Word: mole
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some investigators believe that these prospects could have led to Paisley's suicide, or his disappearance. If so, the implications are tantalizing. Could Paisley have been a mole who thought he was about to be exposed? Was he murdered or spirited away by Soviet agents before he could be unmasked? That would not have been difficult: the Soviet embassy has an estate on the Corsica River, from which its large speedboats could easily reach Paisley's known cruising point near Hooper Island lighthouse in Chesapeake Bay. On the other hand, did the CIA arrange his murder...
...slipped into the fashionable demimonde. He had private money and plenty of leisure. His contemporaries at Cambridge and, later, in London's Bloomsbury circle tolerated and applauded eccentricities. But Forster never wanted notoriety or much attention at all. His retiring manner earned him the nickname "the taupe" (the mole) from Lytton Strachey. Writing his mother about a projected meeting with Henry James, the young author was comically unassuming: "I hear he likes people to be handsome and well dressed, so I shall fail all round." He even construed his repressions as an example of good manners: "However gross...
...Pacepa a "mole...
Instead of trumpeting the defection, U.S. officials have shrouded it in uncharacteristic secrecy. But in West Germany, newspapers are speculating that Pacepa was a CIA "mole" who had patiently burrowed into Rumania's inner circle some years ago. That notion has been firmly, but not convincingly, denied by CIA officials in West Germany, who insist that they had no hand in arranging Pacepa's flight to the West. "This was not a deep penetration operation in the traditional sense," remarked an intelligence source in Washington last week, without further elaboration...
...Pacepa was not a mole, his defection remains a riddle. He was in no known trouble with Ceauşescu, although a clandestine source insinuated that he may have run afoul of the Rumanian President's short-tempered but influential wife. Mole or not, Pacepa may be something less than an outstanding prize for the CIA. "A major defection from Bucharest is almost a contradiction in terms," says a U.S. intelligence expert. Because of its resolute independence from Soviet influence, Rumania is not privy to the most sensitive intelligence traffic between Moscow and its more compliant satellites...