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The Spy Who Couldn't Spell | FBI

True Spies: Espionage | Investigation | Crime | Murder | Detective | Politics

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The Search for the Spy That Couldn't Spell

The first American to face the death penalty for attempted espionage against his own country. The man investigators would come to know as mister 80 %. "Here was a guy who would be sort of 80% brilliant, and then would do something all of a sudden, unexpectedly, that was incredibly stupid"

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