What is an example of espionage?

Answer 1

An example of espionage, would be the acquisition of the Jerry Can, by Allied forces in World War 2. A German engineer and his American college Paul Pleiss had built a vehicle to travel India. The German, realising they had no way to store spare fuel and water, took several Jerry Cans, which had been secretly developed by the Nazi prior to the war, from the stockpile at a German airport. When the inadvertent theft was discovered, the Luftwaffe was dispatched to arrest the German engineer. Paul Pleiss however, had continued on with both the vehicle and the cans. Eventually the cans made their way back to America and the Allied forces and were subsequently reused by the Allied forces.

Espionage may take many forms, including theft of informational intelligence documents, dissemination of false informational intelligence in an attempt to deceive an opponent, and theft of strategic assets, such as the Jerry can.

Espionage is distinctly different from sabotage, in that espionage does not use direct destruction against strategic assets.

Answer 2

The watergate scandal when Nixon was recorded on a tape recorder saying that he had to pay off blackmail funds wanted by howard hunt who at the time blackmailed the White House.