Word: moles
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...many letters he allegedly sent to Moscow, Hanssen claimed that what he really wanted was to be a double agent, like the British intellectual turned mole Kim Philby. "I'd decided on this course when I was 14. I'd read Philby's book," he wrote (although Philby's autobiography was not published until 1968, when Hanssen was 24) in a rambling discourse last March to the SVR, Russia's foreign-arm successor to the Soviet-era KGB. "My only hesitations were my security concerns under uncertainty. I hate uncertainty...
...Washington. Inside was a second missive marked "Do not open. Take this envelope unopened to Viktor I. Cherkashin." Hanssen knew well who Cherkashin was: Moscow's chief counterspy at the Soviet embassy, a KGB colonel adept at handling double agents. (Cherkashin was already masterminding the activities of CIA mole Aldrich Ames, who was not uncovered until 1994.) Inside that second envelope was an anonymous offer to send a trove of classified papers to the KGB in exchange for $100,000, and a proposal to keep on selling similar secrets. "They are from certain of the most sensitive and highly compartmented...
...Take the other night. A few minutes before George W. Bush's quasi-State of the Union speech (a speech that was given its inflated status by the networks), 51 million viewers were watching "The Mole," "JAG," "Three Sisters" and "Titus" on ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox. The minute the four networks switched over to the interior of the House for Bush's speech, they lost 15 million viewers. And they continued to lose them during the rest of the speech...
...right side of this issue - as long as artists keep depending on Big Business to find them a paying audience, Big Business deserves a cut of the loot - but that doesn't make it any less fun to watch them play corporate Whack-a-Mole with the Internet rebels...
...secret of "Survivor." Seeing these anonymous hardbodies cavort in Belize, you don't feel their relationships are in danger, or that there's much worth saving anyway. "Survivor"'s Tribal Councils were engrossing because, strategy or not, the votes were personal. (Likewise, ABC's reality entry, "The Mole," which debuted Tuesday, is a nice enough game, but too cold and complicated to suck you in.) You'd hardly care if anyone did hook up with one of the Fox sluts, male or female...