US Intelligence

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Anthropologists as Spies Anthropologists as Spies

Collaboration occurred in the past, and there’s no professional bar to it today.

Nov 2, 2000 / Feature / David Price

Trulock Is Source of Botched Lee Case Trulock Is Source of Botched Lee Case

In a bad spy flick, there's got to be a character like Notra Trulock, an obsessed sleuth who always gets his man--even if it's the wrong man.

Sep 12, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer

George Smiley, Move Over George Smiley, Move Over

"This is a story about a spy," writes Millicent Dillon in Harry Gold: A Novel.

Jun 29, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Elsa Dixler

Want to Know a Secret?–There Are No Secrets Want to Know a Secret?–There Are No Secrets

These days, the once highly revered nuclear weapons lab at Los Alamos is the butt of jokes and investigations over the latest revelation--that top-secret files supposedly locke...

Jun 27, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer

Lennon’s MI5-FBI Files Lennon’s MI5-FBI Files

The headline in the Sunday Times of London was spectacular: Lennon Funded Terrorists and Trotskyists. It was also erroneous.

Feb 23, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener

Waging War in Space Waging War in Space

"Master of Space"--a motto of the United States Space Command, a joint Air Force, Army and Navy command set up by the Pentagon in 1985--says it all.

Dec 9, 1999 / Karl Grossman and Judith Long

The Man From ONA The Man From ONA

Seventy-eight-year-old Andrew Marshall runs the Office of Net Assessment from a small office on the third floor of the Pentagon.

Oct 7, 1999 / Feature / Ken Silverstein

Spy or Savior? Spy or Savior?

If Russia is not to dissolve like the Soviet Union or, worse yet, end in a cataclysm like Yugoslavia's, it must negotiate peacefully across a welter of emotional claims to self-det...

Jul 8, 1999 / Books & the Arts / George Kenney

The Spies Who Fleeced Us The Spies Who Fleeced Us

It's always suspicious when Washingtonians start breaking into bad Latin. There may be a quid, you hear them say, and there seems to be a quo.

Jun 24, 1999 / Column / Christopher Hitchens

Lovestone’s Thin Red Line Lovestone’s Thin Red Line

Jay Lovestone is not only one of the oddest characters in the history of the American left but easily its most slippery.

May 6, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Paul Buhle

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