spy, n.Trivia

In the 1960s, the CIA spent $20 million on a cat equipped with gear to spy on the Soviets. The cat was hit by a taxi.

John Le Carré is credited with coining a number of terms for his fictional intelligence agency (terms like mole, honey trap, pavement artist, asset babysitter).

Ninjas were often hired to spy, not fight.

During WWII, female spies passed secret info by knitting coded messages into scarves