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...GETS A NEW REP Remember how the CIA used to be a covert operation? Well, the spooks are a lot more cordial than in the cold war days. Not only does the CIA website have games for kids, but the agency's also getting into e-tail--a 1996 map of Iraq costs $7. Last month Langley played host to its first-ever gala premiere, for the TV movie In the Company of Spies, where CIA head George Tenet rubbed shoulders with actor Tom Berenger (center, with his wife). Next month the agency's new venture-capital firm...
...meat to cover its odor and re-dating foods. A North Carolina jury awarded Food Lion $5.5 million (later reduced to $350,000), reasoning that although the allegations were true, the undercover methods used to report the story (lying on job applications to get in the door, shooting covert footage inside the store and baiting other workers into doing and saying damaging things against their employer) were wrong. The U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that although Food Lion lost $1.3 billion when its stock plunged the week the segment aired, the loss was not the result...
...gave permission for former agents to speak at the meeting, the main Russian contribution came from Oleg Kalugin, a former major general of the KGB, the Soviet Union's intelligence service, who, because he has broken ranks with his former bosses, brought only his memories. Adding a patina of covert authenticity, the bulk of the conference took place at Teufelsberg, a once secret complex built on an artificial mountain in a forest near the outskirts of West Berlin. Surmounted by the eerie globes of eavesdropping radio antennas, Teufelsberg was a huge cold war spy station. (These days...
...invasion of Czechoslovakia, he set about copying in longhand the highly sensitive files in his care and stuffing his notes in metal cases beneath his dacha. By his retirement in 1984 he had a trove of the KGB's deepest secrets, including agent names and accounts of assassinations and covert actions. In 1992 he arranged for British intelligence to whisk him, his family and his trunks of paper to safety. Spy hunters and prosecutors got first crack at the papers, and according to Mitrokhin's co-author, Cambridge University historian Christopher Andrew, a dozen probes of old spies are still...
Inside Russia?s military, Stepashin is still reviled for sending a covert team into Chechnya during the conflict there and then abandoning them when the operation went sour. Which may explain why Stepashin, after flying to the Dagestani capital Makhachkala under Yeltsin's orders and meeting with local officials, had very little to say on strategic matters. But he?d better have the military behind him now. The fighting, which intensified early Saturday when the militants (who may in fact be Chechens) crossed into Dagestan and began taking up positions around local villages, is the worst in the region since...