Spymaster

Spymaster

A Spymaster is a ringleader of a spy ring, run by a secret service.

Historical examples include Michael Collins, Sir Francis Walsingham, R. N. Kao, William Wickham, George Washington, William Stephenson, Dai Li, Semyon Semenov, Count Ignatiev, Joseph Peters and the so called "Spymaster's Spymaster" Markus Wolf.

"Spymaster" is also a section found in "Boy's Life" magazine that shows different methods of coding messages. A short book was made containing an assortment of codes and their history, including Morse code.


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