and it is uncertain if the gun saw much actual wartime use. #WW2. #Ordnance

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(2/3) The patent application for the Sedgley single shot glove pistol was submitted after #WW2 in 1947. #OSS #Ordnance

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[Michael MacKay @mhmck]

Two pieces of the Russian fascist war machine were destroyed by fire today.

The Aerospace Defence Research Institute in Tver (left) was where Iskander missiles were developed.

The Dmitrievsky Chemical Plant east of Moscow (right) manufactured chemical solvents.

[Julia Davis @JuliaDavisNews]

I've seen Russian propagandists contort themselves into pretzels, but this really takes the cake. Former military spy on state TV claimed that Americans are responsible for the genocide of Russians, because they're arming Ukrainians in order to exterminate the Russian genotype.

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@cwebbonline @FoxNews @TuckerCarlson @seanhannity @MariaBartiromo @IngrahamAngle It's always projection with the GOP....

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Lauwers received the Bronze Star when another propaganda operation led to the surrender of 600 Czechoslovak troops who had been forced into service by the Germans. She survived the war and died August 16, 2009 at age 95. #OSS #WW2 (4/4) https://t.co/Vhfvgls2kV

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April 22, 1914: #OTD Barbara Lauwers born in then Czechoslovakia. She graduated from law school, immigrated to the US, & joined the US Army after Pearl Harbor. She was subsequently transferred to the #OSS. #WW2 (1/4) https://t.co/RNi7C5r5Um

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A specific black ops creation of Lauwers was the “League of Lonely War Women” (Verein Einsamer Kriegerfrauen) which sought to undermine Axis morale & demoralize German soldiers that their wives or girlfriends were unfaithful. #OSS #WW2 (3/4)
https://t.co/vyi6xKEno5