Word: chery
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...fuzzy. The arrest of an U.S. State Department worker in Moscow quickly followed by the FBI's arrest of a Russian embassy employee seemed, to us, to be timed to coincide with the release of the latest movie in the James Bond series, "The World Is Not Enough." Cheri Leberknight, the alleged American spy, was apparently carrying several gadgets that could have been designed by Q himself. She allegedly carried several tools to ascertain whether she was under surveillance. Dartboard actually owns a similar tool called a radar detector. On the other side of the iron curtain, the Russian successor...
...quarreled over how many spies to let into each other's country under diplomatic cover. The Russians feel the U.S. has been stingy; the U.S. says the Russians have been "brazen and blatant," but "we've thwarted" them. The tension broke last week in Moscow with the arrest of CHERI LEBERKNIGHT, 33, ostensibly a U.S. embassy official but actually a CIA spy, according to the Russians. More schoolmarm than Mata Hari in looks, she was snatched late Monday with "ink tablets for secret correspondence" and equipment for detecting surveillance, says Moscow. Administration and intelligence officials tell time they believe...
...catching him listening to a bugging device planted in a State Department conference room often used by Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. The arrest of Second Secretary Stanislav Borisovich Gusev, who has been ordered to leave the U.S. within 10 days, follows last week's arrest in Moscow of Cheri Leberknight, a second secretary at the U.S. embassy there. And her detention followed the earlier arrest of a U.S. Navy officer on charges of selling secrets to Moscow...
...quarreled over how many spies to let into each other's country under diplomatic cover. The Russians feel the U.S. has been stingy; the U.S. says the Russians have been "brazen and blatant," but "we've thwarted" them. The tension broke last week in Moscow with the arrest of Cheri Leberknight, 33, ostensibly a U.S. embassy official but actually a CIA spy, according to the Russians. More schoolmarm than Mata Hari in looks, she was snatched late Monday with "ink tablets for secret correspondence" and equipment for detecting surveillance, says Moscow...
...handed" trying to acquire military secrets. The incident follows the arrest earlier this month by the U.S. military of a Navy code-breaker, Petty Officer First Class Daniel King, 40, who faces charges of passing secrets to Russia. The Russians detained a junior embassy staffer identified by Interfax as Cheri Leberknight, a second secretary of the U.S. embassy's military-political department, and accused her of working for the CIA to procure state secrets. She was later released, and Russia's Foreign Minister Igar Ivanov said he hoped the case would not harm relations with Washington...