30 Unknown Facts about Spies

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26Gevork Vartanian

Gevork Vartanian

At the age of 19, a Soviet Armenian spy named Gevork Vartanian, operating in Iran led a team in 1943 that helped foil a Nazi plot to assassinate Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin (who were meeting in Tehran).


27. The MI6 double agent Kim Philby informed his wife of his defection via a telegram from Russia which read: "Farewell forever. Love to the children."


28. Secret Service agents lived in Bill Clinton's daughter Chelsea Clinton's dorm, and posed as students, while she was an undergraduate student at Stanford University.


29. A British double agent named Eddie Chapman codenamed "Zigzag" volunteered to blow up Adolf Hitler in a suicide mission but was rejected by MI5.


30. The early 20th-century British spy named Frederick Bailey used his hobby of butterfly collecting as a cover and was such a successful spy that the Russian security agency Cheka hired him to uncover a known British Spy named Frederick Bailey (himself).

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