Operation Tamarisk: The secret garbage war of the Cold War

In this series of Global Echoes, we look at another bizarre moment in history—a time when espionage went beyond top-secret files and high-stakes meetings. What if I told you that spies during the Cold War were rummaging through trash for secrets? This was the strange reality of Operation Tamarisk, an unusual mission undertaken by the military intelligence services of the U.S., U.K., and France.