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Espionage history: everything you wanted to know

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The James Bonds of the Future

One of the ways romans used to covertly send messages tat there were various things, the cypher scroll, the ursary, the caesar cypher. Thahave been used as a sort of code breaking. But astually, what they one tactic was to get a slave, shave their hair off, tattoo a message on their scalp, wait for their hair to grow back, and then send them off to ever. So going back to some of these individuals then, and we got a question here about recruitment, and how spies recruited. That's come from simon beale on twitter. Ye, we still have our james bonds still to come. On the

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