With the Japanese spy mania, it was unwise for a Westerner to ask a soldier anything: where he'd been stationed, where he was going, doing what.

Since the beginning of the war demands had been made for the internment of naturalized aliens, and a spy mania developed.

During the period of political paranoia and spy mania remembered to history as the Yezhovshchina of 1937-38, Ryutin was retried.

His one spy thriller, written in London in 1968 at the height of the fictional spy mania, is The Bel Air Blitz.

Other members suggested that "spy mania" had gone too far in the case.

It began, in Saltash as elsewhere, with patriotic fervour and paranoic anti-Hun feeling and spy mania.

During the years of the fictional spy mania initially begun by the James Bond stories Haggard was considered by most critics to be at the very top of the field.

The book appeared at the height of the fictional spy mania and, as a send-up of the whole business, was an immediate success.

Look at the fools they make of themselves with their witch hunts, their hysterical spy mania, their obsession over communism.

Boysie Oakes is fictional secret agent created by the British spy novelist John Gardner in 1964 at the height of the fictional spy mania.