Word: moles
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Washington, D.C., Circuit Court against the three federal agencies they say irresponsibly ruined their reputations. Wen Ho Lee, in jail pending trial on 59 charges that he compromised sensitive military documents while working at Los Alamos, was the subject of a very public investigation into whether he was the mole who gave China design secrets about the W-88 warhead. But Lee says he was singled out for investigation because he's Asian and was maliciously painted as a patsy by the FBI and the Justice and Energy departments to draw attention away from their flawed security. Lee charges that...
...danger, and wouldn't emerge from a bathroom - despite entreaties from rescue workers - as the apartment became engulfed in flames. But will the public accept a tidy conclusion to this veritable Greek tragedy? Theories have already emerged on the Internet painting Maher as a Lee Harvey Oswald-like Russian mole. Another, probably closer to the truth, has Maher trying to ingratiate himself with the sickly billionaire, thus finding a place in his will. Expect a movie of the week at a cable station near...
...deadpans. "And in Mister Roger's neighborhood they're rendered even more sinister because they're represented as being goody-goody." In the rock opera, they're cutting the crap, and doing it straight-take sinister. An evil triumvirate consisting of the Purple Panda, King Friday, and Eichmann the Mole end up killing everyone else. Vaux adds, "What better musical form to create utter evil but 12-tone...
...spies produced, the more their bosses wanted. "Demand just kept growing," Sichel said. One of the early CIA exploits was Operation Gold, an ingenious tunnel under East Berlin that was used to tap Soviet telephone lines. Unknown to the CIA at the time, however, George Blake, a Russian mole in the British secret service, revealed plans for the tunnel to Moscow Center even before it was built. Blithely, the Soviets waited a year to fill it in, to help protect Blake's identity...
...based in a country where capital is flying out of the country at hyper-speed and allegations of kickbacks and corruption permeate the government all the way to the office of President Boris Yeltsin. Those suspicions have led to speculation that Yeltsin's ongoing game of Whack-a-Mole with his cabinet is an attempt to ensure that a friendly, non-prosecutorial government will succeed him. So far, there are no allegations of wrongdoing by the Bank of New York, but the institution has suspended two executives believed to be connected to the case. One of them, Lucy Edwards, spoke...