Spies of War

British MI-5 agents contribute to a deception campaign behind the scenes before nearly 130,000 Allied troops storm the beaches of German-occupied Normandy on D-Day June 6, 1944.

Two British intelligence officers devise an ingenious deception to divert German forces from Sicily before an Allied invasion July 10, 1943.

One of the 20th century's greatest spies plays a crucial role during the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962.

Soviet espionage leads to testing an atomic bomb Aug. 29, 1949, only four years after the United States dropped the first one during World War II.