Word: moles
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...wartime stint in the Office of Strategic Services, had a flair for global intrigue and office politics that propelled him into the CIA's upper echelons. During his 20-year tenure as head of counterintelligence at the height of the cold war, Angleton hamstrung the agency with a paranoiac mole hunt that led him to ignore crucial leads provided by KGB defectors -- and even to terrorize staff members with intimidating inquiries. By the time he was sacked in 1974, the hard-drinking, chain-smoking Angleton had so thoroughly undermined the agency's effectiveness that a formal CIA review accused...
...from an Intelligence Committee trip to the Soviet Union, is brandishing a unique souvenir.General Vladimir Kryuchkov, chief of the KGB, gave the third-term Oklahoma Democrat a newly issued series of stamps honoring some of the spy agency's biggest heroes. Included in the set: Kim Philby, the notorious mole in the British intelligence service who defected to Moscow in 1963 and joined the KGB's inner circle. In jest, Senator Boren asked his Soviet host why Philby's equally famous fellow double agents, Guy Burgess and Donald MacLean, had not been given their own stamps. "That's the next...
...shocking story can be told: George Bush is a Democrat in disguise, a mole who has burrowed deep behind enemy lines for the sake of the party of the working stiff. It is the only logical explanation for the President's recent political behavior. Even top Democrats have begun to lift the veil on their mission impossible. "The President has been our best ally," says Paul Tully, political director of the Democratic National Committee. "We're just trying to stay...
...Fiona defected to East Germany and set up shop as a KGB colonel, no less. This breach of marital etiquette caused Samson endless problems -- how to find a suitable nanny for the children, whether to marry his young mistress, how to prove that he himself was not a Soviet mole, and so on -- detailed moodily and lengthily in the two most recent novels of Deighton's double trilogy, Spy Hook and Spy Line...
...most fearsome form of skin cancer is malignant melanoma, which sometimes emerges from an existing mole or simply appears in an area of previously unblemished skin. Melanomas are asymmetrically shaped, usually begin as mottled light brown or black blotches that eventually can turn red, white or blue in spots, become crusty and bleed. They grow rapidly, and once they have expanded to about the thickness of a dime, they have probably metastasized and become lethal...