Intelligence & Counterintelligence

One of the resources recently added to Credo Reference is the Encyclopedia of Intelligence and Counterintelligence by M. E. Sharpe. If you fancy yourself as a spy or secret agent, try to answer these questions which can all be answered from this title.

1. One of the resources recently added to Credo Reference is the Encyclopedia of Intelligence and Counterintelligence by M. E. Sharpe. If you fancy yourself as a spy or secret agent, try to answer these questions which can all be answered from this title.
   Weapons of mass destruction.
2. In which city is the Lubyanka?
   Moscow.
3. Which terrorist network has a name which is Arabic for the "Solid Base"?
   Al-Qaeda (Al-Qaeda Al Subah).
4. Who led the Cuban Revolution that overthrew the dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959?
   Fidel Castro.
5. What was the name of the German encoding device whose code was broken by Alan Turing in World War II, which led to Allied victory in the Battle for the Atlantic?
   ENIGMA.
6. Ian Fleming wrote the first James Bond novel in 1953. Was it called "Thunderball", "Dr. No", or "Casino Royale"?
   Casino Royale.
7. The SOE was a UK intelligence organization. What did the letters "SOE" stand for?
   Special Operations Executive.
8. Name three of the four zones into which Berlin was divided at the end of World War II.
   French, British, American, Soviet.
9. In the 1930s, a group of four Englishmen from Cambridge University were famously recruited as Soviet spies. Name three of them.
   Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt, Donald Maclean, Kim Philby.
10. "PURPLE" was a codename for a cipher machine introduced in 1939 by which people?
    The Japanese.

Questions set by Tony Augarde, author of "The Oxford Guide to Word Games"

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