Animal Spies
What animals were used as explosives?
Rats
How many German agents in Britain were tried and then dispatched by firing squad at the Tower of London?
11 agents
What object was secretly used to store maps?
Cans
Who was the spy that was a famous dancer and was hired by the French intelligence to spy on the Germans but later found guilty by the French for being a double agent when she was not?
Mata Hari
What role did dogs have in WWI?
Thye carried messages, guns, and telephone wires.
How many Allied spies were found guilty of secretly working for the enemy by the Germans?
235
What objects were secret messages put in?
Cigars
German authorities arrested her and accused her of helping British and French prisoners-of-war, as well as Belgians hoping to serve with the Allied armies, to escape Belgium for neutral Holland.
Edith Cavell
What role did pigeons have in WW1?
They carried message capsules on their leg.
What was it called when people made highly complicated codes to send to each other?
Cryptography
What apparatus allowed the Germans to intercept the messages from British field telephones.
Moritz
This spy secretly helped the British plot attacks against the Germans. She was Belgian but, spied on the Germans for almost two years. She used her position to observe them and gain their trust.
Marthe Mckenna
What was a glow worms role in WW1?
They were used as lamps
What did most espionage work result in?
Eavesdropping
What is the communication language used with the telegraph?
Morse code
This spy was one of the greatest codebreakers ever. She taught herself how to solve secret messages without knowing anything. She also helped to invent the modern science of secret writing, cryptology, that lies at the base of everything from government institutions like the NSA to the fluctuations of our daily online lives.
Elizabeth Freidman
What role did a slug have in WW1?
Slugs could detect mustard gas way before humans.
What happened to spies in 1917?
2,000 spies and other supposed undesirables were rounded up in France and either imprisoned or executed.
What object was used to conceal ‘invisible ink’ used for writing secret messages back to Germany?
Socks
Was apart of the Nili spy network group which was to aid the British and help bring an end to Ottoman rule in Palestine. She supervised all the intelligence gathering and was responsible for communicating with the British. She later was captured by the Turkish Empire and was severely beaten until she shot herself.
Sarah Aaronsohn