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Spies: A Cold War Daybook is a Windows calendar and screen saver that will tell you stories from the dark history of twentieth-century espionage.
Spies: A Cold War Daybook can be configured both to appear on command — whenever you run it, or every morning when your computer boots up — and as a conventional screen saver, whenever your system has been idle for a predetermined period.
Unlike spy movies in which the hero always manages to get the secret microfilm, evade a few deranged killers from an unnamed Eastern European nation and make love to any number of women he hadn't met 24 hours earlier, the stories in Spies: A Cold War Daybook are true.
The term espionage is most readily associated with state spying on potential or actual enemies, primarily for military purposes, but this has been extended to spying involving corporations, known specifically as industrial espionage.
The term intelligence officer is also used to describe a member of the armed forces, police officer or civilian intelligence agency who specialises in the gathering, fusion and analysis of information and intelligence in order to provide advice to their government or another organisation.
Spymaster is a term often used in literature for the superior of a spy ring.
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