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Despite the war, Iraq and Iraq had maintained low-level diplomatic relations...
While military lawyers were considering possible charges to bring against Lonetree -- including espionage, which carries a possible death sentence -- the situation served to illustrate the continuing problem of security breaches by low-level personnel. Like Lonetree, Navy Yeoman Michael Walker, 24, convicted last year of sending classified material from the aircraft carrier Nimitz to his father, Soviet Spy John Walker, had easy access to sensitive documents: he too was on the burn-bag squad...
...apart from providing massive aid indefinitely. Says a Salvadoran banker: "The poor are a lot less afraid of Communism than the wealthy, and it is the poor who are suffering." U.S. policymakers are mindful of that assessment. To counter the implicit threat, Duarte, whose government is reportedly plagued by low-level official corruption, must not only obtain additional money and political support abroad, but also somehow revive the stalled peace talks to regain public confidence. Even those steps may not be enough. A genuinely brave man who most believe represents the best hope for democracy in El Salvador, Duarte...
Sitting in the backseat of a U.S. marshal's car, Ronald Pelton betrayed little emotion last week as he arrived for the start of his espionage trial in a Baltimore courthouse. For 14 years, Pelton worked in a low-level computer job at the top secret National Security Agency. He had a knowledge of Russian, access to sensitive intelligence data and, in later years, money troubles. After Pelton left the NSA in 1979, according to federal authorities, he started selling information to the Soviets. Accused spies like Pelton have been a cause of growing concern to the U.S. intelligence community...
...scene: Peking 1964. French Embassy Accountant Bernard Boursicot becomes enamored of a graceful Chinese opera singer named Shi Peipu. She returns his affection, bears him a child and induces him to engage in a little low-level spying on behalf of the People's Republic...