Process

First you will need a subject (a person suspected of being a rebel sympathizer) to investigate. Choose one from the list your Bureau Chief (your teacher) has, or you may be assigned one. Below is a list of websites that may or may not have the information you need for your individual subject. How will you find out if the Web site in question does have the information you need? Well, there are several ways:

 

  1. You can read though the entire site. Interesting? Perhaps. Efficient? No, not really, unless you can speed read.  
  2. You can go to the “Edit” tab near the upper left corner of your browser window and scroll down to the “Find…” function. Type in a key word (like your subjects name*), and read where the highlighted text is. Interesting? Probably. Fast? Undoubtedly.  
  3. You can get to the “Find …” function by hitting “ctrl + f ” and then proceeding as in #2 above.

Here is the list of Websites to search - happy hunting.

 

 1. http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/warindep/intellopos.shtml

 2. http://www.nsa.gov/cch/cch00002.cfm

 3. http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/aia/cyberspokesman/99feb/history.pdf

 4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_in_the_American_Revolutionary_War

 5. http://www.history.org/History/teaching/revolution/i1.html

 6. http://www.si.umich.edu/spies/methods.html

 7. http://www.cia.gov/cia/ciakids/history/hall_of_fame_01.shtml

 8. http://www.nps.gov/revwar/about_the_revolution/revolutionary_people.html

 9. http://www.americanrevolution.com/MartyrsandHeroes.htm

10. http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/score_lessons/women_american_revolution/

11. http://www.espionageinfo.com/Re-Se/Revolutionary-War-Espionage-and-Intelligence.html

12. http://independence.nyhistory.org/museum2/index.cgi2?a=pageview&page_id=19

13. http://www.srmason-sj.org/council/journal/feb00/poteat.html

14. http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Intelligence%20in%20the%20American%20Revolutionary%20War

15. http://www.our-oxford.info/other-history/Windsor.htm

16. http://www.americanrevolution.org/women26.html

17. http://www.baltimoremd.com/monuments/goddard.html

18. http://europeanpaintings.com/exhibits/xviiicent/trumbio.htm

19. http://www.americanrevolution.org/nguyen.html

20. http://www.longislandgenealogy.com/patriots.html#spy

21. http://www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/ny-history-hs417a,0,6764482.story?coll=ny-lihistory-navigation

 

It seems like a lot, well, it is a lot! But the "Find" function will make it go fast. Practice it! Most of the sites will not apply to your subject. However, if there are links to other sites within these Web pages that pertain to your subject, you may want to explore those pages for any important information too.

 

*Spy Hint:: Watch for variations of names! You may want to use only last names in "Find."

 

 

Process for Task II

Now that you and your partner have gathered all available information, you are ready to compile what you were able to find into a secret message to send to another cell of fellow spies. There are several ways to code a message as you can learn on this Website.

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngkids/trythis/secretcodes/semaphore.html

 PS Choose one that your Supervising Agent (the teacher) approves of, some methods involve chemical and physical changes that may not be permitted, or wise.

Process for Task III

Now that you have become accomplished spies you are to alert the general public to the presence of those rebel sympathizers that you have investigated. You can do this by following the format your Supervisory Agent has given you. It may be by using MS Publisher or making a poster the old fashioned way – by hand. Either way you must be effective and neat and include all you can about your subject.

 

You may not have a picture; you may not have all the information you would like – that is OK! Use what you were able to find. You do what you are able to without compromising yourself and your true identity as a spy.