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Albright and her senior State Department colleagues sat down for a full-dress CIA briefing on the Caspian last August. The agency had set up a secret task force to monitor the region's politics and gauge its wealth. Covert CIA officers, some well-trained petroleum engineers, had traveled through southern Russia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to sniff out potential oil reserves. When the policymakers heard the agency's report, Albright concluded that working to mold the area's future was "one of the most exciting things that...
...group is clearly treading a fineline. Insurance limits who is able to drive the group, yet the guidelines remain fuzzy. But there have been no safety problems in the past, and the admittedly laid-back club members frequently joke about their insurance-induced status as a covert outing club...
...Science and Technology Directorate has a bland enough name. But within the CIA, the covert operatives of S&T are the most secretive and closed-mouthed of the agency's spies, with good reason. While billion-dollar signal-intelligence satellites vacuum up phone conversations from space, it is the S&T's techno-spooks on the ground who are cracking encryption codes and breaking into buildings overseas to plant bugs or parking themselves outside in vans to listen in on phone calls surreptitiously with high-tech electronic gear. No wonder the CIA heaved a collective shudder last week when...
...expertise in penetrating foreign communications, Groat practically invited the FBI investigation that led to his arrest. A 13-year veteran who had worked on numerous covert operations overseas, Groat had been put on administrative leave in 1993 from his $70,000-a-year job on account of poor performance. After the CIA finally decided to let him go in 1996, prosecutors allege that Groat tried to get the agency to pay him more than $500,000 in hush money to keep him from passing to foreign governments the secrets he remembered. The agency refused to pay and eventually turned over...
Soon Ho was roaming the earth as a covert agent for Moscow. Disguised as a Chinese journalist or a Buddhist monk, he would surface in Canton, Rangoon or Calcutta--then vanish to nurse his tuberculosis and other chronic diseases. As befit a professional conspirator, he employed a baffling assortment of aliases. Again and again, he was reported dead, only to pop up in a new place. In 1929 he assembled a few militants in Hong Kong and formed the Indochinese Communist Party. He portrayed himself as a celibate, a pose calculated to epitomize his moral fiber...