Word: krypteia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John le Carré, 45, is the premier spy novelist of his time. Perhaps of all time. In part, of course, Le Carré's success is due to subject matter. Espionage is an immemorial tradition. In Sparta, undercover agents formed the Krypteia?the Secret Force. Two thousand years later the Krypteia remains forceful, but not quite as secret. Scarcely a month passes without some well-broadcast defection from Eastern Europe; hardly a week goes by without some new charge about intelligence excesses in the West. In the post-Watergate epoch, almost any revelation seems credible: accounts of CIA drug experiments...
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