Spy Terminology
The best spies are those with access to…
a) High-ranking officials or secret information b) Every cell phone network in the world c) Large arsenals
a) High-ranking officials or secret information
An African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the US Civil War. After escaping from captivity, she made thirteen missions to rescue around seventy slaves through the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
He is a fictional Senior Operational Officer of the “Double-O” (00) branch, an ultra-covert Black Ops unit within the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS / MI6). As an intelligence officer in MI6, he holds the code number “007.”
James Bond (James Bond films)
What does the CIA stand for?
Central Intelligence Agency
This teenager sometimes helps the Hardy Boys spy on and catch criminals
Nancy Drew (Nancy Drew series)
Provides false information to the side he’s supposedly spying for while providing true information to the side to which he’s originally loyal
What nation did CIA official Aldrich Ames spy for in the 1980s?
Soviet Union
Once their parents are captured by an evil mastermind, these two siblings bravely jet through the air, dive under the seas, and crisscross the globe in a series of thrilling adventures on a mission to save their parents.
Carmen and Juni Cortez (Spy Kids)
What does the NSA stand for?
National Security Agency
This Harry Potter character is revealed to be a double agent on behalf of Dumbledore in the final book
Severus Snape (Harry Potter series)
Espionage comes from a French word meaning what?
To spy
What was the name of the code the Nazis used in World War II?
a) Ultra b) Purple c) Enigma
c) Enigma
When a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past arises and an unstoppable force haunts her, she must deal with her history as a spy and the broken relationships left long before she became an Avenger.
Natasha Romanoff (Black Widow)
What is the Soviet Union’s Intelligence Agency?
KGB (Committee for State Security)
This 11-year-old enjoys spying on people and writing about them in her notebook
Harriet (Harriet the Spy)
What is a spy's legend?
A background story and documents that support an identity
What former U.S. president authorized the flight of a U-2 spy plane in 1960?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
After his partner and the Missions Force team is murdered and he is framed for it, he must sneak back into the heavily guarded CIA building to retrieve a confidential computer file that will prove his innocence.
Ethan Hunt (Mission: Impossible)
What is Britain’s Intelligence Agency?
MI6, formally the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS)
Amy and Dan Cahill discover upon their grandmother’s death that the Cahill family has shaped most of world history in this series
39 clues
What is a dead drop?
A secret hiding place in public used to exchange information
What was Operation Fortitude?
a) A 1940 misinformation campaign in which the British fooled the Germans into believing that the entire Royal Air Force had been destroyed
b) A 1944 misinformation campaign in which the Americans fooled the Germans as to the location of the D-Day invasion at Normandy
c) A 1945 misinformation campaign in which the Japanese fooled the Americans regarding the amount of troops at Okinawa
b) A 1944 misinformation campaign in which the Americans fooled the Germans as to the location of the D-Day invasion at Normandy
He is a former CIA spy and assassin suffering from dissociative amnesia who must now figure out who he is
Jason Bourne (Bourne series)
What is Israel’s Intelligence Agency?
Mossad
This author created James Bond
Ian Fleming (James Bond series)