Word: agente
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...graduate of Cornell University's law school who has also done graduate work in philosophy and library services, Brinkema - known to her friends as "Deedee" - hasn't handled many high-profile national security cases. But earlier this year she sentenced a former Australian intelligence agent to 15 years for attempted espionage. Jean-Philippe Wispelaere pleaded guilty to selling more than 900 classified U.S. documents for $120,000 to an FBI agent posing as a foreign...
...MOVE OVER, JOHN LE CARRE: On January 2, Little, Brown will publish "The Spy Next Door: The Extraordinary Secret Life of Robert Philip Hanssen, the Most Damaging FBI Agent in American History," by TIME Washington correspondent Elaine Shannon and former TIME Washington correspondent Ann Blackman...
...strangest culture clash of the war in Afghanistan took place on a bright Sunday morning in late November. In the Qala-i-Jangi prison fortress, a few miles west of Mazar-i-Sharif, CIA agent Johnny ("Mike") Spann was sorting through 300 surrendered Taliban soldiers in an attempt to determine which of them were al-Qaeda members. Dressed in blue jeans, with an AK-47 strapped across the back of his black sweater, Spann passed through several rows of Taliban before crouching in front of a prisoner who had been separated from the rest, a mass of tangled hair...
...eagerness to repeat that experience. Six years on the State Department's terrorist list taught Sudan the economic cost of getting cozy with terrorists. The Islamic regime does remain suspect for nurturing extremism. Its diplomats were allegedly involved this year in a plot - dreamed up by an al-Qaeda agent connected to the Cole and East African embassy attacks - to bomb the U.S. embassy in India. But the Sudanese government claims its tolerance for that stuff is over, since Islamic militant Hassan al-Turabi, formerly the guiding light of the National Islamic Front government, fell from favor and was arrested...
...ordeal indeed. Walker (he goes by his mother’s maiden name) was taken prisoner by the Northern Alliance after the fall of Kunduz and imprisoned in the now-infamous Kala Jangi fortress. At the prison, Newsweek reported recently, he refused to answer questions posed by two CIA agents. Shortly after he was sent back to his cell, one of his interrogators, CIA agent Johnny “Mike” Spann, was killed by Walker’s comrades-in-arms...