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...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...
...Instead he delegates it to a swami like Brandon Tartikoff [president of NBC Entertainment]." So why was Tinker hired? Says Klein: "His boss at RCA, Thornton Bradshaw, said Tinker has 'bearing.' I think the stockholders might be happier if he was a hunchback with a bad mole, and put them in No. 1. But even if NBC gets there, it won't mean as much as it used to. Now it's just a bigger slice of a smaller...
...court's account of Prime's life as a "mole" reads like a chapter from a John le Carré novel. According to a statement Prime gave police, he first offered his services to the Soviet Union in 1968, when he was stationed with the Royal Air Force in West Berlin. The Soviets equipped Prime with a miniature camera, a briefcase with a secret compartment, coding and decoding materials, money (a rather modest ?10,000 over the years) and the names of two contacts, Igor and Valya. After leaving the R.A.F., Prime returned to London later that year...
...CAROLINE ADAMS Associate Sports Editor Harvard, 21-10 Columbia, 31-14 Brown, 24-7 Penn, 42-7 Army, 14-3 3-2 12-11 522 DANIEL BENJAMIN Birthday Boy Harvard, 16-7 Yale, 28-17 Brown, 28-21 Penn, 28-7 Army, 31-10 MOROCCO MOLE Dodger Fan Dartmouth, 20-13 Yale, 35-24 Cornell, 3-0 Penn, 34-28 Army...
Worse, revelations that a mole allegedly had penetrated the supersecret British intelligence system promised to cause new problems for the Thatcher government (see following stories). As if all that were not enough, unemployment last week reached a new record of 3,190,621, or 13.4% of the work force...