Before the DIA, CIA, NSA, or one of the agencies under the Ministry of Defense only way to America to receive intelligence was a motley group of patriots spies who were so secret, not even General George Washington knew their identity. The group's name was Culper Ring and provided the colonies with valuable information on the British. They would continue to help change the tide of the Revolutionary War.
It is not surprising AMC created a show based out of the secret spy ring ... but it is the real group's story is even more exciting than any script.
in the summer of 1778 the British occupied New York City. After some of Washington's military officers were captured, the general decided civil agents would work better in New York.
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Washington turned to Benjamin Tallmadge to recruit informants in New York and Long Island. The plan was for Washington to communicate with officers Tallmadge. He declined to identify themselves.
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General designed the secret plan in County Culper, Virginia, and thus the network espionage was named the 'culper ring
Two of the most important agents in Tallmadge were Abraham Woodhull and Robert Townsend. They were known by their aliases "Samuel Culper, Sr." and "Samuel Culper, Jr."
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The agents developed secret codes to communicate, including written messages on newspapers in invisible ink. In addition to the alias, all those involved in the Culper Ring were assigned a code number - Washington was 711.
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Among the important information gathered by the Culper Ring was the British plan for a surprise attack on the newly allied French forces in Rhode Island. The ring also learned the British planned to counterfeit US bills.
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is believed that this Ring was the Culper who learned that an American high-ranking officer had worked with the British. It was later revealed that this officer was Major General Benedict Arnold himself.
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Perhaps the most elusive of the Ring device was Culper spy network, known only as agent 355. it may have played a key role in the Arnold exposure and capturing Major John Andr? British army.
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There is a testament to the successful Culper Ring that the public does not even know about spyware until the 1930s, when it was discovered that the writing of Robert Townsend bore a striking resemblance to that of the entity known as name Samuel Culper, Jr.
Could it be that the Culper ring was the most successful espionage group in American history?

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