Word: moles
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...McGuffin, a mole, a master criminal. Many minor characters of menacing mien, dubious loyalty and short life expectancy. Computer and explosive technology to die for (many will). An imperturbably resourceful undercover agent (in this case Tom Cruise) who must, among other strenuous chores, penetrate a supposedly impregnable vault wherein reposes a secret, sacred document that everybody else is pursuing too. And last but not least: a helicopter/train chase ending in the predictable fireball that equally predictably fails even to singe Cruise's beetle brows...
...BEGINNING TO UNDERSTAND how CIA counterintelligence whiz James Jesus Angleton felt during his obsessive Ahab-like hunt in the 1960s for a Soviet mole who had buried himself in the agency. All life becomes reduced to a hall of mirrors, as someone you almost certainly know has constructed a dual identity of shocking duplicity...
...assassin penetrated security to shoot Rabin at point-blank range, so close, one witness said, that "Rabin felt the gun before he felt the bullet." The Israeli press has been filled with leaks disclosing testimony of incompetence and bungling. But it was the revelation that Shin Bet had a mole inside the extremist movement that most grievously wounded the agency. Although the government refuses to confirm the charge and Avishai Raviv, the leader of the extremist Eyal movement and alleged informer, himself denies it, details of his clandestine employment have been flooding the Israeli press. Sources say the 28-year...
...turns out that in the 1980s Moscow began playing the game just as well, creating yet another scandal for the CIA. The disclosure came last week when the agency delivered to Congress its secret report on the damage CIA mole Aldrich Ames did in spying for the Russians from 1985 to 1994. Not only did Ames send 10 of the CIA's most prized Soviet agents to their death, but his secrets also helped Moscow plant a network of at least a half-dozen double agents, who began slipping both real and bogus information to their CIA handlers. But even...
...intelligence unit has its warren. As the drama starts, Jericho has been furloughed from Bletchley because of instability, but is brought back again because his eerily acute mind is needed even if it is haunted and unraveling. Subplots involve a forlorn love interest and the burrowings of a suspected mole, but the real story, and a good one, is whether Jericho can track Enigma through the deep space of his own brain before he melts to ash. Great mathematical ability remains a snark that can't really be hunted in a novel, but the author provides what is possible...