Word: mole
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inquiry by Michigan Democratic Representative Donald J. Albosta, chairman of the panel that oversees the Ethics in Government Act, was sparked by a new book on Reagan, Gambling with History, by TIME White House Correspondent Laurence Barrett. Barrett wrote that "apparently a Reagan mole in the Carter camp had filched the papers containing the main points" Carter planned to make in the debate. Baker, Stockman, Casey and Communications Director David Gergen, all former Reagan campaign aides, sent Albosta letters explaining what they knew about the papers. Meanwhile, Administration officials debated whether to ask the Justice Department to launch a search...
Barrett's midterm report on the Reagan Administration has already prompted news coverage of unknown or underreported events. A Reagan "mole" obtained President Carter's point-by-point strategy for the candidates' televised debate. Aide Richard Darman spirited away copies of constitutional documents to keep the Cabinet from weighing Reagan's fitness to hold office after he was shot. White House Chief of Staff James Baker, then manager of George Bush's presidential campaign, announced Bush's withdrawal from the California primary without consulting the candidate. But the book offers more than nuggets...
...diplomat who with his fellow Cambridge graduate Guy Burgess was at the center of Britain's most infamous spy scandal in the past half-century; of cancer; in Moscow. Recruited at college in the 1930s with his lover Burgess by Anthony Blunt, then a don, Maclean was a mole in the British embassy in Washington, where he had access to highly classified Allied documents, including U.S. atomic secrets. Tipped by another Soviet mole that they were suspected of spying, Maclean and Burgess escaped from England to the U.S.S.R. in 1951. "My God, Maclean knew everything!" exploded then Secretary...
...sound undermine his efforts to make sense. An example: "Thus one who lobbies expertly for the rights of female derelicts might be called a shopping-bag-lady knifethrower." He is usually most effective when simplest, writing blunt, mock-macho prose. Recounting in January the confession of a former Communist "mole," American Aristocrat Michael Straight, Safire cracked, "How delicious it must have been for a Red under the bed to deride Joe McCarthy for looking for Reds under the bed." In a column labeled "The Midterm Crisis," Safire counseled: "Mr. Reagan must dispense with his I-am-not-a-shnook defensiveness...
...Soviet agents in Ottawa, one Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer, who remains anonymous, seemed an ideal "mole" for penetrating the Canadian security service. They wooed him assiduously. Details for secret meetings were passed inside a hollow stick or in a specially designed pack of Marlboro cigarettes. A piece of colored tape strategically placed on a pillar in a shopping center would also signal a rendezvous. Over a nine-month period the Mountie received $30,500; then Canadian police blew the whistle. The case proved to be a classic counterespionage sting. After the Soviets tried to recruit him, the Mountie...