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...Clyde Beatty's cheesy jungle movies. George Mendonca went to Rhode Island after the hurricane of '38 and stayed to become a topiary gardener. Ray Mendez, a photographer, had a high school fascination with insects; 20 years later, he learned that there were mammals--naked mole rats--living in colonies like insects, took photos of them, brought them home. Rodney Brooks is an M.I.T. scientist who loved to build things; now he makes robots whose movements are not programmed but follow the machine's "nature...
...start. For the rest of the film they are identified by their eccentric clothing (Ray's plaid shirt and butterfly bow tie) or coiffure (Dave's gravity-defying orange comb-over). And they are defined by their jobs; we think of them simply as "the lion tamer" or "the mole-rat guy," and watch their eyes spark as they speak of the work that lights their lives...
...scandal. But apparently both countries are still stealing secrets from each other. Last week the Washington Post revealed that the National Security Agency's electronic snoopers, which had been listening in on the phone conversation of an Israeli intelligence officer, uncovered tantalizing evidence that Israel may have a mole even better placed than Pollard was: a senior U.S. official code-named "Mega" who may be passing on U.S. diplomatic intelligence...
...only evidence the FBI has of another mole is the intercepted phone conversation. During the call, the Israeli intelligence officer in Washington and his superior in Tel Aviv are discussing how they can get their hands on a Jan. 16 letter then-Secretary of State Warren Christopher wrote to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. The private letter spelled out U.S. guarantees for Israeli troop withdrawals from the West Bank. The Israeli official in Washington suggested going to Mega for a copy of the letter, but his superior rejected the idea. "This is not something we use Mega for," the Israeli supervisor...
ALDRICH AMES CIA officers point out angrily that while the bureau has done well catching spies, it has a poor record of detecting them in the first place. In the Ames case, it was the CIA that eventually identified Ames as the mole and turned him over to the FBI to build the case for his arrest. Ames began his career as a mole literally under the watch of the FBI. In April 1985 he began visiting the Soviet embassy in Washington to pass secrets. FBI cameras that are constantly trained on the Russian embassy from a nearby building recorded...