Secret Agencies
What is the American agency establised by Harry S Truman?
The CIA
What item was disguised as a gun?
Where did the group meet?
Cambridge University
Where were they from?
America
Robert Menzies
What is the method of secretly gathering information from rival countries, was one of the main activities of Cold War intelligence agencies?
Espionage
Which country did Nikolai Khokhlov expose a cache of covert assassination weapons to?
West Germany
Who were they sharing information to?
Who were they giving information to?
Soviet Union
What was the name of the labour party leader?
H.V. Evatt
The Soviet intelligence agency was dissolved in 1991 after the collapse of the USSR?
The KGB
What toxin was in the heart attack gun?
Frozen shellfish toxins
Why did they embrace communism?
in fear of rising fascism and intellectual disillusionment.
In 1953 they became what?
What was a conspiracy theory that H.V. Evatt raised?
Petrovs defection being timed to impact the election.
What organisation was described as the "sword and shield" of their country?
The KGB
Ricin
Who was the double agent, recruited by the KGB while working for British intelligence, was one of the "Cambridge Five."
Kim Philby
What did the US government hope would happen by giving them the death penalty?
The government hoped that they would give up information and cause people to fear what would happen if they were sharing information.
Named 3 members of H.V. Evatts staff as sources of information for Soviet agents
What was the main difference between the MI5 and MI6?
MI5 is the domestic agency and the MI6 was the foreign agency for the UK
Why was Georgi Markov assassinated with the umbrella gun?
He criticised the Bulgarian government.
What information were they sharing?
passing diplomatic, atomic and intelligence files
Why were they charged with the death penalty?
Because Julius would not cooperate with the government.
Why did Menzies announcement of Petrov's defection cause political controversy?
He did it right before the federal election.