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There are, you might say, at least two kinds of Le Carre admirers: the official reader, who turns the pages avidly to follow the byzantine and brilliant interlacing of plots and identities and places; and the covert reader, who reads between the lines for Le Carre's searching and intense examinations into the counterfeit gentleman, and the divided heart of Englishmen. The official reader responds to the master storyteller whose narratives purr by with the smooth whoosh of a Bentley; the secret reader finds him the most interesting English novelist alive for his discussion of the quest for absolutes...
...government is lucky to have such people; they take every outrageous government blunder as evidence of a brilliant covert strategy. In the case of Sheik Rahman, the government had no strategy, covert, overt or otherwise...
...case of Sheik Rahman, the government had no strategy, covert, overt or otherwise...
...ground, satellite photos and electronic intercepts, which is used to apply pressure on importing and exporting nations. In some instances Washington quietly asks a friendly capital to stop certain exports because they are being diverted to a weapons program. In other cases the U.S. and its allies sometimes use covert action to halt the shipments...
President George Bush signed an intelligence finding authorizing covert CIA action to disrupt the supply of dangerous weapons or components. How that authority has been used is secret, but an official in Washington confirms that "it has been used. Things have been prevented from getting from one place to another." Even so, says another official, controls over exports "cannot prevent but can only make it more difficult to produce nuclear weapons...