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Back when he was still campaigning for the G.O.P. nomination, Bush remarked to TIME that "anyone who tells you they have Putin figured out is blowing smoke." A year later, Putin remains a mystery. Last week Bush told a visiting business executive that he wondered whether Putin's KGB past would make him even harder to read. "I want to look him in the eye," Bush said, "and see if I can see his soul...
...always; a relatively new statute makes espionage a capital crime if the actual act results in someone?s death. And the government charges against Hanssen mentions two KGB agents who had turned and were working for the U.S. - Hanssen apparently revealed their identities, and they were executed...
...every country in the world. Yet it is a terrible shock to discover an agent spying on his own country and feeding vital information to the enemy. I wonder if all countries will ever have enough respect for one another to render obsolete agencies like the CIA, the KGB and MI6. JAVED ABSAR Leuven, Belgium...
...short time later, a Russian source produced Hanssen's complete KGB dossier--the original, not photocopied, master file on the agency's 15-year relationship with "B." The paper trail of letters and documents stunned even the ferrets in the back room. Here appeared to be incontrovertible evidence that one of their own was responsible for irreparable damage to U.S. security over many years. But that was old stuff: now the agents wanted to catch him in the act, to collect hard evidence that would stand up in court--or persuade Hanssen he was better off confessing...
...Moscow shop, according to retired CIA officers. But as U.S.-Russian relations cooled in the mid-'90s over NATO expansion, U.S. intervention in the Balkans and Russia's brutal war in Chechnya, both sides gradually reverted to their old ways. By the time current President Vladimir Putin, a former KGB officer himself, settled into office early last year, the number of Russian spies in the U.S. was believed to be approaching 1989 levels again. "The Russians are still operating very much in a cold war world," says former CIA chief James Woolsey...