International Spy Museum

10/20/2026

Bletchley Park is remembered as a land of male intellectuals, with figures like Alan Turing taking center stage. But that's not the whole story.

Women weren't just secretaries and assistants during WWII - they held serious, full-on codebreaking roles. Agnes Driscoll, Mary C. Lane, Ann Caracristi, and Elizebeth Friedman all helped crack enemy ciphers. So why did history leave them out?

Join codebreaking historian and SPY Honorary Board Member Dermot Turing as he shines a light on the hidden figures featured in his new book, "Misread Signals: How History Overlooked Women Codebreakers."

📅 Monday, October 26, 2026
🕕 6:30 PM ET (Hybrid)

Register here: https://www.spymuseum.org/calendar/misread-signals/2026-10-26/?utm_campaign=fb&utm_content=1792512018&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook

Audience Q&A and book signing to follow the presentation.

10/16/2026

Join us next Thursday for a free program at the Spy Museum!

For nearly a decade, US diplomats, spies, and soldiers around the world have reported sudden, devastating neurological injuries. The symptoms were eerily consistent with exposure to a directed energy weapon. As the cases grew, from Havana to Hanoi, the media dubbed the phenomenon “the Havana Syndrome.”

Award-winning "60 Minutes" producers Michael Rey and Oriana Zill de Granados dug through nine years of secret medical records, whistleblower testimony, and intelligence reports to write "The Havana Syndrome: Secret Weapons, a Government Cover-Up, and the Greatest Spy Mystery of Our Time."

Join SpyCast host Sasha Ingber in conversation with Rey and Zill de Granados as they trace the earliest attacks in Cuba and China, discuss the spread of incidents from Tbilisi to Vienna, and show mounting evidence pointing to an elite Russian unit behind it all.

📅 Thursday, October 22, 2026
🕕 6:30 PM ET (Hybrid)

Register: https://www.spymuseum.org/calendar/the-havana-syndrome/2026-10-22/?utm_campaign=fb&utm_content=1792180810&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook

Book signing to follow. In-person seating is first-come, first-served.

10/15/2026

German investigators have been unrelenting in their pursuit of justice since the 2022 attack on the Nord Stream pipelines, which carried Russian gas to Germany. Yesterday, the trial of a former Ukrainian special forces officer, identified as Serhii K., began in Hamburg.

It was seven months into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine when Scandinavian seismologists detected what looked like an undersea earthquake in the Baltic Sea. Denmark, Germany, and Sweden opened investigations, but only Germany pushed forward.

Bojan Pancevski, chief European political correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, uncovered what happened in his book, “The Nord Stream Conspiracy.” In this episode, SpyCast host Sasha Ingber sat down with him to discuss the operation and its fallout.

Watch here: https://youtu.be/WYf60aTXw2k

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10/14/2026

Meet Rupert. His mission? Deceive the enemy and then self-destruct. On D-Day in June 1944, the Allies dropped hundreds of burlap and sand dummies with cotton parachutes across N**i-occupied France, far from where the real paratroopers were landing in Normandy. Though just a third of the size of a person, the fakes, nicknamed “Rupert," would have looked larger in the air. They were designed to explode on landing, destroying evidence of the trick.

10/12/2026

New Achievement! LABEL READER: You've stood in the same place for over 5 minutes reading a museum label.

10/10/2026

These little birds have a secret. They’re actually KGB concealment devices.

How do we confirm that our artifacts are concealment devices without damaging them? We X-ray them! With a little help from the Pentagon, we uncovered capsules in each statue without compromising their integrity.

10/09/2026

On today's SpyCast, we bring you behind the scenes of a commando mission pulled straight from Jason Bell's book, "Operation Sparrow: The Incredible True Story of the North American Spies Who Tricked Hi**er and Won the War," released last week!

In the spring of 1944, three elite commandos parachuted into Hungary, a country aligned with N**i Germany. The men were trying to be captured...in what was meant to look like a failed operation. Their real mission: to help Hungary join the Allied side. But three days later, Germany launched a preemptive invasion. The men were captured by the Gestapo, imprisoned, and interrogated. They used their captivity as a chance to fool Adolf Hi**er into thinking an Allied invasion would come from southeastern Europe, drawing German troops away from Normandy ahead of D-Day. SpyCast Host Sasha Ingber sat down with author Jason Bell, who unravels this daring and untold story.

Watch here: https://youtu.be/Nba8Y7mH53g

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SpyCast is the spy podcast that gives you exclusive access to all things espionage and undercover. SpyCast is the official podcast of the International Spy Museum.

10/07/2026

We pitted our two fearless leaders against each other. The winner? Everybody.

10/06/2026

The perfect day is hidden in plain sight…

With secrets, stories, and a healthy helping of spycraft 🥸

10/05/2026

It’s Global James Bond Day, marking the 64th anniversary of the world premiere of the first 007 film, “Dr. No,” released on October 5, 1962. Author Ian Fleming’s first James Bond novel, “Casino Royale,” was released nine years earlier, on April 13, 1953. His work was inspired by his own experiences as a British Naval Intelligence officer during WWII.

While fictional, James Bond is a cultural icon and a gateway to the top-secret world of real intelligence.

Our museum features many 007 artifacts, including the Aston Martin DB5, first driven in the 1964 film “Goldfinger,” Bond’s Omega Seamaster Diver 300M Watch (on loan from Amazon) from “No Time to Die” (2021), and early editions of Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels (on loan from the Michael L. VanBlaricum Collection).

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