Harry Houdini was a Covert Spy ??

This in-depth article by Gary Shapiro, Staff Reporter of the New York Sun, explains the newly released theory that Harry Houdini may have been a ... gasp... spy..

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The famed magician Harry Houdini guarded the secrets behind his legendary escapes from handcuffs, chains, jails, milk cans, mailbags, and water chambers...

But the authors of a forthcoming book on Houdini will be disclosing that he had another secret: his role as a spy. This claim is already causing a stir in the magic community and will create more buzz on October 31 — exactly 80 years after Houdini's death at age 52 — when William Kalush and Larry Sloman's "The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero" rolls off the presses.

http://www.nysun.com/article/38654