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Antonio Prohías, a Cuban cartoonist who was accused of working for the CIA by the Castro government. He fled to New York and went on to create Spy vs Spy for Mad Magazine. Later he said, "The sweetest revenge has been to turn Fidel's accusation of me as a spy into a moneymaking venture."
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In 1993, when Spy magazine asked 20 freshmen US House members "Do you approve of what we're doing to stop ethnic cleansing in Freedonia?," several of them didn't realize it was a made up country and gave their "opinions" on the subject.
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Soviet spy Klaus Fuchs requested contact with his handlers by throwing a soft porn magazine over a specific garden hedge in London.
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Spy vs. Spy, the Mad Magazine comic strip was originally created as a parody of Cold War ideologies.
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A New Zealand spy once lost his briefcase. It was found to contain his business card, 5 pies, a diary, and a copy of Penthouse, a pornographic magazine.
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In 1993, Spy Magazine tricked US Congressmen and Congresswoman into releasing statements on the fake country "Freedonia" from the 1933 Marx Brothers' movie "Duck Soup" and it's problem of ethnic cleansing.
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SPY Magazine once sent some of the world’s richest people checks of 13 cents to see who would cash them. The only people to do so were an arms dealer and Donald Trump.
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Before coming up with "short-fingered vulgarian" in 1988, Spy Magazine tried out other nicknames for Donald Trump including "well-fed condo hustler", "ugly cuff link buff", "joyless punk millionaire", and "Forbes 400 dropout"
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Spy Magazine sent 13-cent checks to some of the world's richest people to see who would cash them. The only two people who did were an international arms dealer and Donald Trump.
