Word: moles
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Rick Ames is charged with being nothing less than the worst mole in the history of the Central Intelligence Agency. He is accused of selling to the Soviets (and later the Russians) top secret information, and along the way, of selling out about ten American spies who were summarily executed by Moscow...
...convinced was Angleton that there was a mole in the inner sanctum of the Agency that he effectively halted all espionage efforts in Russia, fearing that whatever information could be gleaned would find its way back to Moscow via the mole...
...younger Ames' interest in spycatching may have been stoked by his father, a pipe-smoking member of the CIA counterintelligence staff created and run by the monomaniacal mole hunter James Jesus Angleton. But Carleton had an undistinguished career tracking communist parties and front groups. After he retired from the agency in the 1960s, few remembered much about him beyond his penchant for taking long naps at his desk. Still, the father, now dead, left one important legacy to the CIA: his son, who in 1962 signed on as a trainee...
...Residents. No surprise that the first CD-ROM from the eyeball-headed San Francisco group should be called Freak Show -- a virtual version of their 1990 set. The user enters a carnival big top to see and hear such freaks as Harry the Head, Herman the Human Mole, Wanda the Worm Woman, Jello Jack the Boneless Boy and Bouncing Benny the Bump. Later the user can wander backstage and sneak into the freaks' trailers, flip through their photo albums, read their love letters, watch music videos on their TV sets. Animated by Jim Ludtke, Freak Show has an artfully eerie...
...MOLE: Optically challenged insectivore